NO ZOOM GLOOM: FROM LOS ANGELES TO SEOUL

While spring semester study abroad and global immersion trips have been canceled due to the ongoing pandemic, Tom Plate, clinical professor and Distinguished Scholar of Asian and Pacific studies, is continuing to facilitate cross-cultural learning experiences for Loyola Marymount University students. From opposite sides of the Pacific,  LMU students collaborate with Yonsei University students…

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CORONAVIRUS CHRONICLES: ‘HOW WE HAD A GOOD INTERNATIONAL-RELATIONS CLASS ANYHOW’

ZHI JIAO DANIELLE GOH WRITES — As news of different countries locking down and closing their borders increases, the online world, however, has been more connected than ever. In particular, higher-education institutions around the world are aiming to short-circuit the developing pandemic by transforming their classroom pedagogy into smart, virtual,…

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PBS PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE AT LMU: ON CHINA, TOM STEYER GETS THE QUESTION BETTER THAN ANYONE

At Thursday night’s internationally televised Democratic President debate, held on the gorgeous and sprawling west side Los Angeles campus of Loyola Marymount University, the largest historically Catholic university on America’s West Coast, the crucial topic of U.S. relations with China surfaced mid-debate. Two of the more interesting comments from the…

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