About Global Initiatives
We support Miami University's commitment to advancing global learning. In fact, we foster quality experiences for students, faculty, and guests surrounding scholarship, and teaching between different cultures.
#YouAreWelcomeHere
#YouAreWelcomeHere is a welcome message from U.S. higher education to international students around the world. Miami supports this campaign and wants all international students to know that they are welcome at Miami University and in Oxford, Ohio.
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Who We Are and What We Do
Our Mission
Global Initiatives promotes the dynamic, comprehensive internationalization of the University through the infusion of multicultural and comparative perspectives in scholarship, teaching, and service. Support focuses on user- and constituent-friendly services with a commitment to efficiency and acts as the connective tissue for all internationalization realms.
Our Vision
We drive internationalization activities and networks at Miami University through collaborative engagement with local and global communities. We seek to transform the learning of students, faculty, and staff through educational opportunities across borders and disciplines and provide outstanding service.
Core Values
We support an interdisciplinary, inquiry-driven environment in which the learner’s strengths and interests are recognized and expanded through welcoming, personal, values-based, collaborative, and quality driven approaches and meaningful global opportunities.
We demonstrate respect for one another and the community we serve by: valuing inclusiveness and diversity, trusting in one another's capabilities, and treating others as we wish to be treated.
We act with honesty and adhere to the highest standards of moral and ethical values and principles through our personal and professional behavior. We expect our actions to be consistent with our words, and our words to be consistent with our intentions. We accept our responsibilities and subject ourselves to the highest standards of public trust. We hold ourselves accountable for our words and our actions.
- We are dedicated to the mission of Miami University.
- We are committed to being flexible and adaptable.
- We follow through tasks, issues and challenges to effective and timely resolution.
- We provide proactive, quality, competent, user-friendly, and reliable support and service.
- We are committed to a spirit of teamwork, relying on one another to reach our organizational potential.
Our Services
Need assistance? Explore our services to see what we can do.
Passport and Photo Services
Book an appointment and take care of a wide range of passport services on the Oxford campus.
Services are available to anyone needing to apply for a new passport book/card or those who need to apply for their first adult passport/card. You do not need to be affiliated with Miami University.
Email global@MiamiOH.edu or call 513-529-8600 for an appointment.
Translation Services
As the hub for global support services at Miami University, Global Initiatives helps to address needs for translation and interpretation across campus. Our staff are available to assist Miami University faculty, staff and students with translation or interpretation needs related to university business. For assistance, please reach out to global@MiamiOH.edu.
Students needing an academic transcript translated into English can refer to:
Advertise in MacMillan Hall
Learn how you can promote your program or event on the digital display in the lobby of MacMillan Hall.
Reserve a Flag From MacMillan Hall
Add to your next event by borrowing a flag from Global Initiatives. With more than 100 flags in our collection, we're proud to display a diverse range of countries in MacMillan Hall. Each flag represents a country of origin for our past and present international students. Departments around campus as well as Miami University’s student organizations are welcome to borrow our flags for display purposes at events and functions throughout the year.
Our Initiatives
Take your education to a global level. Explore our initiatives and learn how to get involved.
International Education Week
International Education Week (IEW) is a program of the U.S. Departments of State and Education that promotes the importance of global learning. Each November, we invite you to welcome to explore and engage in various campus experiences featuring multiple cultures to becoming a more aware global citizen.
MiamiConnects: Virtual Global Learning
Sign up for a global learning project with MiamiConnects and collaborate with faculty and students worldwide to create a course, module, or program to expand international learning.
You are Welcome Here
#YouAreWelcomeHere is a welcome message from U.S. higher education to international students around the world. It is a campaign designed to affirm that our institutions are diverse, friendly, safe, and committed to the development of all students.
Fulbright Scholarship
Founded in 1946, the Fulbright Program is the premier international exchange program of the U.S. Department of State Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs. Its mission to promote intercultural understanding through citizen exchange is achieved through funding graduate study, teaching and research in more than 140 countries. Programs are available for U.S. students, U.S. scholars, foreign students, and foreign scholars. More than 100 Miami University students and faculty have received Fulbright grants.
Partnerships
Miami is an international university and is committed to expanding our global reach—virtually and physically. Developing global partnerships that enhance higher education and increase learning opportunities is a priority for the Office of Global Initiatives and an objective of the Miami 2020 Plan.
Contact Global Initiatives
214 MacMillan Hall
531 E. Spring St.
Oxford, OH 45056
