Global Education At ICC
Global Education plays an important role in this small northern Minnesota community college. Every Fall, about 20 Danish science and technology students come to ICC from late August until the middle of October. The Danish group spends its first few days in the United States visiting New York City and after arriving in Grand Rapids they spend the first weekend with American host families. The group also goes on several road trips including the Badlands of South Dakota, Duluth, Minnesota, and a Minnesota Twins professional baseball game. The following spring, about 20 ICC students go to Svendborg, Denmark and take classes at HTX Svendborg from early March to early May. ICC students receive college credit and have an opportunity to travel around Europe.
In 2008, forty-two members of the United States and Denmark Mass Communication Delegation, from ICC, went to the Twin Cities on Tuesday, September 2, 2008 for the 2008 Republican National Convention in St. Paul, Minnesota. According to participants, which included 26 Danish exchange students, the most memorable part of the one-day trip was observing the massive security presence. The delegation also visited the Rally for the Republic event organized by the Campaign for Liberty at the Target Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota where they heard Jesse Ventura speak.
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