For most of higher education’s history, a global education has looked the same: a traditional undergraduate spending a semester abroad in London or Barcelona. But that model leaves out the working adults, career changers, and first-generation students for whom picking up and leaving for months is simply not possible. If global perspective is essential to how students learn and lead, why is access to it still so narrow?

In this role-reversal episode of Radical Cooperation, Stephanie Bihr, Associate Director of Communications at The Community Solution, again turns the microphone on Dr. Michael Horowitz. Their conversation centers on global perspective, one of the seven superpowers of radical cooperation from Dr. Horowitz’s book, The Community Solution: the Power of Radical Cooperation in Higher Education. Drawing on his own path as the child of immigrants and decades of building higher education programs, he shares how the system reimagined study abroad for adult learners. From a first Spanish immersion trip to Mexico to multi-institution courses in Germany, Cuba, and Japan, Dr. Horowitz and Stephanie discuss why the exchange always runs both ways.

Rather than treating global learning as a luxury reserved for the few, this episode focuses on the many ways institutions can open students’ minds to the world, whether through a single week abroad, welcoming international students, or building partnerships across borders. It is a candid, wide-ranging look at why a global perspective keeps both students and institutions strong.

In this episode:

• Why the traditional semester-abroad model overlooks working adults, and how to redesign it
• How a single embedded week in another country can reshape how students see the world
• What pairing law and psychology students in Germany revealed about learning across disciplines
• How international students, immigrants, and cross-border partnerships bring the world to an institution. 
• What American higher education can learn from how other countries teach, eat, and train physicians