
Mar 27, 2025
Global classrooms: Madagascar
The Lafayette Initiative for Malagasy Education rang in its 15th year over the winter interim.

The Lafayette Initiative for Malagasy Education rang in its 15th year over the winter interim.

Twenty-two students traveled to one of the most geologically active landscapes on the planet, New Zealand.

Twenty-three students spent the interim in Peru.

Students spent the break hopping trains between Poland, the Czech Republic, and Germany.

From Hawaiian volcanoes to Senegalese cities, these students and their faculty and staff mentors had a chance to explore educational opportunities.

In London and Belfast, 18 students explored the topics of race, gender, and colonialism through visiting cultural sites and analyzing related media.

Students had a chance to learn how processes, both technical and nontechnical, make the world go round.

El Valle Sagrado de los Incas and Cusco were the temporary homes of 24 students who spent three weeks exploring the modern lives of Indigenous groups in…

For over a decade, Lafayette students have been traveling to Madagascar to mentor Malagasy students in preparation for pursuing higher education in the…

Eighteen students spent three weeks learning about the experience of modernity in a West African city.