[img_inline align=”right” src=”http://padnws01.mcmaster.ca/images/aucc_scotiabank_award.jpg” caption=”Pictured at today’s event, from left, Robert Best, vice-president, National Affairs, AUCC, Imre Szeman, director of the Institute on Globalization and the Human Condition and Suzan Snaggs-Wilson, branch manager, Scotiabank.”]The Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada (AUCC) and Scotiabank awarded McMaster with a Scotiabank-AUCC Award for Excellence in Internationalization today.

McMaster is being applauded for its Institute on Globalization and the Human Condition (IGHC) which spans the three university functions of teaching, research and community service, reaching out into the community through partnerships with NGOs.

The 2004 Scotiabank-AUCC Award for Excellence in Internationalization focuses on preparing students for a global future. In making their selection, the jury was looking for the most transformative of initiatives that integrate a number of innovative approaches so to have a strong and positive effect on students' learning and a broad impact in the particular institutional context. The IGHC has a significant impact on the university because it involves all parts of McMaster, from undergraduates and graduates to young researchers and faculty. The jury felt that McMaster University's Institute on Globalization and the Human Condition has led to the development of specific programs on globalization that promise to have long-term impact, and it has acted as a catalyst for many other international initiatives within the university.