Yvonne Allen

Chairperson, Division of Professional Education at Notre Dame College of Ohio

If you want to change the world, learn from it first.

As a student, I saw that there were other methods of belief, other cultural systems that served people, different goals to pursue. Seeing the world helped me develop the willingness to broaden my perspective.

I would encourage students to study abroad. My daughter did that during her time at Allegheny. She studied in Quito, Ecuador for a semester and then did a Semester at Sea. It gave her the tools to gain new interests. To be curious. She became a bigger, better person because of it.