A Long Way from Madison

When Elizabeth Anderson ’07 shot this picture of a hiker walking up sand dunes in Namibia, she wasn’t just creating the first-prize image for that year’s Study Abroad Photo Contest. She was also expanding the horizon of her UW education to include something called “global competence.” We’re told that global competence will be essential for today’s grads, but what is it, exactly? As ten people, and you’re likely to get a dozen different answers. On Wisconsin sent Masarah Van Eyck to try to nail down a definition.