We are Dr. Sue Langford, Academic Partnership Manager, Cornwall Business School, Falmouth University Cornwall, UK and Blaise DePaolo MFA, Associate Professor of Sculpture, Morgan State University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA. We created and team taught a virtual international exchange that brought Morgan community art students and Falmouth social action students together in cyber space for four weeks in the summer of 2021. When the pandemic forced academia to pivot to online education a whole new realm of possibilities opened up for student interaction across borders. Without the expense of travel, and with state-of-the-art video conferencing, Morgan State University, an HBCU (Historically Black College or University) and Falmouth University, a TWI (Traditionally White Institution) students came together to work in teams to develop either a social enterprise proposal or a public service announcement. Our collaboration brought science, science fiction, art, sustainability, social justice, and social entrepreneurship together, all while widening the aperture of the national lens to the international lens for our students.

Professor E.Blaise DePaolo MFA
Associate Professor of Sculpture
Morgan State University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA



Dr. Sue Langford
Academic Partnership Manager
Cornwall Business School,  Falmouth University Cornwall, UK

In Praise of Professional Development:
Both Falmouth and Morgan State University were prepared to meet the challenges posed by Covid. One of Morgan’s responses was to offer an opportunity to participate in a six-week online training course given by DePaul University in Chicago, Illinois. The course provided a roadmap of best practices in conducting an International Virtual Exchange experience. Without the training the process by which the collaboration was conducted would not have been as seamless as it was, given we were pioneering international virtual exchanges at our respective institutions.