University of Notre Dame Provost Thomas Burish speaks of the recent Mumbai trip and why Indian students are ideal for his campus

Tell us about the Mumbai Global Center.
Notre Dame created the Mumbai Global Center in 2016 to facilitate faculty and scholarly exchanges, student visits, and faculty lectures and conferences. The center serves as a hub of information and activity for Notre Dame scholars, students and alumni in India. Notre Dame selected Mumbai as the location because we have many alumni there and it is among the most international cities in India. Since its creation, the center has recruited Indian students for Notre Dame’s international summer study programmes, which are designed to recruit students from around the world. The two most prominent of these are the International Leadership Enrichment and Development (iLED) for high school students and the International Summer Undergraduate Research Experience (iSURE) programme which brings international undergrads to Notre Dame for research. More than ÂÂu00c2u0099" students from ÂÂu00c2u0095ÂÂu00c2u0095Indian high schools in India have participated in the iLED program since ""ÂÂu00c2u0095ÂÂu00c2u0096ÂÂu00c2u009a and this year we changed the schedule to allow more students from India to attend. Thus far, eight undergraduate students from three universities in India have participated in the iSURE at our South Bend, Indiana campus.