Growing up just 20 minutes from the West Virginia University campus in Morgantown, Finance major Alexandria Spiker was immersed in WVU’s “Let’s Go” culture – an idea she fully embraced. With the support of the Chambers College, Spiker has used her Mountaineer mentality to go far beyond city limits.
It all started her freshman year, in Spiker’s BCOR 199 class. Dr. David Dawley, director of the Robbins Center for Global Business & Strategy, shared the importance of being aware and engaged with the world as a business professional through faculty-led short-term study abroad trips “in countries like Bahrain, Costa Rica, China, Dubai, India, Ireland, Italy, Greece, Guatemala, Kenya, Nepal, Panama, Thailand and the United Kingdom.”