“…According to Hachtmann (2012), the globalized world presents opportunities and challenges for students and requires global competency and intercultural communication skills. Several markers used for evaluating global competency in higher education include substantive knowledge, intercultural communication skills, openness, fluency in a different language, tolerance of ambiguity, awareness of issues facing the community, cross-cultural empathy, and knowledge of the in-group and the out-group (Donatelli, Yngve, Miller, & Ellis, 2005;Engleberg et al, 2017;Olsen & Kroeger, 2001).…”