The Intercultural Living Exchange, a UMBC’s living and learning community, is an innovative academic living exchange program that incorporates linguistic and cultural components while promoting values of diversity, and sustainability by student-faculty interaction and service learning, three vital elements in the fostering of student success at UMBC (click here for mission statement and learning outcomes).

The program, a residential community in Harbor Hall comprised of undergraduate and graduate students, promotes linguistic proficiency through the immersion of students in the language and culture of one of these clusters: Chinese, Japanese, French, and Spanish. It also fosters the development of intercultural communication and social entrepreneurship skills viewed as essential for success in today’s ever-integrating world.