Long before the Covid pandemic swept across higher education, I focused on globalization on my campus and researched COIL/IE to help my students interact with a larger world. I teach history and government at a two year open enrollment college in Fort Worth, Texas and my classes are gateway courses for all students who enter the institution. Students range from 15 year-olds (early college high school students earning dual credit) to 70 year old retirees and as an open enrollment institution there are no minimum test scores or such for entering students, so some are in reading comprehension…