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Monthly Archives: July 2010
SIT Study Abroad alum wins Fulbright to return to the Balkans
Sarajane Blair studied abroad on the SIT Balkans program in the spring 2009 semester. Recently awarded a Fulbright grant to return to the region, Sarajane discusses the deep impact the SIT program has had on her academic and personal life.
SIT students revel in historic World Cup, life in South Africa
Tori Raymond, a sports management major at the University of Michigan, scored a lifetime of memories when she experienced Africa’s first World Cup during SIT Study Abroad’s South Africa: Globalization, Sports, and Development program. The six-week summer program brought Raymond and 34 other American undergraduates to Durban, South Africa, where they lived with a Zulu-speaking [...]
International Exchange Highlights Power of the Press
World Learning hosted journalists from China, Saudi Arabia, Zimbabwe and 20 other countries for nearly three weeks in June as part of a Visitor Exchange Program that examined the role of responsible investigative journalism in a democracy. A major highlight of the exchange, funded by the US State Department’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs [...]
CONTACT Participants Join Global Network of Peacebuilders
In June, peacebuilders from over 75 countries attended the three-week long Conflict Transformation Across Borders (CONTACT) program at World Learning’s Brattleboro campus. The CONTACT program happens every June in Vermont, and every December in Nepal. Participants have the opportunity to become part of a global network of peacebuilders who share stories, ideas, theories and experiences. Click below [...]
Keeping an Open Mind Half a Century Later: Experimenters Celebrate 50th Reunion
 Written by Jane Helmchen, Experiment in International Living Germany, 1960. The summer of 1960: Ten American college girls, all of us 20 years old and going to Europe for the first time, meet each other and our leader, Nancy Wintsch, shortly before we board the Experiment ship “Irpinia” in Quebec. On board we become friends [...]
SIT alum earns coveted fellowship to support Kenyan girls school
World Learning congratulates SIT Study Abroad alum Jessica Posner and her friend Kennedy Odede, whose efforts to educate girls in a Kenyan slum has earned them a 2010 Echoing Green Fellowship. Their project beat out those of more than 1,000 applicants for the fellowship, which supports the work of emerging social entrepreneurs who respond to the world’s most pressing challenges. [...]
SIT Study Abroad offers inside look at World Cup in South Africa
 The chance to view a world-class soccer match and experience a home stay in a Zulu township are what makes the 2010 FIFA World Cup experience different for SIT Study Abroad students. Several students on the South Africa: Globalization, Sports, and Development program have recently been featured in their local newspapers describing their unique [...]
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