Since 2005, North Carolina native and SIT Graduate Institute alumni Sara LeHoullier, has been exploring Madagascar from top to bottom as a volunteer, a researcher, and an intrepid traveler. As any true traveler, LeHoullier enjoys cramming into a rickety bush taxi, dining on unfamiliar animal parts, and trekking through untouched rainforests bursting with biodiversity. Her [...]
Monthly Archives: September 2010
CONTACT participants honor International Day of Peace
A group of students, faculty and staff from the SIT Graduate Institute came together Tuesday to support peacebuilding efforts around the globe as part of an event marking September 21 as the International Day of Peace. Supporters gathered to sign a peace banner and engage in discussions about peacebuilding strategies, conflict analysis, and the meaning [...]
SIT Study Abroad alumna awarded Fulbright
SIT Study Abroad alumna describes how her experience studying abroad in Argentina positioned her for future academic success, including receiving a Fulbright grant. A graduate of the University of Colorado at Boulder, Nicole Nejad participated in the Argentina: Regional Integration, Development, and Social Change program in the spring of 2006. “I can still feel the [...]
Searching for "China the Unscripted" with the Experiment
Andy Cunningham, a 2010 Experiment group leader to China, recently sent us this digital story about his summer. Cunningham first traveled abroad as an Experimenter to China in 2002, and this seminal experience lead him to study Chinese at Duke, and later co-found WISER, a non-profit NGO that promotes girls’ education in Kenya. “It was an opportunity of [...]
Becoming a more effective teacher and teacher trainer
More and more, teachers are asked to take on responsibility for supervising and/or mentoring other teachers, often with no training or support. How can we supervise others in a way that actually helps them, and that feels honest and comfortable to us as well? In the same vein, giving feedback to those teachers who we [...]
Witnessing Peace and Conflict in the Balkans
For Orli Fridman, the recent conflict in the Balkans provides an exciting, yet challenging backdrop for her work as Academic Director of SIT Study Abroad Serbia, Bosnia, and Kosovo: Peace and Conflict Studies in the Balkans. The semester-long program engages undergraduate students interested in peace and conflict studies, history, international relations, and political science with [...]
Back to school with World Learning
Hundreds of students from the United States and around the world will embark upon a truly global academic experience as they begin their fall semester with a World Learning program. Students from the SIT Graduate Institute and the Global Undergraduate Exchange Program, both programs of World Learning, will engage world-class educators, interact with diverse classmates, [...]
Family matters: An SIT Study Abroad Loyola student and her homestay family
Sidra Zaidi, a junior at Loyola University Chicago, writes about the powerful impression her homestay family is having on her study abroad experience. Sidra is studying on the SIT Study Abroad Switzerland: International Studies, Multilateral Diplomacy, and Social Justice Program. As a double major in International Studies and Political Science and a minor in French, [...]
Learning About the Human Bond in Thailand
Paloma Martinez, a native of Florida, traveled with the Experiment to Thailand last summer. Though Thailand was not her first choice destination, Martinez quickly adapted to the surroundings. During the homestay outside of Chiang Mai, Thailand, her Experiment group worked alongside homestay families in the rice paddies, and taught English at a local school. ”I learned about the human [...]
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