Laura Hartstone is an alum of SIT Study Abroad’s Tanzania: Wildlife Conservation and Political Ecology program. Six years later, she is still residing in Tanzania and has created a new social enterprise, the Peaks Foundation, engaging women to trek around the globe while supporting local girls and women in mountain communities. Living with a Maasai [...]
The people have spoken! This year, we changed some of the rules for our annual photo contest. We set the stakes high by offering the winner a $500 travel voucher, and the runner-up a $300 voucher. From March 1st until May 15 of this year we received over 900 submissions, including nearly a hundred historical photographs from [...]
By Prof. Linda Drake Gobbo I learned last week of the death of one of our dearest alums, James Leck, who was the associate director of international students and scholars at Boston University. This obituary from the university’s newspaper is far too modest in describing what the man meant to the international education field and [...]
Last week 839 Experimenters and 81 group leaders began summer adventures in 30 countries around the world. Over the next month Experimenters will interact with locals during family homestays while exploring a theme in each country. They will complete community service projects in Ghana, chat with locals during intensive language courses in Japan, investigate ecological issues in Costa Rica, and learn the art of [...]
More than 30 alumni of World Learning programs attended a reception at the Marriott Hotel in Cairo, Egypt June 14, including alumni from USAID-funded training and exchange programs and SIT master’s programs. A team from World Learning’s International Development and Exchange unit hosted the event. More than 250 Egyptians have participated in World Learning training [...]
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