Today marks World AIDS Day and World Learning students, staff, and alumni are researching the topic, leading awareness campaigns, and designing HIV/AIDS education programs around the globe. Lillie Fleshler, like many SIT Study Abroad students, made HIV/AIDS the topic of her independent study project in Vietnam earlier this year. After discovering that stigma was a [...]
November 14-18 marks international education week in the United States. To celebrate, we are featuring stories, testimonies and program updates from throughout the World Learning family on our blog all week. This post features a video by Ahlia Bethea, who traveled with the Experiment to South Africa this past summer.
November 14-18 marks international education week in the United States. To celebrate, we are featuring stories, testimonies and program updates from throughout the World Learning family on our blog all week. This post features an essay by doctoral student and SIT Study Abroad Brazil alumna Rebecca Tarlau. By the end of 2011, I will have spent [...]
November 14-18 marks international education week in the United States. To celebrate, we are featuring stories, testimonies and program updates from throughout the World Learning family on our blog all week. Our second post features a story about Eshraq Alkhabbaz, a student of international education at SIT Graduate Institute. SIT Graduate Institute student Eshraq Alkhabbaz [...]
Stephanie McKee, a graduate of Maryland Institute College of Art, and an alumna of SIT Study Abroad’s South Africa program is the newest recipient of the Alice Rowan Swanson Fellowship. McKee will work with the restorative justice organization Phoenix Zululand to create new painting and art therapy programs for prison inmates in South Africa. During [...]
Our Experiment in Focus series continues with a visit to Mexico, the United States “oft-misunderstood neighbor to the south,” as group leader Matt Gordon puts it. Prior to their visit this past summer, Gordon and his Experimenters were questioned and scrutinized by friends and family about their decision to travel to Mexico. After only a [...]
By Adam Weinberg, World Learning President and CEO At its core, World Learning programs are designed to equip people with the tools needed to create a better world. I am often amazed at the things our participants do post-program. Yesterday was an especially telling day. A recent SIT Study Abroad student, Jessica Posner, was featured [...]
A message on behalf of Mary Davidson, a member of the World Learning Board of Trustees. As many of you know from the media worldwide, a giant, Wangari Maathai, has passed from our midst. In her extraordinary work, accomplishments and in her very being she was an inspiration and a brilliant light..a beacon for all peoples [...]
The year he studied abroad in the United States marked a major turning point for Steven Fonseca Ortiz. “My life can be divided: before UGRAD and after UGRAD,” the 21-year-old from Costa Rica said. Fonseca Ortiz spent the 2008-2009 school year at Indiana University of Pennsylvania through the Global Undergraduate Exchange for East Asia and [...]
Congratulations to SIT Study Abroad alum Joshua Carrera, who was recently featured on the cover of The Nature Conservancy magazine. Joshua studied abroad on the Brazil: Amazon Resource Management and Human Ecology program in the spring of 2011, bolstering an impressive record of accomplishments, particularly in the field of environmental science. Joshua describes his experience [...]
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