It’s a new year and we’re excited to announce some of the upcoming programs we’ll be launching in 2012. With initiatives in youth leadership development, health education, and international capacity development, we’ve got a busy year ahead. Here are some of the latest additions to World Learning’s efforts around the world. World Learning will host [...]
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World AIDS Day, December 1st
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 [...]
Celebrating International Education Week: Study in the United States inspires new career
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 [...]
Rwanda Symposium to Offer Perspectives, Inspiration
A renowned Argentine collective memory scholar and the executive secretary of the Rwanda Governance Advisory Council will be the keynote speakers for SIT’s upcoming interdisciplinary symposium on Conflict, Memory, and Reconciliation: Bridging past, present, and future in Kigali, Rwanda, January 10-13, 2012. Practitioners and scholars in the fields of memory, reconciliation, conflict transformation, peace and [...]
The Rescue Project Opens at SIT Event
Written by SIT Graduate Institute student Shaina Holm Moving stories and photos of rescuers during ethnic conflict around the world took center stage at SIT on October 10 as World Learning’s SIT Graduate Institute and the CONTACT Conflict Transformation Across Cultures Program hosted the opening of The Rescue Project Exhibit. “This idea of documenting stories [...]
Celebrating teachers around the world
As I sat down to write this blog post on World Teachers’ Day, I started thinking of my favorite teachers and the qualities that made them so special. Some presented controversial ideas, others guided me in my interests, some were inspirational, and others were simply kind. They all made a difference in their own way. [...]
Remembering Jeanne d’Arc Mihigo 1970-2011
By Rachel Unkovic, SIT Graduate Institute alumna Jeanne d’Arc Mihigo embodied what we all strive to be as members of the SIT community. She was confident and considerate. She was dedicated to serving her community. She cared deeply for her family and she was a kind (and cool) friend. I met Jeanne d’Arc in the [...]
SIT Welcomes Students Back to School
The SIT Graduate Institute will soon welcome 175 talented students to the campus in Brattleboro, VT and another 31 to the new International Development Management program based in World Learning’s Washington DC office. The students come from 30 countries including Burma, China, Ghana, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Liberia, Nicaragua, Norway, Palestine, Saudi Arabia, Tadjikstan and Uzbekistan and [...]
SIT Graduate Institute Capstone Wrap-up
In July, 51 SIT Graduate students returned to World Learning‘s Brattleboro campus to present their capstone projects. The capstone seminars are the culminating event for SIT Graduate Institute students. Having already completed the on-campus phase and a practicum, the students come together to present their findings on a variety of self-directed topics. The seminar is [...]
Youth Programs “Get Oriented” in Vermont
Check out this new youth program photo gallery featuring orientation activities for the 75 incoming participants of the 2011 Vermont Governor’s Institute on Current Issues and Youth Activism. World Learning hosted the program on its SIT Graduate Institute Campus in Brattleboro, Vt., from June 28 to July 9. The Institute was the first in a [...]
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