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 [...]
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 [...]
Members of the World Learning community gathered in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia July 21 to get to know each other better while enjoying traditional food, music and dance. The group included three SIT Graduate Institute alumni, an SIT Study Abroad in Chile alumna, representatives of the World Learning Ethiopia office, and a team visiting from World [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
In recognition of Father’s Day June 19, we are highlighting two fathers who encouraged their children to explore the world and themselves through World Learning programs. Twins Nungshi and Tashi Malik from India are celebrating this Father’s Day by following in their dad’s peacebuilding footsteps. They are among the nearly 60 peacebuilders attending SIT Graduate Institute’s Conflict Transformation Across [...]
Bright sun, light breeze and upbeat percussion music set the tone for a day of celebration as some 200 graduates received master’s degrees or graduate certificates in programs ranging from sustainable development to international education. The keynote speech was delivered by Kevin Clements, founding director of New Zealand’s first National Centre for Peace and Conflict [...]
Sustainability means slowing down. That’s the slogan for the first Slow Living Summit taking place this week in Brattleboro, VT. The Summit invites the public to join sustainability experts from business, education, government, and non-profit organizations in an intensive exploration of ways to build healthy, thriving local economies. World Learning is sponsoring the summit in [...]
SIT Graduate Institute student Chris Blackwood recently created a digital story about his experiences with the organizational behavior and social change off-campus course in Mali. The course offered students an opportunity to collaborate with Malian students on research projects in schools throughout the country. ”From the moment we hit the ground in Bamako, we were more than just a group of students,” [...]
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