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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
By Meredith McCormac, World Learning Education, Senior Program Officer Imagine that you are a child who cannot read. You are sitting in a classroom full of children. You are staring at the book on your desk, but the text is incomprehensible. You feel frustrated and lost. Hundreds of millions of adults and many more children [...]
This past Spring SIT Study Abroad Senegal alum Sonya Shadravan traveled to Senegal as an Alice Rowan Swanson Fellow. The Fellowship, a living tribute to SIT Study Abroad alum Alice Rowan Swanson, provides awards of up to $5,000 for alumni to pursue human rights projects in the communities they visited while studying abroad with SIT. [...]
Twenty-seven American college students studied Arabic in Jordan and Morocco this summer with SIT Study Abroad, a program of World Learning. They spent seven weeks on either the Jordan: Intensive Arabic Language Studies or Morocco: Intensive Arabic Language and Moroccan Culture program. Both are designed to teach intensive Arabic language skills and introduce students to [...]
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