Next year will be the 80th anniversary of the Experiment in International Living. In preparation, we are looking back into our long history, pulling out stories, photographs, videos and memories from the last 80 years. Rather than solely dig through our own archives for these photographs, we thought to ask our alumni to share their [...]
Category Archives: sports
SIT Study Abroad alum reaches new heights with Peaks Foundation
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 [...]
Nothing but Net: Exchange Trains Armenian, Turkish Athletes
A World Learning basketball exchange brings together Turkish and Armenian student athletes.
SIT students revel in historic World Cup, life in South Africa
Tori Raymond, a sports management major at the University of Michigan, scored a lifetime of memories when she experienced Africa’s first World Cup during SIT Study Abroad’s South Africa: Globalization, Sports, and Development program. The six-week summer program brought Raymond and 34 other American undergraduates to Durban, South Africa, where they lived with a Zulu-speaking [...]

