Archive for the ‘Study Abroad’ Category

Study abroad programs expanded for more majors

March 30th, 2006

The Office of International Studies has recently created more options to study abroad for students whose majors are difficult to fit in with a study abroad program.
Both former year long programs in Newcastle, England and Cork, Ireland now offer students the choice of going in the fall only, since students with majors like engineering are [...]

Jenkins establishes MSU study-abroad scholarship

March 29th, 2006

Springfield businessman Joe Jenkins has traveled the world. Now, he wants to give students a chance to do the same.
Jenkins, owner of Jenkins Diesel Power, has committed to a $25,000 gift to Missouri State University, to be used to establish the Grace Gardner Endowed Scholarship for Study Away.
An anonymous donor has pledged another $25,000 to [...]

Study at Home, Enroll Abroad

March 22nd, 2006

New IMACS Partnership Allows Children All over the Country to Earn High School Credit Through Accredited, Advanced Courses
Austin Brooks lives in Houston, Texas, and spends over four hours each day as a teen athlete practicing tennis and an additional two hours in the gym. His routine is unlike most 16-year-olds, so it makes sense that [...]

Studying abroad…for you?

March 19th, 2006

Picture you: studying…in Australia. Or Paris. Does Mexico sound good, too?
Study abroad is growing wildly popular among college students. Every year, thousands of students pack up their things and head to another country to take
classes and learn about other cultures.
Elisabeth Pawula, third-year International Business student, studied abroad in Guadalajara, Mexico last fall. “It was fantastic, [...]

Vice-Chancellor welcomes $25m support for bilateral research/scholarships for India

March 9th, 2006

University of Melbourne Vice-Chancellor, Professor Glyn Davis, has welcomed the Australian Government’s allocation of $25 million over the next five years to support bilateral research collaboration and exchange scholarships for India.
This funding was announced in India by Prime Minister John Howard.
Professor Davis who is also Chair of the Group of Eight universities, is currently in [...]

Teresa Donahue Making Progress with Business Study Abroad

March 9th, 2006

Teresa Donahue’s first year as director of the study abroad and internship programs in the College of Business Administration appears to be a success.
“We are producing more well-rounded individuals who are benefitting from studying abroad and learning about other cultures,” she said. “It prepares these students to excel in the business world.”
For the last [...]

Grant Helps Eastern Kentucky UK Students Study Abroad

March 9th, 2006

Students in the University of Kentucky’s Robinson Scholars Program will now have greater opportunity to study abroad. UK recently received a $50,000 grant from the IFSA Foundation to fund 10 $5,000 scholarships for semester or year-long study abroad programs.
“These IFSA Foundation grants for the Robinson Scholars will open up the world to students from [...]

Going Global For An MBA

March 9th, 2006

Soon the new MBA students at RSM Erasmus University in Rotterdam would be hunched over textbooks for their finance and marketing courses, but first it was time to pound on a goatskin stretched across a hollow piece of wood. That’s part of the orientation for RSM’s 96 incoming international MBA students, most from outside the [...]

Going Global For An MBA

March 7th, 2006

Soon the new MBA students at RSM Erasmus University in Rotterdam would be hunched over textbooks for their finance and marketing courses, but first it was time to pound on a goatskin stretched across a hollow piece of wood. That’s part of the orientation for RSM’s 96 incoming international MBA students, most from outside [...]

Faculty go abroad to study epidemic

March 5th, 2006

As some students labor to increase awareness of the HIV/AIDS epidemic with such events as AIDS Walk New Haven, and as scientists at the Yale School of Medicine study treatments for the disease, researchers at the Yale School of Public Health and Yale School of Nursing studying how to prevent the spread of HIV are [...]