Study-abroad programs offer more than a semester or year of vacation in another country for high school and university students.
They’re small acts of diplomacy.
Barbara Decker, director of student services for the Council for Educational Travel office in Grand Rapids, said foreign students learn during their study abroad experiences that American life isn’t like that depicted [...]

ADC Michigan has announced the winners of its 8th Annual Martin Luther King, Jr. Scholarship Contest, which was open to all Arab and Chaldean American high school seniors in Michigan. This year, entries reached record numbers and were received from all parts of the state, a sign of the successful expansion of this program and [...]

Eastern Kentucky University recently became one of only 12 North American institutions to participate in an exchange program that allows students to study abroad.
The Magellan Exchange allows students to pay their usual tuition and fees at their home institution, but have an educational and cultural experience in a foreign country for a semester or full [...]

The opportunity to study abroad can be elusive to students with meager financial means, but the Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship helped two university students spend this semester overseas.
Blake Bohanan, a senior in psychology, and Holly Dye, fourth-year in animal science/pre-veterinary medicine, both received the scholarship for this spring semester. Bohanan is currently studying in [...]

The Blue Ridge Chapter – Sons of the American Revolution has launched the Eagle Scout Recognition and Scholarship Program in cooperation with the Daniel Boone Council, BSA announced William G. Clotworthy, chapter president.
“The young men who achieve the rank of Eagle Scout demonstrate they believe in the common principles shared by the SAR and the [...]

The Northern Arapaho Endowment Scholarship Committee is accepting applications from full-time students for scholarship awards at the University of Wyoming. The scholarships are for the 2007 Summer Session and the 2007-2008 academic year.
The deadline to submit applications is March 1. All application packets must be complete at the time of submission to the university. Previous [...]

Minnesota’s private colleges are leading the way in undergraduate study abroad participation, according to the latest Open Doors report published by the Institute of International Education. The report indicates that in 2004-05, of Minnesota students studying abroad 58 percent attended the 17 institutions of the Minnesota Private College Council (MPCC) compared to 30 percent [...]

For the past five years, the Vermont Teacher Diversity Scholarship Program has brought highly qualified teachers of diverse racial and ethnic backgrounds into the state’s public schools.
After matriculating at Vermont colleges, obtaining all the necessary licenses for teaching and then committing to teaching in the public school system for one to three years, the scholars [...]

The College of Education recently received a $100,000 pledge to establish a middle grades education scholarship, officials announced.
Jim and Evelyn Kirkland of Lumberton have committed to give $20,000 a year over the next five years to establish the scholarship.
The Kirklands are graduates of East Carolina University. Jim Kirkland received his bachelor’s degree in 1962, and [...]

First-year agricultural students at two-year colleges are invited to apply for 50 $750 scholarships from the CHS Foundation, which recently expanded its Two-Year College Scholarship Program to provide greater financial assistance to more students. The CHS Foundation is the major giving entity of CHS Inc., a leading energy and grain- based foods company with a [...]