Summer school may not sound appealing at first, but what if it included traveling to a foreign country and learning about life in another culture? UTC makes that experience possible through a variety of study abroad opportunities.
Micah Gentry, a graduate student from Oliver, Ga., studied at the Sevilla Spanish School in Antigua, Guatemala for five [...]
The largest-ever study abroad scholarship donation could help drastically increase the number of graduates who studied abroad at the University of Kansas.
The donation could potentially raise the number of students who have studied abroad from one-in-four to one-in-two within the next five years.
Larry D. Horner and his wife, Donna Manning Horner, endowed half a million [...]
The 501(c)3 Glimpse Foundation has launched a new online store that consolidates the resources it offers to further cross-cultural understanding and to help prepare students and volunteers for their overseas experiences. The store is available here: http://store.glimpsefoundation.org
Among the new store’s many offerings are subscriptions to Glimpse Quarterly, the Foundation’s print publication, which features first-person narratives [...]
The Horner Study Abroad Scholarship Fund will provide scholarships based on academic merit and financial need. The scholarships, which may be awarded to undergraduate or graduate students, will be open to students studying in any academic discipline at KU. Initially, there will be an emphasis on scholarships for the study abroad activities of the KU [...]
BANGKOK: Like many young Thais, Issariya Virajsilp knew she had to leave Thailand if she wanted to learn fashion. To study locally meant becoming essentially a dressmaker, or even worse, a kind of photocopier, reproducing someone else’s commercial ideas.
Unlike most of her friends, she could take flight, and in 2000 she headed to the Parsons [...]
Melissa Golden and Kathryn Adams of Toledo, and Rebecca Bostwick-Terry and Kindra Freedom of Newport, spent January studying abroad through a special study program at Linfield College.
Golden, a senior majoring in history, is the daughter of James and Candace Golden of Toledo. She participates in German Club and Wildcat Productions, the Linfield television station. She [...]
The Horner Study Abroad Scholarship Fund will provide scholarships based on academic merit and financial need. The scholarships, which may be awarded to undergraduate or graduate students, will be open to students studying in any academic discipline at KU. Initially, there will be an emphasis on scholarships for the study abroad activities of the KU [...]
The Institute of International Education (IIE) named Valdosta State University’s summer study abroad program in Guadalajara, Mexico, as an honorable mention in the study abroad category for the Andrew Heiskell Awards for Innovation in International Education. In addition, the program also received the recognition of “Best Practices†in campus internationalization.
The nominated program, titled “ESOL and [...]
The deadline for summer 2007 study abroad applications is quickly approaching. Students wishing to spend their summer break in one of several different international cultures through UD’s Center for International Programs must turn in applications by Feb. 16.
Locations still available for this summer include China, Ecuador, Vienna, Paris, Dublin, several cities in Italy and two [...]
It’s not easy studying abroad in another country but, for some students, coming home might be the hardest part.
Chris Klein, publications and marketing coordinator in the Office of Programs for Study Abroad, said reverse culture shock occurs when people return from studying abroad and find some of the things about their home culture to be [...]