As the diversity of the world’s cultures continues to influence our generation, Baylor has recognized the advantages of expanding students’ horizons on an international level.
Imperative XI of Baylor 2012 stresses the importance of emphasizing global education.
One goal under this imperative is to increase participation in study abroad programs so 30 percent of each graduating class [...]
A newly created scholarship offers students with an interest in Holocaust studies between $500 and $5,000 to study in Poland, providing an addition to Brandeis’ collection of scholarships to study abroad.
Students in the Near Eastern and Judaic Studies Department who want to spend a semester abroad in Poland will now be able to apply for [...]
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 [...]
Applications for the 2008-09 Rotary Foundation Ambassadorial Scholarships, designed to promote international understanding and friendly relations among people of different countries and cultures, are available from area Rotary clubs.
The scholarships are for full-time study abroad for one academic year at a college or university selected by the student and approved by the Rotary Foundation trustees. [...]
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 [...]
Everyone knows that getting an education is expensive. Student loans are available to most students for tuition, but what about the other expenses? You need books and supplies, a lap top as well as funds for room and board. To make matters even more challenging; should you decide to take on a full load of [...]
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 [...]