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Working abroad can be an incredibly rewarding experience. There's nothing quite like gaining valuable job skills while learning about an entirely new culture. You might also pick up a new language ...
The University of Delaware is credited with creating the first study abroad program designed for U.S. undergraduate students in the 1920s.. A few decades later, Professor Raymond W. Kirkbride of the University of Delaware, a French professor and World War I veteran, won support from university president Walter S. Hullihen to send students to study in France in their junior year.
Launched in January 2008, the Carbon Offset Program is a unique component of UGA Costa Rica's study abroad experience. In addition to offsetting carbon emissions related to the participant's international travel and the efforts to restore critical lost habitats where tropical rain forests once stood, UGA Costa Rica's Carbon Offset Program seeks to establish long-term research forests where ...
According to the Institute of International Education, the majority of U.S. college students studying abroad, about 72 percent, participate on programs sponsored by their home institution. However, at least 28 percent of the approximately 260,000 Americans who studied abroad in academic year 2008/09 study through an outside program. [2]
The Kennedy Lugar Youth Exchange and Study Programs (KL-YES) are fully-funded student exchange programs administered by the U.S. Department of State. [1] YES includes the "inbound" program for students from close to 40 Muslim majority countries to study and live in the U.S., and the "outbound" program, called YES Abroad, for students from the U.S. to study in [2] selected YES countries.
The University of California Education Abroad Program (UCEAP) is the official systemwide study abroad program available to University of California (UC) students and international students from countries outside the United States. UCEAP partners with the UC Office of the President, faculty and study abroad offices at each UC campus, and host ...
Co-directed by "Wolfpack" filmmaker Crystal Moselle and star Derrick B. Harden, the fish-out-of-water comedy supplies a sweet dose of found community.
Feedback collected during the Pilot Project resulted in a third edition, released in March 2008. In response to the increasing number of short-term education abroad programs and the Forum's membership call for guidance, the Standards Committee drafted Standards of Good Practice for Short Term Education Abroad Programs that was released in 2009. [5]