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Sixteen-year-old native Memphian Jamie Martin still dreams in French after returning in June from a year studying abroad in France.
The rising junior at Lausanne Collegiate School in Memphis delayed his graduation a year until 2013 to experience a year of high school in the small community of Loches in central France.
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... an initial period of not more than three years, and may be granted extensions of temporary stay i... nonimmigrant visa from a consular officer abroad and seek readmission to the United States, or appl..., seminaries, conservatories, academic high schools, elementary schools, other academic i...
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Wesleyan grad awarded Fulbright scholarship
West Virginia Wesleyan graduate, Lucy Swecker of Mill Creek, has been awarded a Fulbright scholarship. The Fulbright U.S. Student Program seeks to foster international relations by granting fellowships for U.S. graduating college seniors, graduate students, young professionals and artists to study, conduct research or assist teaching English abroad for one academic year.
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CHICAGO -- Despite the severe impact of the current recession, IES Abroad has awarded more than $2 million in student financial aid over the past 12 m...
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Three University at Buffalo students were awarded Fulbright scholarships for the 2009-10 academic year. Meghana Gadgil, Katherine Cumberland and Catherine Dunning are abroad studying and contributing to the health and education systems of other countries. They are among the more than 1,500 U.S. citizens who will study, teach or research abroad as Fulbright scholars this academic year.
Gadgil, of Berkeley, Calif., is a student in the UB School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences. Cumberland, of Gasport, is working as an English teaching assistant in the Kaohsiung public elementary schools and studying Mandarin in Taiwan. Dunning, of Poughquag, is working as an English teaching assistant at Ecole Normale Superieure, the Teacher's College of the newly established University of Maroua in Ca...
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Tigers Abroad exhibit
In recognition of International Education Week, the 2010 Tigers Abroad photo contest exhibit will be on display Monday through Friday in the Ned R. McWherter Library Rotunda. All entries are from University of Memphis students who studied abroad during the 2009- 2010 academic year.
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Internationalisation [sic] of higher education is the process of integrating an international/ intercultural dimension into the teaching, research, and service functions of the institution, (p.12) In addition, they cite the definition of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (1994): [Internationalization is]... the complex of processes whose combined effect, whether planned or not, is to enhance the international dimension of the experience of higher education in universities and similar educational institutions. Individual efforts have ranged from the "Preview for Freshmen" (now extended to transfer students) to spend spring break in London (and now Scotland and Spain) with Arcadia faculty and staff, to the "First -Year Study Abroad Experience" (FYSAE), a semester ...
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Students are studying abroad at a record-breaking numbers, reflecting the value employers place on international experience.
More than a quarter-million students studied abroad during the 2009-10 academic year, a 4 percent increase over the previous year, according to the Washington-based Institute of International Education.
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Despite the world's hostile political climate, students are venturing outside the United States in record numbers, thanks to a near-infinite number of study abroad opportunities.
In the first full academic year after the 9/11 attacks, the number of U.S. higher education students receiving credit for study abroad rose 8.5 percent, according to the Institute for International Education's Open Door Report 2004.
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BAR HARBOR - David Feldman, a faculty member in math and physics at College of the Atlantic, has received a Fulbright scholar grant to lecture in Rwanda in 2012. He will work in the department of applied physics at the Kigali Institute of Science and Technology in the capital of Rwanda.
According to the U.S. Department of State and the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board, Feldman is one of approximately 1,100 U.S. faculty and professionals who will travel abroad through the Fulbright U.S. Scholar program this academic year.