School for International Training launches two new online PhD programs, one in international relations and one in sustainability, as part of ºÚÁÏÉçÇø’s 60th anniversary celebration. Both programs expand upon the global university’s six decades of experiential education and worldwide network of partnerships.
Sen. Brian Schatz will speak at an event Thursday about the importance of a global education and share how his study abroad experience with ºÚÁÏÉçÇø helped shape his life and professional journey.
School for International Training has named Ana Gvozdic, a 2020 alumnus of ºÚÁÏÉçÇø’s Peace and Conflict Studies in the Balkans program, as the newest Alice Rowan Swanson Fellow.
Celebrating its 60th anniversary in 2024, School for International Training is kicking off a series of events spotlighting the institution’s unique history and its dynamic future as a 21st-century global university.
ºÚÁÏÉçÇø's Journal of Critical Global Issues centers respectful communities, intercultural understanding, social justice and inclusion, and sustainability with a focus on voices from the Global South.
Macalester College alumnus Ronan Wallace has been named a 2023 Alice Rowan Swanson Fellow. He plans to return to Nepal to use 3D imaging to document flooding impacts in two communities threatened by Himalayan flooding, which is growing more acute each year due to the climate crisis.
Five new World Learning Trustees represent the international development, technology, social impact, government, law, education, and finance sectors.
School for International Training today launches "Africa: See for Yourself," a campaign to encourage undergraduate and graduate students to broaden their worldviews through study abroad in Africa.
ºÚÁÏÉçÇø's 57th annual commencement ceremony will be held Saturday, Aug 12, 2023, on the ºÚÁÏÉçÇø campus in Brattleboro, Vermont.
Patrick Robinson, a 2018 ºÚÁÏÉçÇø Ecuador alumus, has been named the newest Alice Rowan Swanson fellow. He will return to the Intag Valley to monitor water quality in villages confronting mining operations.
School for International Training and Dickinson College have teamed up to provide a values-based study abroad program in Cameroon.
The U.S. Department of State has named ºÚÁÏÉçÇø Graduate Institute the Top-Producing English Language Fellows Institution for 2022-23. ºÚÁÏÉçÇø will receive an award in March at the 2023 TESOL International Convention in Portland, Oregon.
As the newest Alice Rowan Swanson Fellow, ºÚÁÏÉçÇø Morocco alumna Nejra Kravic will develop a series of workshops aimed at empowering youth through media literacy.
World Learning is pleased to announce the addition of three new board members to its board of trustees: Dr. Mahesh Daas, Nicole Isaac, and Virgil Miller.
DIversity Abroad has named ºÚÁÏÉçÇø Ghana Academic Director Kwabena Opoku-Agyemang recipient of the 2022 Excellence in Diversity & Inclusion in International Education in the Individual/Professional category of Inclusive Excellence in Teaching. The award celebrates outstanding individuals who have developed inclusive practices that increase access, foster diversity and inclusion in international education, and promote an inclusive environment.
ºÚÁÏÉçÇø has named Dr. Laura Colket as associate dean for the Graduate Institute and Dr. Daniel Lumonya as associate dean for undergraduate studies.
As part of a comprehensive evaluation of ºÚÁÏÉçÇø by the New England Commission of Higher Education, the public is invited to submit comments about the quality of the institution. Comments must be received by Oct. 19, 2022.
KeyBank awarded a grant to World Learning for the program Pathway to Financial Literacy, a new initiative under World Learning’s New Vermonter Education Program (NVEP). This critical support will expand NVEP’s curriculum offerings and help World Learning and ºÚÁÏÉçÇø ensure the long-term success of the program, one that is quickly becoming a national model for refugee resettlement.
School for International Training (ºÚÁÏÉçÇø) and The Forum on Education Abroad today announced a new partnership to offer joint credentials and academic credit for The Forum’s Professional Certification in Education Abroad.
Alvino and Beatriz Fantini were honored for their decades of service to ºÚÁÏÉçÇø and World Learning.
Alice Rowan Swanson Fellow Amit Gerstein, a 2018 alum of ºÚÁÏÉçÇø Nepal: Development and Social Change*, plans to work with local activists in Nepal to improve employment opportunities for the transgender community.
World Learning is honoring its 90th anniversary since sociologist Donald Watt launched The Experiment in International Living in 1932.
World Learning and ºÚÁÏÉçÇø have partnered with the Ethiopian Community Development Council to house and retrain Afghan evacuees in southern Vermont.
World Learning and ºÚÁÏÉçÇø have named Wagaye Johannes to serve as the new chief of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. She assumes her new role in February.