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Opening Doors Through Language
03/10/10
The attached is a March 8 Washington Post editorial from Maura Pally who is the acting Assistant Secretary of State for Educational and Cultural Affairs. Pally discusses the National Security Language Initiative for Youth (NSLI-Y) program, administered by American Councils for International Education and is funded by the U.S. State Department. NSLI-Y will provide 140 scholarships to American high school students to study Russian language in Russia in 2010-2011 with 450 scholarships allocated among other languages. Pally also goes on to stress that "foreign language skills and the inter-cultural awareness they bring pave the way for mutual understanding and better relations".
Opening doors through language
Grant Application Available for Educational Seminars Alumni
02/23/10
Apply for an Alumni Grant from Educational Seminars!
All past participants of these short-term educational exchanges are eligible to apply for these grants to strengthen the connections made while on program and further the goals of Educational Seminars.
Deadline for the first round is March 29, 2010
Click Here to View the Grant Application
JFDP Orientation at the University of Kansas Kicks Off 2009-2010 Fellowship
01/21/10
January 4, 2010 marked the beginning of the 2009-2010 Junior Faculty Development Program (JFDP), with the start of an orientation at the University of Kansas (KU) in Lawrence, Kansas. The JFDP Orientation was hosted for a fourth year by KU’s Office of International Programs, and served as the first opportunity to gather 68 JFDP Fellows from 15 countries across Eurasia and Southeastern Europe: Albania, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kosovo, Kyrgyzstan, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan.
