Study Abroad Association (SAA) is excited to bring back our student scholarships for 2025! We believe everyone should be able to access the profound benefits of studying abroad. In line with our core values, these scholarships are designed to give community and technical college students a chance to benefit from the life-changing experience of studying abroad. Please share this information with your students planning to study abroad on a summer 2025 faculty-led program organized with SAA!
The application for the U. S. Department of State’s 2025 Critical Language Scholarship (CLS) Program and CLS Spark virtual initiative is now open! We welcome your students to apply this year to learn a critical language on a funded overseas or virtual summer program.
Through the CLS Program, U.S. undergraduate and graduate students spend eight to ten weeks over the summer studying one of a dozen critical languages: Arabic, Chinese, Hindi, Indonesian, Japanese, Korean, Persian, Portuguese, Russian, Swahili, Turkish, and Urdu. The program is designed to promote rapid language gains through intensive language instruction, host community engagement, and structured cultural activities in a cohort-based setting.
Apply Here: https://forms.gle/ZxKSFE1qWqiaKxXPA
Spring Applications DUE: November 15, 2024 by 5:00 pm/Pacific
Dr. Donald R. Culton was the first-full-time administrator for international education at a California community college and laid the groundwork for community college study abroad that expanded opportunities for more students to have an internationalized experience.
AMOUNT: Each scholarship will be up to $ 500. The number of awards and amount of awards will be determined by the CCIE scholarship committee. Please note that only colleges current with their dues can apply.
I (Alex) was fortunate to spend a six-week study abroad trip to Japan this summer. For the first two weeks, I attended lecture classes for business, while for the rest of the four weeks, I interned at an international school called “Growing Tree”. Within these six weeks, I was privileged enough to tour a Japanese college, stay with a Japanese family for the weekend, travel to Disneyland, Universal, and Team Labs, and go sightseeing during my spare time. The 500 dollars that was granted to me went to all these expenses.
During the first two weeks of my stay, I attended lecture courses on global business. The professor was a native-born in Japan and had operated in the business world in Japan and the U.S. Her experience brought the class to life.
The monthly CCIE-EA Meeting will be Oct. 17 from 4:00 – 5:00.The special speaker is: Annett Maurer from the Forum about special opportunities for community colleges.
For the ZOOM invite, please contact Rosalind Raby (rabyrl@aol.com)
Greetings from The Forum on Education Abroad!
I am writing to share information about an exciting FREE opportunity for Community Colleges. We recently partnered with The Centers for International Business Education and Research (CIBER) to offer the CIBER Consortium For Education Abroad (CC/FEA) to Community Colleges for FREE!
It is almost that time again. In a little over a month we will, hopefully, all be attending this year’s conference at beautiful Glendale College, on Saturday, October, 10/19/24, 9:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Studying or working abroad can be an exciting and transforming experience, opening your eyes to new languages, foods, music, art, landscapes and architecture. It also places you in daily contact with people who experience and react to life in ways different from those to which you are likely accustomed. You will be experiencing new customs in a new culture and all the wonderful and mysterious intricacies that go along with it, something that is often simultaneously thrilling and daunting.
I recently received an inquiry from Prof. Dr. Bijay Kumar Kandel at Navoiy Innovatsiyalar Universiteti who has a faculty interested in doing the Fulbright program. If any of you are interested in hosting, please contact Dr. Kandel at bijaykandel@googlemail.com
The Institute of Study Abroad Ireland has shared some opportunities for your college or university that may be of interest- they offer two full online courses, completely free to use, as content, as an element of an existing course, as a new course, as a global studies course, or as an elective / personal enrichment course.