Editor’s note: American high school student Aya Obeid is spending her 2018-19 academic year in Lithuania participating in the Exchanges for
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Across the GlobeWASHINGTON – American Councils for International Education has selected the five US universities that will spend this year working with higher educ
Across the GlobeWhen the outgoing Kyrgyz ambassador to the US invited me to join him at his farewell reception in January, I gladly accepted.
Across the GlobeIsabella Palange shares an update from her experience on the Russian Overseas Flagship Program, hosted at Al-Farabi Kazakh National University (KazNU) in Almaty, Kazakhstan.
Across the GlobeAfter a decade in DC, I’ve learned that politics are everywhere: in newspapers, overheard conversations on the metro, even the graffiti.
Across the GlobeEditor's note: We polled our staff all over the world about what to bring on exchange. The submissions ranged from snacks to mindsets.
Across the GlobeEditor's note: From our most junior level staffers to our president, our global staff has a lot of knowledge about exchange to sh
Across the GlobeThe Kosovo American Education Fund (KAEF) celebrated the program’s 100th scholarship earlier this month, at a gala in Kosovo’s capital city.
Across the GlobeEditor's note: Norman has been volunteering at American Councils and reading application essays from hopeful exchange students fro
Across the GlobeThe first time I left the country, I went to Liverpool, UK. It felt like going to the moon. Some of my colleagues in international education think it’s funny when Americans talk about traveling to another part of the English-speaking or developed world as so eye-opening, but it was for me. I’m a second-generation American and I am the first and only person in my family to attend college. I studied at California Lutheran University, which was 23 miles from the house I grew up in. I was able to do so because of a federal program that supported matriculation for first-gen, low-income college students called TRiO. The TRiO staff encouraged me to apply to go to the University of Liverpool and when I shared that finances were why I could not apply, they found me a scholarship.
Across the GlobeEditor's note: At American Councils, we believe that exchange is for everyone, but we recognize that everyone will have a different experien
Across the GlobeEditor's note: At American Councils, we believe that exchange is for everyone, but we recognize that everyone will have a different exp