By Ma Jianhong, Teacher of Critical Languages Program 2016-17, on his experience as an exchange teacher at Izard County Consolidated Elementary School in Arkansas.
Category: Alumni Updates
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Alumni UpdatesLiving for a year in the United States often provides opportunities for exchange students that would have been unthinkable in their home countries. For Youth Exchange and Study (YES) student, Nehemiah, from Nigeria, spending an exchange year in Arvada, Colorado meant feeling accommodated in a way he had never experienced in his home country.
Alumni UpdatesUS Vice President Mike Pence was deeply impressed with the achievements of YSEALI alumni in Indonesia.
Alumni UpdatesElena Soboleva founded an academic integrity system to help colleges and universities grapple with new methods of cheating.
Alumni UpdatesStudents are never bored at the American Corner in Mary, Turkmenistan, a cultural exchange and education center that hosts over 40 activities every month.
Alumni UpdatesTwo alumni from the US-Kosovo American Educational Fund were recently recognized internationally for their work in diplomacy and the arts.
Alumni UpdatesElise, a NSLI-Y alumna who studied Morocco, was honored by the US Department of State Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs' as Alumna of the Month.
Alumni UpdatesYoung graduates of the US Department of State-funded National Security Language Initiative for Youth Program (NSLI-Y) assembled in Washington, D.C. in early January to learn how to represent the NSLI-Y Alumni Association nationally and in their home communities throughout the US
Alumni UpdatesThe performing arts career of Emin, a FLEX alumni from Azerbaijan, reflects countless hours of hard work and an unrelenting desire to connect the world through music.
Alumni UpdatesThe school of a TCLP alumna in China was recently recognized for outstanding achievement in educational exchange by the US and Chinese governments.
Alumni UpdatesAt the Eastern-Europe FLEX-Ability Workshop in Kvareli, Georgia, 62 alumni of the Future Leaders of Exchange program known as FLEX gathered at the Ministry of Justice Training Center.
Alumni UpdatesUS-Central Asian Foundation alumnus Kuttubek launched a summer camp for students in a rural community in his native Kyrgyzstan.