- This article was originally published by the US Department of State's Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs International Exchange Alumni blog. In the summer of 2015, Elise participated in the National Security Language Initiative for Youth (NSLI-Y) program in Rabat, Morocco. Through this program, she had the opportunity to gain firsthand knowledge about not only Morocco but also the Arab World and Islam. Inspired by this experience, Elise founded and serves as the president of the… Read More
- On January 25, the Embassy of Italy in Washington and the Conference of Italian University Rectors (CRUI) inaugurated the first Italy-US University Partnership Forum to promote research, education, and technology transfer to over 100 representatives from 44 US and 22 Italian universities. The forum's attendees were convened by American Councils for International Education, along with the Association of Public and Land-Grant Universities (APLU), the National Council of University Research… Read More
- Young 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 USThe 16 alumni from across the country who learned to speak a critical world language abroad during their program were selected to serve as NSLI-Y Alumni Representatives for 2017 and attended a training on their newfound… Read More
- The Board of Trustees of American Councils has expressed its deep appreciation and respect for the service of our founder and President Dr. Dan E. Davidson, who will, after more than 40 years at the helm, be stepping down as CEO this summer. Anyone who has had occasion to listen to his insightful commentary on international education, research or teaching, or has had the opportunity to benefit from his professional expertise in language learning, understands the impact he has had on the field… Read More
- US undergraduate and graduate students in business, innovation, and STEM fields are now eligible to apply for The Business, Technology, and Innovation Scholarship for internships in Russia across two programs: Overseas Professional and Intercultural Training (OPIT) offers a six-week summer internship and coursework in intercultural communication and requires no prior Russian language skills or study. Business Russian Language and Internship (BRLI) combines intensive language study with… Read More
- This article was originally published in the Bradley Herald the hub for FLEX alumni and their stories. Emin, a young performer and FLEX alumni from Azerbaijan, has spent years touring with musical greats and recording his own music. But now, Emin is rehearsing for perhaps his biggest performance to date: preparing to study musical theater at the prestigious American Musical and Dramatic Academy in Los Angeles this year on a full scholarship. Currently, Emin studies voice in Baku, Azerbaijan… Read More
- The American Learning Center (ALC), a private foreign language school in Moldova, has recently launched a new interactive course cheekily known as "Face Robots" on robotics, electronics, and hardware programming taught entirely in English. The course, which is part of the STEM education component of the American Language Center, aims to help students develop the mindset of an engineer, increase their ability to construct and program open-source robots, and further their overall programming… Read More
- The American Academy of Arts and Sciences (AAAS) formed the Commission on Language Learning in 2015 in an effort to evaluate the state of foreign language learning in the US for the first time in over 30 years. As a direct response to a bipartisan request from the US Congress, the Commission was formed to gather and analyze research on the benefits of foreign language learning for all age groups starting at pre-school and extending through secondary, higher education, and lifelong learning… Read More
- By Dr. Steven Byrd, Associate Professor of Spanish and Portuguese and Director of the Latin American Studies Minor at the University of New EnglandIn the early 21st-century, foreign language learning (and the humanities generally) in the United States has found itself on the defensive. Worrisome terms such as "crisis in the humanities" and "identity crisis" have been articulated in academic literature to describe the decline and apathy of language learning in the country. Ironically, such… Read More
- Teachers of Critical Languages Program (TCLP) alumna Li Qiong was placed as a Mandarin teacher in Arizona in 2011. Since her return to China after her teacher exchange, she has facilitated a sister school program between her US and home school with two follow-up TCLP alumni grants focused on innovative international exchange. Li Qiong's 2015 project, Sister Schools Rising, shared Chinese language and culture and cemented the schools' partnership. In 2016, the China Education Association for… Read More
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