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School for International Training launches two new doctoral degrees with focus on conflict resolution and refugee response, sustainability and climate change
May 29, 2024
School for International Training launches two new online PhD programs, one in international relations and one in sustainability, as part of SIT’s 60th anniversary celebration. Both programs expand upon the global university’s six decades of experiential education and worldwide network of partnerships.
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Sen. Schatz to speak about the importance of study abroad in an interconnected world
May 15, 2024
Sen. Brian Schatz will speak at an event Thursday about the importance of a global education and share how his study abroad experience with SIT helped shape his life and professional journey.
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New Alice Rowan Swanson Fellow brings human rights education to post-war Bosnia and Herzegovina
April 30, 2024
School for International Training has named Ana Gvozdic, a 2020 alumnus of SIT’s Peace and Conflict Studies in the Balkans program, as the newest Alice Rowan Swanson Fellow.
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SIT celebrates 60 years of educating global citizens
March 21, 2024
Celebrating its 60th anniversary in 2024, School for International Training is kicking off a series of events spotlighting the institution’s unique history and its dynamic future as a 21st-century global university.
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SIT launches open-access Journal of Critical Global Issues
March 11, 2024
SIT's Journal of Critical Global Issues centers respectful communities, intercultural understanding, social justice and inclusion, and sustainability with a focus on voices from the Global South.
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SIT alum will document Nepal flood impacts as Alice Rowan Swanson Fellow
November 28, 2023 | Alumni, Fellowships, Research, SIT Study Abroad
Macalester College alumnus Ronan Wallace has been named a 2023 Alice Rowan Swanson Fellow. He plans to return to Nepal to use 3D imaging to document flooding impacts in two communities threatened by Himalayan flooding, which is growing more acute each year due to the climate crisis.
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World Learning welcomes five new trustees
October 17, 2023 | School for International Training
Five new World Learning Trustees represent the international development, technology, social impact, government, law, education, and finance sectors.
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SIT urges U.S. students to study abroad in Africa
September 19, 2023 | Africa, SIT Graduate Institute, SIT Study Abroad
School for International Training today launches "Africa: See for Yourself," a campaign to encourage undergraduate and graduate students to broaden their worldviews through study abroad in Africa.
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Retired U.S. ambassador is featured speaker at SIT commencement
August 2, 2023
SIT's 57th annual commencement ceremony will be held Saturday, Aug 12, 2023, on the SIT campus in Brattleboro, Vermont.
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SIT Fellow will document water quality in Ecuadorian villages threatened by mining
April 21, 2023
Patrick Robinson, a 2018 SIT Ecuador alumus, has been named the newest Alice Rowan Swanson fellow. He will return to the Intag Valley to monitor water quality in villages confronting mining operations.
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SIT-Dickinson College team up in multidisciplinary Cameroon program
March 23, 2023
School for International Training and Dickinson College have teamed up to provide a values-based study abroad program in Cameroon.
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SIT named Top TESOL Fellow Producing Institution
January 30, 2023
The U.S. Department of State has named SIT Graduate Institute the Top-Producing English Language Fellows Institution for 2022-23. SIT will receive an award in March at the 2023 TESOL International Convention in Portland, Oregon.
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Scripps, SIT Morocco alumna Nejra Kravic named Alice Rowan Swanson Fellow
November 17, 2022
As the newest Alice Rowan Swanson Fellow, SIT Morocco alumna Nejra Kravic will develop a series of workshops aimed at empowering youth through media literacy.
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World Learning welcomes three new board members
October 20, 2022
World Learning is pleased to announce the addition of three new board members to its board of trustees: Dr. Mahesh Daas, Nicole Isaac, and Virgil Miller.
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SIT Academic Director Kwabena Opoku-Agyemang cited for inclusive excellence
October 12, 2022
DIversity Abroad has named SIT Ghana Academic Director Kwabena Opoku-Agyemang recipient of the 2022 Excellence in Diversity & Inclusion in International Education in the Individual/Professional category of Inclusive Excellence in Teaching. The award celebrates outstanding individuals who have developed inclusive practices that increase access, foster diversity and inclusion in international education, and promote an inclusive environment.
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SIT names two new associate deans
September 28, 2022
SIT has named Dr. Laura Colket as associate dean for the Graduate Institute and Dr. Daniel Lumonya as associate dean for undergraduate studies.
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Invitation for Public Comments
September 14, 2022
As part of a comprehensive evaluation of SIT by the New England Commission of Higher Education, the public is invited to submit comments about the quality of the institution. Comments must be received by Oct. 19, 2022.
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KeyBank, World Learning and SIT partner to strengthen financial literacy for refugees
August 29, 2022
KeyBank awarded a grant to World Learning for the program Pathway to Financial Literacy, a new initiative under World Learning’s New Vermonter Education Program (NVEP). This critical support will expand NVEP’s curriculum offerings and help World Learning and SIT ensure the long-term success of the program, one that is quickly becoming a national model for refugee resettlement.
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SIT, The Forum announce joint credential for academic credit
August 4, 2022
School for International Training (SIT) and The Forum on Education Abroad today announced a new partnership to offer joint credentials and academic credit for The Forum’s Professional Certification in Education Abroad.
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Fantinis honored for decades of service to SIT and World Learning
May 20, 2022
Alvino and Beatriz Fantini were honored for their decades of service to SIT and World Learning.
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Fellow aims to expand job opportunities in Nepal’s transgender community
April 5, 2022
Alice Rowan Swanson Fellow Amit Gerstein, a 2018 alum of SIT Nepal: Development and Social Change*, plans to work with local activists in Nepal to improve employment opportunities for the transgender community.
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World Learning builds on 90 years of intercultural education and programs
March 4, 2022
World Learning is honoring its 90th anniversary since sociologist Donald Watt launched The Experiment in International Living in 1932.
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ECDC, World Learning and SIT partner to resettle refugees
January 13, 2022
World Learning and SIT have partnered with the Ethiopian Community Development Council to house and retrain Afghan evacuees in southern Vermont.
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World Learning and SIT welcome new DEI leader
January 12, 2022
World Learning and SIT have named Wagaye Johannes to serve as the new chief of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. She assumes her new role in February.