World Learning Inc. announced today that its Board of Trustees has unanimously voted to appoint Carol Jenkins as President and CEO of the organization after having served in the interim role since October 2017.
School for International Training is developing a new full-time, global master’s degree format using the institution’s centers worldwide as locations for existing degrees and new programs. This new format will complement SIT’s current online and low-residency master’s programs.
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has awarded SIT Graduate Institute, a program of World Learning, a grant of $52,135 to support a groundbreaking academic inquiry on African Americans living abroad.
A new SIT Study Abroad program will give undergraduate students a first-hand look at migration along both sides of U.S. and Mexican borders and its tremendous human, social, and political implications.
The School for International Training this week activated a new solar power project that is expected to produce approximately 260,200 kilowatt hours (kWh) of renewable energy annually and mitigate 183 metric tons of carbon in the first year alone.
Five alumni from SIT Graduate Institute have been selected by the U.S. State Department for the English Language Fellow Program, a 10-month project training English teachers abroad.
School for International Training will launch its 2017-18 Sustainability Speaker Series with several public events this month, including free lectures on the SIT campus by well-known sustainability advocates including Tony Hillery of Harlem Grown, 350.org Board Chairman KC Golden, environmental anthropologist and researcher Tatiana Schrieber, and others.