April 2015 Spring in Washington, DC brings flowers and renewed sunshine, but also the bittersweet departure of the UGRAD students. Over the next few weeks, the students will say goodbye to the friends they have made and try to cram their final experiences into time no bigger than the suitcase they initially brought to the United States. The re-entry workshops in …
After an amazing year at North Dakota State University, living and studying with people from different backgrounds, I got a full scholarship from the Institute for Shipboard Education and the University of Virginia (UVA) to sail around the world with the program Semester at Sea. Semester at Sea is a study abroad program organized by UVA to promote studying not just from …
Here’s a riddle: What’s ahead that takes you back, and requires time put in when time is what’s running out? The answer: UGRAD departures Even if it’s the last thing you want to think about, departures from the United States are inevitable. Rather than spending your last few days packing and scrambling to tie up loose ends, we want you …
The Advancing Leaders Fellowship program recognizes the ideas, talent, and vision of World Learning alumni by providing comprehensive training in social innovation, project management and leadership, and by supporting selected high-achieving fellows with grants and a network of mentors and peers so that they can implement an original social innovation project in their home communities. Beginning in April 2015, alumni …
World Learning hosted the Spring Re-entry workshop for 66 students from East Asia and the Pacific and the Western Hemisphere from March 25-28th. CyBelle Barthelmess, Director of Youth Programs for World Learning, facilitated interactive sessions on leadership, team building and reverse culture shock. Students explored Washington DC’s beautiful monuments on a night tour and visited the Smithsonian museums during a …
Radovan Cvorovic, Montenegro It is almost the end of the year – the end of an amazing chapter in my life – a chapter during which I could call myself a UGRAD (although, I will always be one)! It has been a life-changing experience for me and I couldn’t be more grateful for everything I was able to do, and …
World Learning partnered with the University of Utah to host this year’s NESA UGRAD Re-Entry Workshop in Salt Lake City. All eighty-one participants spent April 1st-4th engaging in seminars, discussions and activities aimed at better preparing them for life after UGRAD. Students reconnected with friends across the program on the first night of the workshop through a dinner hosted by the University …