Ask any UGRAD and they will tell you that there is nothing more exciting than being selected to participate in the Global Undergraduate Exchange Program. They will also tell you that as soon as you become a finalist, it’s time to start getting ready for the next big step on the road to the US: the TOEFL exam. To help our future UGRAD’s …
World Learning would like to take this opportunity to honor students who achieved high academic standing during the 2014 fall semester. The following students not only achieved a GPA of 3.75 or higher, but also exhibited exceptional effort throughout the term. We received positive feedback from host institutions about so many of the students, but the 54 honor roll students …
World Learning would like to inform you of two social innovation opportunities available to current Global UGRAD students and alumni: the US Department of State’s Alumni Engagement Innovation Fund and World Learning’s Advancing Leaders Fellowship. These two programs provide opportunities for alumni to implement community engagement projects in their home countries. Alumni Engagement Innovation Fund (AEIF) Since mid-January, World Learning …
For some it has been seven months. For others it has been a year or more. No matter how long ago they wrapped up their experiences, UGRAD Alumni are part of a dynamic network of leaders who impacted their communities in the United States and continue to make a difference back home. Jhesset Thrina Enano, Philippines I am now finishing …
Just before the first snowfall blanketed the streets of Washington, DC, we said goodbye to an incredible 2014. For the UGRAD team, the year was marked by: one mid-year workshop, three re-entry workshops, one arrival workshop, celebrating our students’ 4,872 community service hours, and so much more! There’s no better time than December 31st to review the year that was. …
It is with tremendous excitement that we announce that World Learning is the recipient of the Department of State’s Global UGRAD award for 2015 fiscal year. This award represents a consolidation of several of the other UGRAD awards that World Learning previously implemented, as well as a couple of new regions! On behalf of the Department of State, World Learning will bring …
The below images represent a sampling of what our UGRAD students did during their winter breaks. Click on an image to hear about the student’s specific experience in their own words!
Our alumni from Thailand are putting the academic and leadership skills they learned from UGRAD to use! Four alumni wrote to World Learning about their current jobs, higher education, awards and youth leadership demonstrating that transformational experiences continue after UGRAD. Sirodom Koonyotying, 2013-14 UGRAD alum Right after I returned from my UGRAD exchange semester at American University in Washington D.C., …
By Marija Gavrilov, 2012-2013 UGRAD alumna from Serbia I first discovered Prishtina, Kosovo in 2013, when I participated in the A.U.K. Peace Building Post-Conflict Transformation and Development Program, a summer program organized by American University in Kosovo (AUK). Having grown up in Serbia in the ’90s, during the decade of intense conflicts in the Balkans, I witnessed war, international intervention, …