1. Participant Perspective: Global Entrepreneurship Summit

   James Morrissey, a 2011 alumnus of the Critical Language Scholarship Program, shares his insights on entrepreneurship and attending the Global Entrepreneurship Summit.

2. IDEAS Grant Competition Opens for U.S. Colleges and Universities

   IDEAS Grant Competition Opens for U.S. Colleges and Universities, offers One-Time Doubling of Grants to Rebuild Study Abroad Capacity.

3. NSLI-Y, Language Learning with U.S. State Department

   

   The NSLI-Y Program is a program that helps American students study abroad to learn foreign languages that are deemed critical by the U.S. government.

4. Demonstrating the Power of People-to-People Exchanges

   Professor Paul Heck of Georgetown University’s Department of Theology, is a 2008 Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program alumnus who lectured in Arabic on the role of religion in the United States at Mohammed V University in Rabat, Morocco.

5. U.S. Department of State and Education New Zealand Announce Partnership to Support the Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship Program

   U.S. Department of State and the New Zealand government agency Education New Zealand announce a new partnership.

6. Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board Meets and Engages Program Stakeholders

   Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board members approved two changes to the policies governing the Fulbright Program.

7. The Community College Initiative Program Commemorates First 10 Years

   The U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs (ECA) is commemorating the Community College Initiative (CCI) program’s 10th anniversary (2007-2017) through the publication of Community College Initiative Program: The First Ten Years.

8. FLEX International Education Week Spotlight: Xenia Macritica

   

   Xenia Macritica, from Moldova, is a Future Leaders Exchange participant and a member of Future Farmers of America (FFA).

9. Increasing Mutual Understanding Between Morocco and America

   Samira Idelcadi, a Moroccan alumna of the 2006 Professional Fellows Program, is the January International Exchange Alumni Member of the Month.

10. Experience America through a High School Exchange

    

    Every year, the State Department brings almost 2,000 high school students from almost 50 countries to live with an American host family and go to high school for a year.

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