The Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship Program provides
scholarships to U.S. undergraduates with financial need for study
abroad, including students from diverse backgrounds and students going
to non-traditional study abroad destinations. Established under the
International Academic Opportunity Act of 2000, Gilman Scholarships
provide up to $5,000 for American students to pursue overseas study for
college credit.
Critical Need Languages
Students studying critical need languages are eligible for up to
$3,000 in additional funding as part of the Gilman Critical Need
Language Supplement program. Those critical need languages include:
The Critical Language Scholarship (CLS) program provides overseas
foreign language instruction and cultural immersion experiences for
American undergraduate and graduate students in fifteen critical need
languages.
CLS is part of a U.S. government initiative to expand the number of
Americans studying and mastering foreign languages that are critical to
our national security and prosperity. These critical languages are less
commonly taught in U.S. schools, but are essential to America’s positive
engagement with the world.
WASHINGTON, D.C., November 18, 2019—The
number of international students in the United States set an all-time
high in the 2018/19 academic year, the fourth consecutive year with more
than one million international students. The total number of
international students, 1,095,299, is a 0.05 percent increase over last
year, according to the 2019 Open Doors Report on International Educational Exchange.
International students make up 5.5 percent of the total U.S. higher
education population. According to data from the U.S. Department of
Commerce, international students contributed $44.7 billion to the U.S.
economy in 2018, an increase of 5.5 percent from the previous year.
Open Doors 2019, released
today by the Institute of International Education (IIE) and the U.S.
Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs,
highlights the continued competitiveness of the U.S. higher education
sector as a destination of choice for international students and the
growing interest in international educational exchange among U.S.
students.
“We are happy to see the continued
growth in the number of international students in the United States and
U.S. students studying abroad,” said Marie Royce, Assistant Secretary of
State for Educational and Cultural Affairs. “Promoting international
student mobility remains a top priority for the Bureau of Educational
and Cultural Affairs and we want even more students in the future to see
the United States as the best destination to earn their degrees.
International exchange makes our colleges and universities more dynamic
for all students and an education at a U.S. institution can have a
transformative effect for international students, just like study abroad
experiences can for U.S. students.”
For the tenth consecutive year, China remained the largest source of
international students in the United States in 2018/19 with 369,548
students in undergraduate, graduate, non-degree, and optional practical
training (OPT) programs, a 1.7 percent increase from 2017/18. India
(202,014, +2.9 percent), South Korea (52,250, -4.2 percent), Saudi
Arabia (37,080, -16.5 percent), and Canada (26,122, +0.8 percent) round
out the top five. Emerging market countries showed some of the strongest
growth year over year, especially Bangladesh (+10.0 percent), Brazil
(+9.8 percent), Nigeria (+5.8 percent), and Pakistan (+5.6 percent).
Former Harvard undergraduate Damilare Sonoiki ’13 filed a lawsuit
against the University Oct. 21 alleging that the College unfairly
withheld and ultimately denied him his degree after three fellow
students accused him of sexual assault.
Sonoiki was set to
graduate in May 2013. Two days before Commencement, however, two women
formally filed formal sexual misconduct complaints against him.
Sonoiki
still spoke as the Harvard Orator on Class Day and walked at
graduation. Still, he was denied a degree because he was involved in a
pending investigation. Several days later, the third woman filed an
additional complaint against Sonoiki.
On Nov. 19, 2013, the
Administrative Board found Sonoki responsible for the accusations,
required him to withdraw from the College, and recommended his dismissal
to the Faculty Council, according to his legal complaint. On Dec. 10,
2014, the Council dismissed Sonoki. He never received his undergraduate
degree.
BOSTON— November 6, 2019—Harvard Business School Dean Nitin Nohria announced today that he will step down in June 2020, concluding ten years of service as the School’s tenth Dean.
Class Day – Dean Nitin Nohria
In a message to faculty, staff, students, and alumni, Nohria said the time is right for HBS to transition to new leadership. “Ten years gave us a good run to make progress on our ‘Five I’ priorities,” he noted, referring to the School-wide focus on innovation, intellectual ambition, internationalization, inclusion, and integration that has been a hallmark of his tenure. “Serving as Dean has been a privilege for which I am immensely grateful. A decade seems an appropriate duration for this chapter in the School’s history.” MORE
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CINA LAWSON MPP 2001 FIRST MET the president of Togo when he visited New York for the United Nations General Assembly in 2009. She was working in Manhattan, developing data infrastructure services for Orange Business Services’ public- and private-sector clients, and the two discussed the challenges and opportunities facing the telecom sector in West Africa.
When President Faure Gnassingbé was reelected in 2010, he remembered
their conversation and asked Lawson to join his government as the
minister of posts, digital economy, and technological innovation. Since
assuming that position, she has significantly expanded access to both
the internet and financial services in Togo.
Research Fellow Program for the Office of Evaluation and Oversight-1900000828
Description
Background:
The Office of Evaluation and Oversight
(OVE) at the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) is seeking several Research
Fellows (RF) to work at IDB Headquarters in Washington, D.C. OVE is an
independent evaluation office that conducts project, program and corporate
evaluations of IDB’s and IDB Invest’s activities and reports directly to these
institutions’ Boards.
