1. July 2016 | Vol. 3, Issue 5
World Learning News
World Learning is proud to announce Carla Lineback has
been named director of alumni engagement. She most
recently served as associate dean
for academic
affairs for the School for
International Training. Carla's
family has been involved with World
Learning/SIT since 1954 and she
hopes to foster new connections
among alumni of all of the
organization's programs.
Executive Director of The Experiment, Aaron Morehouse
spoke to The Atlantic about how study abroad programs are
working to keep students safe in the face of recent terrorist
attacks and the importance of continuing these programs to
build relationships and understanding between people of
different cultures.
World Learning would like to thank our donors who helped
empower students and strengthen communities in more than
60 countries around the world. Watch our new video to hear
from participants about what their experiences with World
Learning mean to them.
Follow The Experiment this summer on Snapchat
@the.experiment.
Every year, SIT Study Abroad and
SIT Graduate Institute students and
alumni open a window on the world
through the SIT Photo Contest with
breathtaking images that capture
SIT's mission and values. The
public chose the winner of the Crowd Favorite category, which
this year went to Anna Wadhwani alumna of the India: Public
Health, Policy Advocacy, and Community Program, for her
photo of two girls in a village in Uttar Pradesh, India. Visit
the SIT Study Abroad blog to see all of the winning photos.
In the News
After Recent Terror
Schools Grapple with
Study Abroad (The
Atlantic)
Leah Willingham:
Roadblocks to
Reconciliation (Concord
Monitor)
Philadelphia Student
Receives Experiment
Scholarship (University
City Review)
Aaron Brazelton: Foreign
Exchange is America's
Real Currency (Alabama
Local)
How Vermont Teenagers
View Present Day
Politics (Battleboro
Reformer)
Balkan Youth Office
Aims to Breach Wartime
Divides (Balkan Insight)
Bigger but Not
Necessarily Better (US
News)
IYLEP Participants
Represent the Youth of
Today at Fourth of July
Celebration (Brattleboro
Reformer)

2. Education
The Experiment
The Experiment Leadership
Institute held a 2016 kickoff event at
the Hillyer Art Space in
Washington, DC, on July 7 for a
diverse group of 30 high-schoolers
going to South Africa and India to
focus on leadership development. Alumni of The Experiment
and other World Learning programs, board and Global
Advisory Council members, and staff came together to send
off the new participants and share advice on making the most
of the program. The event also featured remarks from Mark
Hanis, alumnus of The Experiment and social entrepreneur
and Executive Director of The Experiment Aaron Morehouse.
They discussed ways with the attendees on how to
incorporate the program's lessons into everyday life. Read
more in our blog post, watch our video to learn more about the
participants' week in Washington, DC, and listen to our
podcast with Hanis about social entrepreneurship.
SIT Graduate Institute
SIT Graduate Institute has launched a new scholarship
fund thanks to a generous $500,000 donation from Stephen
and Nita Lowey. Stephen Lowey is a chair emeritus trustee of
World Learning and Nita Lowey is a
member of Congress
from New York. They have pledged
$100,000 per year over five years
to support needs-based
scholarships for students enrolled in
master's degree programs starting
in fall 2016.
John Ungerleider, SIT Graduate Institute Peace and Conflict
Transformation professor and degree chair, has released a
new book, Let's Talk About It: A Guide to Leading Youth
Dialogue Across Communities and Conflicts. Ungerleider has
taught conflict transformation at SIT for more than 25 years.
His new book includes ideas and lesson plans for
conflict transformation education.
Nkenge Ransom-Friday, SIT grad admissions officer and
student affairs coordinator in Washington, DC, presented at
the June 2016 NASPA Closing the Achievement GAP:
Student
Blogs
The Experiment
Leadership Institute
Kicks off Summer 2016
First Few Days: India
Welcome to Amman!
Multimedia
Podcasts
Mark Hannis Social
Entreprenuership - A
Modern Tool to End
Genocide
IDEP Social Media
Infographic
IYLEP Social Media
Infographic
Videos
Our Ocean Youth
Leadership Program
Lessons from Mandela
Humans of SIT: Chad
LaRoche
Malawi Scholarship
Program
World Learning Says
Thank You
The Experiment
Leadership Institute
Orientation
How Has UGRAD
Inspired You?

3. Success in Higher Education
Conference in Maryland. Her
presentation was titled "At the
Intersections During Historic Social
Unrest: Understanding the Current
Experiences of International
Students in Higher Education."
Internationally known language acquisition expert Dr. Diane
Larsen-Freeman returns to SIT's campus in Vermont this
summer to teach the course Second Language Acquisition for
SIT Graduate Institute's MA TESOL Low-Residency Program.
A professor emerita of SIT Graduate Institute, she served on
the faculty from 1978-2002. She holds a Ph.D. in linguistics
from the University of Michigan, where she is also professor
emerita, and is also a visiting senior fellow at the University of
Pennsylvania.
SIT Graduate Institute Interim Dean Dr. Ken Williams will
present a paper at the International Council on Education for
Teaching 60th World Assembly in Jamaica titled "Successful
Principal Practices and Behaviour in Caribbean Schools: The
Case of Barbados & St. Vincent."
Dr. Beth Pratt-Sitaula, academic
director for SIT's summer program
Nepal: Geoscience in the Himalaya,
has received a national award from
the Western States Seismic Policy
Council for her Cascadia
EarthScope Earthquake and Tsunami Education Program.
Dr. Alison Heller, travelling faculty with the IHP Health and
Community program, has been awarded the School for
Advanced Research Campbell Fellowship for Transformative
Research on Women in the Developing World to write a book
on women with obstetric fistula in Niger. She will accept the
post this fall and then continue to a tenure track faculty
position at the University of Maryland College Park as
assistant professor of cultural anthropology, where she will
develop her research on humanitarian representation,
reproductive health, and biomedical engagement in West
Africa.
SIT Study Abroad
SIT Study Abroad is accepting applications
for spring 2017programs.
SIT Study Abroad will launch a journalism track for the South
Africa: Social and Political Transformation program in spring
2017. Students will partner with young South African
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4. journalists and will be mentored by journalists and Round
Earth Media to produce a major feature story. Stories by
alumni of SIT's Morocco and Balkans journalism programs
have
been published in major outlets.
Recent publications include SIT
Morocco alumnus Darren Sprik's
story about the Tanger-Med port
project for U.S. News & World
Report and SIT Balkans alumna
Carolyn Paletta's story about a new
youth reconciliation program in the region for Balkan Insight.
SIT Study Abroad will produce six videos at the 2016 Human
Development Conference at the University of Notre Dame.
The first video features South Africa: Community Health and
Social Policy alumnus and Fulbright fellow Joel Burt-Miller,
who presented his research at the conference on disability in
rural communities. The upcoming videos will focus on SIT, the
conference, and other students' stories.
Exchange
The Digital Young Leaders Exchange Program (DYLEP)
launched in June and currently connects 78 students from
Iraq and the United States through Google Classroom and
other online platforms. The program aims to develop the
students' leadership skills, increase their knowledge of civic
engagement and global issues, and promote mutual
understanding and an appreciation for diversity.
The Youth Team will implement a new high school Arabic
language exchange under the Iraqi Young Leaders Exchange
program (IYLEP), beginning in summer 2017. Senior Youth
Program Officer Rizwaan Akhtar will lead the program, which
allows participants who may not have strong English language
skills to take part in the in-person exchange in the United
States. The Youth Team will also collaborate with the
Academic Exchange Team to implement the IYLEP
undergraduate program in summer 2017.
This month Jessica Mead and Ben Gauley traveled to
Bangkok to administer the third Alumni TIES seminar for
Alumni of the Young Southeast Asian Leaders
Initiative(YSEALI) focused on Community Organizing and
Project Management. The seminar jumpstarts a six-month-
long outreach campaign

5. that will strengthen and
institutionalize the YSEALI alumni
network, culminating in a service
initiative called "YSEALI YOUnified"
to celebrate the third anniversary of
YSEALI in December 2016.
Development
World Learning's Malawi
Scholarship Program is improving
healthcare, building leaders, and
saving lives by training healthcare
workers to provide better services
in public health, nutrition, and
reproductive health and family
planning. Watch our new video to learn more.