Programs like CLS are designed to help students like Heeley find their chosen path. Sponsored by the State Department, the program supports more than 500 students annually with fully funded language and cultural immersion in countries deemed critical to U.S. interests.
Five Washington and Lee University students have received a Critical Language Scholarship (CLS) for the summer of 2025. The CLS Program is sponsored by the U.S. Department of State and is a fully-funded summer overseas language and cultural immersion program for American college students.
Alex Wagner, a first-year global studies major at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln, has received a Critical Language Scholarship to study Arabic in Nizwa, Oman, this summer.
On April 2, MTSU’s Middle East Center welcomed Robert S. Ford, the former U.S. ambassador to Syria. He spoke to students in the Business and Aerospace building about what pursuing a career in foreign relations entails.
Marshall University sophomore Eddie Sorah has been selected for the Critical Language Scholarship (CLS) Spark virtual initiative, a nationally competitive language learning program.
Nearly 600 students have been selected for the U.S. Department of State’s Critical Language Scholarship (CLS) Program for this summer. These students were selected from over 5,500 applicants nationwide.
The CLS Program provides fully funded immersive summer programs for U.S. undergraduate and gra…
This blog is written by CLS alumnus Hyunbean Park. Hyunbean is an alumnus of the 2024 CLS Russian Program hosted by American University of Central Asia in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan. Hyunbean graduated from the University of North Georgia where he studied International Relations, Security Studies and Russ…