Morris, of Richmond, Virginia, will use this scholarship to study Indonesian in the city of Malang in East Java, Indonesia this summer.
CLS in the Press — April 02, 2024
Bard College senior Melonie Bisset ’24, a film and electronic arts major, has won a highly selective Critical Language Scholarship (CLS) for the 2024 summer session. CLS, a program of the US Department of State, provides recipients with overseas placements that include intensive language instruction and structured cultural enrichment experiences designed to promote rapid language gains.
CLS in the Press — April 01, 2024
Four students at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, have been awarded the Critical Language Scholarship by the U.S. Department of State. The students will use their scholarships to study Mandarin Chinese, Arabic and Russian overseas.
CLS in the Press — April 01, 2024
enn State alumna Heather Novak earned a Critical Language Scholarship, providing her the opportunity to further develop her Mandarin language skills while living abroad. Novak, of Northampton, Pennsylvania, graduated from Penn State with a bachelor’s degree in linguistics and a minor in Chinese, and a master’s degree in teaching English as a second language from the College of the Liberal Arts.
CLS in the Press — March 29, 2024
Two WKU students have been offered 2024 Critical Language Scholarships, and two have been designated alternates. The Critical Language Scholarship Program (CLS), a program of the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, is an intensive overseas language and cultural immersion program for American undergraduate and graduate students.
CLS in the Press — March 25, 2024
For Berwick, receiving a CLS to study Indonesian language, culture and customs in Malang, Indonesia, brings her one step closer to her dream career as a foreign service officer for the U.S. Department of State. The scholarship is also meaningful because Berwick has grown up surrounded by Indonesian culture and has been an Indonesian-style classical dancer since she was 4 years old.
CLS in the Press — March 21, 2024
The academic achievements of Nina Thomas, an alumna of the Arkansas School for Mathematics, Sciences, and the Arts who is now in her junior year at the University of Arkansas, have earned her a scholarship to study Arabic in Jordan this summer, her family said in a news release said.
CLS in the Press — March 19, 2024
Three Michigan State University students have been awarded Critical Language Scholarships.
CLS in the Press — March 18, 2024
When CLS Russian students, Raven and Valentina, first learned they’d be studying in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, they were ecstatic. Their second feeling was one of uncertainty – what were they going to eat!? As a vegetarian and vegan respectively, Raven and Valentina’s plant-based diets were in strong co…
CLS Program News — March 15, 2024
Murray State University junior Paige Weising has been selected as one of about 500 students nationwide to participate in the 2024 Critical Language Scholarship (CLS) Program this summer.
CLS in the Press — March 14, 2024
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