After 20 years, Rosiland Townes returned to college to obtain an associate degree in global studies at Oakland Community College. Along the way, she was selected to be part of a prestigious virtual initiative to learn languages essential to the United States’ engagement with the world, taking her global studies to another level.
CLS in the Press — September 22, 2022
U.S. Department of State programs including the CLS Program provide opportunities for students from Historically Black Colleges and Universities.
CLS in the Press — September 20, 2022
Elizabethtown College International Business and Political Science major Laura Cardona ’23 has been granted a Critical Language Scholarship (CLS) to study Mandarin through the U. S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, CLS Program.
CLS in the Press — August 29, 2022
Arkansas Tech University student Lucas Babst is among the inaugural cohort of American college and university students selected by the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs to participate in the Critical Language Scholarship (CLS) Spark program.
CLS in the Press — August 29, 2022
CLS Program scholars visited the Parliament of Georgia and met with the Chair of the Education and Science Committee Giorgi Amilakhvari and committee member Khatua Kvitsiani.
CLS in the Press — August 08, 2022
David Anderson (Japanese 2019) paid a visit to Okayama University President Makino Hirofumi before returning to the US, where he will continue his studies at Harvard University.
CLS in the Press — August 08, 2022
(This article is in Chinese) CLS Chinese scholars in the CLS Program in Tainan, Taiwan participated in a traditional coming-of-age ceremony.
CLS in the Press — August 08, 2022
Manhattan College student Paris Lecleir, Class of ’24, received a Critical Language Scholarship to study Swahili for this summer in Tanzania, Africa. Lecleir is the first Manhattan College student to ever receive the scholarship.
CLS in the Press — August 01, 2022
Heather Sweetser (Arabic 2007), an Arabic instructor at the University of New Mexico, was selected as the 2022 ACTFL National Language Teacher of the Year..
CLS in the Press — June 24, 2022
In Richmond, Virginia, CLS Alumna Julia Beabout (Chinese 2012) and fellow International Exchange Alumnus Grady Hart teamed up to create Monumental Conversations, an augmented reality project that centers on the undertold stories of Black resilience and excellence in Richmond.
CLS in the Press — June 15, 2022
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