Two Elon University students have received awards through a federal scholarship program designed to further their study of foreign languages critical to U.S. diplomacy and outreach. Sarah Jane McDonald ’21 and Holly Cardoza ’23 have been named recipients of the U.S. Department of State’s Critical Language Scholarship (CLS).
Lucille Kline ’22 has been awarded a Critical Language Scholarship to study Russian through a virtual program hosted by Lobachevsky University in Nizhny Novgorod.
Sarah Sabal, a second-year applied modern language and culture student concentrating in Chinese at the Rochester Institute of Technology National Technical Institute for the Deaf, secured a Critical Language Scholarship and a Boren Awards Scholarship, which will allow her to spend a year intensively studying the Chinese language at National Cheng Kung University in Tainan, Taiwan.
For the first time in College of Charleston history, three students are the recipients of the Critical Language Scholarship Program (CLS), an intensive overseas language and cultural immersion program for Americ-2an college students.
Cameron Garcia, a graduate of the online Portuguese Language and Culture certification program in Murray State University’s department of global languages and theatre arts, has been awarded a prestigious Critical Language Scholarship to study at the University of Santa Catarina in Brazil.
When her Critical Language Scholarship to China went virtual because of COVID, Maria Kisker (Chinese 2020) got a six-week sampler of the country and its language through her computer screen.
Drexel University students Francisco Cruz-Urbanc (BA Global Studies '24) and Afrah Howlader (BS Public Health '21, Honors) awarded Critical Language Scholarships
About 20 percent of Americans speak more than one language. Sofia Latif, a third-year Lehman student, speaks seven. Now, thanks to a pair of prestigious study-abroad scholarships, she’s being recognized for her linguistic skills—and is receiving some highly coveted opportunities to sharpen them.