Marcus Dunn is an alumnus of the 2011 CLS Korean program in Jeonju, South Korea. His summer on the CLS Program followed his final undergraduate year at the Institute of American Indian and Alaska Native Culture, where he studied Fine and Studio Arts. He also holds a master’s degree in painting from…
Alumni Profile — November 24, 2020
Western Kentucky University student Mac Williams received a CLS award to study Japanese in 2020.
CLS in the Press — November 20, 2020
Hattie Seten (Arabic 2018) has been selected as a finalist for the prestigious Rhodes Scholarship.
CLS in the Press — November 20, 2020
Aaron M. Shew (Urdu 2009, 2010) is an Assistant Professor and REL Wilson Endowed Chair of Agricultural Economics at Arkansas State University. In this language spotlight, he shares with us what brought him to the study of Urdu and Hindi, how these language learning experiences helped to shape his scholarship, and about the importance of language immersion programs.
CLS in the Press — November 10, 2020
Pacific Daily News, a local media outlet in the U.S. territory of Guam, features the Critical Language Scholarship Program as an opportunity for all Americans.
CLS in the Press — November 09, 2020
Earlier this year, Olivia Moffett (Chinese 2018) organized a Chinese New Year celebration for DC-area CLS alumni.
CLS in the Press — November 05, 2020
Foreign language and international economics/Chinese and international studies major and Chellgren Fellow Michael Di Girolamo has been awarded a Critical Language Scholarship (CLS) to study Chinese.
CLS in the Press — November 05, 2020
Two students studying Russian in the University of Texas at San Antonio’s Department of Modern Languages and Literatures have been awarded a Critical Language Scholarship, a U.S. Department of State award that fully funds intensive language learning.
CLS in the Press — November 02, 2020
Secretary of State Michael R. Pompeo's op-ed in Newsweek makes the case for Americans to learn critical languages and announces the launch of languages.state.gov.
CLS in the Press — October 28, 2020
Edwin Juarez is an alumnus of the 2020 CLS Virtual Korean program and a current student at Claremont McKenna College, where he is majoring in Foreign Languages. Growing up in a predominantly Mexican-American community in Houston, he noticed how relieved his parents were when someone offered assista…
CLS Program News — September 30, 2020
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