Fifteen students and recent graduates of the University of Minnesota, including three CLS Program alumni, have been offered grants to study and teach abroad during the 2020-21 academic year by the Fulbright U. S. Student Program.
Max Saltman (Arabic '20), writes an op-ed in the Sewanee student newspaper arguing against the cancellation of the Arabic program at Sewanee and advocating for expanded teaching and learning of critical languages in higher education.
CLS Virtual Institute scholar Sahithya Gowri Vishwanath was featured alongside her language partner Cho Yeon-ui in Chonnam National University's official English-language newspaper.
Following the success of the Critical Language Scholarship (CLS) Program’s Virtual Institutes this summer, we are pleased to announce that the CLS Program will offer further virtual language instruction this fall for the study of ten critical languages: Azerbaijani, Bangla, Chinese, Indonesian, Jap…
Nilaya Knafo is an alumna of the 2017 CLS Arabic program in Amman, Jordan. A 2019 graduate of American University with a bachelor’s degree in international relations, Nilaya focused her studies on foreign policy in the Middle East and North Africa. She now works as a Senior Program Assistant at the…