In 2019, Macalester Portuguese minor Gloria Odoemelam was awarded the highly competitive Critical Language Scholarship to study Portuguese in Brazil. Now Portuguese professor Ernesto Ortiz-Díaz is looking to build on his program's successes.
Former Olympian and CLS Alumna Siobhan Heekin-Canedy (Russian 2016) writes about the importance of sports diplomacy in the context of the Olympic Games in PyeongChang, South Korea.
Are you interested in sharing your experience while supporting and
promoting the CLS Program? The application to become a 2020 CLS Alumni
Ambassador is now open!
Who are CLS Alumni Ambassadors?
CLS Alumni Ambassadors are recent CLS participants who take
leadership roles as active and positi…
Marymount University alumna Stephanie Downing spent the summer studying Hindi in Jaipur, India, as an awardee of the 2019 U.S. Department of State’s Critical Language Scholarship (CLS) program.
The University of Kansas has endorsed applications from five students and a recent graduate applying for prestigious fellowships for study in the United Kingdom and Ireland.
Finish finals early. Move out of U-Hall. Go to Jordan. This was Clare VanSpeybroeck’s pre-summer checklist last June after winning the Critical Language Scholarship, CLS, a summer-intensive program targeting critical languages — non-Western European languages with critical demand, but limited access. With the scholarship, she travelled to Amman, Jordan for eight weeks, where she studied Arabic.
The CLS program is pleased to announce the 2019 photo contest, open to 2019 alumni of all CLS program sites.
Submissions will be accepted through October 22, 2019 and should fall into one of four categories:
Mutual Understanding
Photos and captions in this category should highlight the impact o…