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Honoring AAPI Heritage Month with our IES Abroad Correspondents

May is Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) Heritage Month in the United States, and we've been taking time to reflect on our AAPI friends', colleagues', and students' experiences, both here and abroad.

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May 4, 2022
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IES Abroad Rabat Hosts Customized Arabic Institute for Texas A&M Students

Every year, IES Abroad Rabat and Customized & Faculty-Led Programs hosts the Arabic Institute for Texas A&M students, but this year they decided to get creative and bring the international experience to College Station, Texas virtually. This past month, these virtual tours and lectures focused on expanding students' cultural worlds and illuminating the experience of studying abroad.

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August 5, 2021
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An Open Letter to Students Considering Study Abroad: 'Remember your dreams and push your boundaries to reach them'

Whether you’re shy and scared or outgoing and excited like me, you need to study abroad because you owe it to yourself to take the opportunity to grow and follow that passion.

Post by Victoria Pembroke
July 29, 2021
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How To Support Your Student While They're Abroad

Spending a semester abroad can truly be a life-changing experience for your student. It fosters personal and academic growth that can only be experienced by stepping out of the familiar, and into something new.

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July 20, 2021

Want To Study Abroad? Apply For a Passport ASAP

The U.S. State Department has announced that it now takes an average of 18 weeks—aka 4.5 months!—to process a passport.

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Meet Our Summer 2021 Correspondents!

After more than a year of the unknown, we were incredibly happy to send students back abroad earlier this month. And we selected seven of those students to be IES Abroad Correspondents, sharing every step of their journey with us.

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June 28, 2021
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Pride Month Spotlight: IES Abroad Staff Share what Pride Means to Them

In honor of Pride month, we wanted to highlight a handful of our LGBTQIA+ staff and share a little bit of their personal stories about what Pride means to them.

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June 25, 2021
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'On Juneteenth:' An IES Abroad Staff Discussion

At IES Abroad, we’re global educators, and that means that we are continuously educating ourselves, in addition to our students. After all, what kind of educators would we be if we weren’t committed to redefining our own worldview? 

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June 16, 2021
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Honoring Immigrant Heritage Month at IES Abroad

June is Immigrant Heritage Month, and at IES Abroad we work to weave the stories of immigrants and their experiences throughout what we do as an organization. Chicago, where our main office is headquartered, is home to a diverse population of immigrants from all over the world.

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June 14, 2021

The World is Reopening and So Are Our Hearts this Pride Month

This month, while we continue to push for progress in the Black Lives Matter movement, we also proudly celebrate our LGBTQ+ students, staff, and friends. Just like we said in our Pride video, in case you don't hear it enough.

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June 11, 2021

Global Leadership SerIES - IES Abroad Cape Town Professor Dr. Carla Lever

In this installment of Fireside Chats with Fascinating Faculty, part of the IES Abroad Global Leadership SerIES, Gretchen Cook-Anderson, IES Abroad Associate Vice President, Assistant to the President for Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Antiracism, and Director of Diversity Recruitment and Advising talks with IES Abroad Cape Town Professor Dr. Carla Lever.

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June 8, 2021

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Learn more about our global leaders in the IES Abroad community—staff, faculty, students, and friends—and their areas of expertise through our Global Leadership SerIES and Fireside Chats with Fascinating Faculty! You can also view more of IES Abroad's organizational leaders.

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