Announcements

September 11, 2019

SIT hires Michael Zoll as new Dean of Student Health, Safety, and Well-being. He brings to this new position. more than 30 years' experience in higher education and international education.

September 10, 2019

SIT welcomes five new academic directors or the 2019-20 academic year, including three women scientists, a historian, and a journalism expert.

September 4, 2019

Applications are due October 1, 2019, for the next Alice Rowan Swanson Fellowship. The program gives SIT Study Abroad and IHP alumni an opportunity to return to the country where they studied abroad to carry out a human rights-based project.

August 12, 2019

WASHINGTON, DC — Seventeen students received master’s degrees on August 11 during a ceremony at the National Presbyterian Church that emphasized the importance of cultivating community to build a more sustainable world.

August 7, 2019

August 6, 2019

June 10, 2019

May 3, 2019

SIT welcomes 44 master's students to the May 2019 Capstone Seminar, taking place on the Brattleboro campus at 1 Kipling Road Tuesday, May 7 through Thursday, May 9.

May 2, 2019

SIT Study Abroad academic directors and program collaborators will present papers at two SIT Study Abroad-sponsored panels at the 2019 Latin America Study Association Congress, May 24-27 in Boston.

May 2, 2019

At least six current NAFSA volunteer leaders have roots at School for International Training and one, SIT Graduate Institute International Education MA Program Chair Dr. Sora Friedman, chairs NAFSA’s Teaching, Learning and Scholarship Knowledge Community and has co-edited a new NAFSA publication about careers in the field.

May 1, 2019

April 4, 2019

March 20, 2019

March 8, 2019

March 7, 2019

March 1, 2019

A conversation about the Venezuela crisis within the larger context of Latin America

February 19, 2019

December 1, 2018

Due to an application system upgrade, we will open the fall 2019 application period on Monday, Dec. 10, five days earlier than planned. This will give students extra time to submit their applications before the system upgrade begins.

November 9, 2018

School for International Training appoints Ian O’Brien to fill a new position, Director of Security, to monitor, analyze, and report risk in the countries where SIT Study Abroad and SIT Graduate Institute programs are hosted and enhance SIT’s rigorous safety and security measures for our students abroad.

October 4, 2018

Prompted by growing economic disparity and environmental destruction and the lack of visibility of existing alternatives, the School for International Training (SIT) is introducing a revamped Master of Arts in Sustainable Development.

October 4, 2018

Responding to a growing need for leaders in the field of humanitarian aid, School for International Training will launch a one-year Master of Arts degree in Humanitarian Assistance and Crisis Management in fall 2019.

September 28, 2018

Dr. Christine Blasey Ford's testimony and her experience shined a spotlight on the power dynamics that all too often get in the way of a woman’s right – anybody’s right -- to speak, to be heard, and to have one’s experience counted. We can and must do better to address not only the issue of sexual violence in our society, but also the way survivors of sexual assault are too often treated.

September 20, 2018

A new peace and justice master’s degree from School for International Training will include a formative two-week residency in South Africa, and classes through two influential organizations, the United States Institute of Peace and the Alliance for Peacebuilding in Washington, DC.