Three SIT students receive diversity scholarships

Announcement Date: November 12, 2019

Three SIT Study Abroad students are among 41 scholarship recipients named by the Fund for Education Abroad (FEA) during its second spring award cycle. They were selected from a pool of more than 1,800 applicants from some 470 colleges and universities nationwide.

“These students all, in some way, represent backgrounds traditionally underrepresented in American study abroad,” said FEA Executive Director Jennifer Calvert. “They embody FEA’s mission of increasing access to international education to those least likely to experience the high-impact practice of study abroad.”

The SIT students and their study abroad programs are:

FEA aims to increase access to international education, It has awarded a total of $600,000 in scholarships to a record 176 students in 2019. That represents a 45 percent increase in the number of students awarded in a single year. A total of 466 scholars have benefited from more than $1.8 million in scholarships since FEA’s inception in 2010.