Media Coverage
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Vermont’s Spring, Sugaring And ‘Sense of Hope’
VPR (Brattleboro, VT) | May 7, 2021
Spring in Vermont offers a renewed hope and a new path forward thanks in part to vaccination clinics like the one hosted on World Learning and School for International Training's campus in Brattleboro.
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Letter: Appreciation for SIT vaccine clinics, frontline health workers
Brattleboro Reformer (Brattleboro, VT) | April 26, 2021
In a letter to the editor, Vermont State Representative Michelle Bos-Lun, an SIT Graduate Institute alum, expresses her appreciation for those contributing to the state's efforts to combat COVID-19.
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SIT Alum Selected for Adirondack Land Trust Internship
Adirondack Daily Enterprise (Keene, NY) | April 7, 2021
Zoe Turner-Debs, an alum of SIT Study Abroad Ecuador, has been selected for the Adirondack Land Trust’s 2021 Internship for the Future of the Adirondacks. During her internship, she will focus on applying geographic information system (GIS) skills in the field and in the office.
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SIT alum Jody Williams on creating sustainable peace
Pressenza (Germany) | March 30, 2021
Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Jody Williams, an SIT Graduate Institute alum, discusses her three decades of work advocating for a ban on landmines and why human security is crucial to creating sustainable peace.
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SIT Alum on the 5 Pillars of Leadership
Fullstack Educator (Georgia, USA) | March 28, 2021
SIT Graduate Institute alum Dean Fusto discusses the five pillars of leadership on the Fullstack Educator podcast.
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Reconnecting and Discovering a New Culture in Iceland
The Bates Student (Lewiston, ME) | March 17, 2021
Bates College student Dianna Georges discusses what it's been like to study in Iceland with SIT Study Abroad during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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SIT Professor on Gender and Leadership in International Education
latitude(s) (Washington, DC) | March 15, 2021
SIT Graduate Institute Professor Sora Friedman discusses her research on gender and leadership in the field of international education, which was recently published as a chapter in "The Wiley Handbook of Gender Equity in Higher Education".
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SIT Study Abroad Alum Named First VPR News Fellow
VPR (Colchester, VT) | March 11, 2021
Marlon Hyde, an alum of SIT Study Abroad's Morocco: Field Studies Journalism and New Media program, joined Vermont Public Radio as its first news fellow.
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SIT Alum Aims to Improve Education in Nepal
Vanderbilt University (Nashville, TN) | February 25, 2021
SIT Study Abroad alum Janie Kaiser is working with local educators and experts to improve access to a quality education for students in Nepal.
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Professor Emerita Helps Politically Opposed Groups Find Common Ground
CBS News (Leverett, MA) | February 17, 2021
Paula Green, SIT professor emerita and founder of the CONTACT program, is helping people from opposite ends of the political spectrum find common ground through her "Hands Across the Hills" initiative.
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Professor Emerita Paula Green to be Featured on CBS News
The Hampshire Gazette (Northampton, MA) | February 14, 2021
SIT Graduate Institute professor emerita and CONTACT founder Paula Green will be featured on CBS News for her work with Hands Across the Hills, a dialogue that aims to bring residents of Leverett, Kentucky, from across the political spectrum together to build understanding.
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Foodbank distribution at SIT
Brattleboro Reformer (Brattleboro, VT) | January 19, 2021
The Vermont Foodbank distributed Farmers to Families food boxes on the School for International Training (SIT) and World Learning campus in Brattleboro on Monday, Jan. 11. The campus has served as a distribution center for this initiative since September 2020. As much as 500 boxes of food are given out at each distribution.
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School for International Training adapts global education in a pandemic
VT Digger (Brattleboro, VT) | January 10, 2021
School for International Training is adapting its study abroad and graduate programs to continue providing global education opportunities during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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SIT alum and professor emerita recognized for contributions to TESOL field
U.S. Department of State (Washington, DC) | January 5, 2021
SIT Graduate Institute alum Mary Scholl and TESOL emerita professor Diane Larson-Freeman were recently recognized by the U.S. Department of State for their contributions to the English Language Specialist program and the field of TESOL.
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Elon student reflects on fall 2020 study abroad in Rwanda with SIT
Elon University (Elon, NC) | November 9, 2020
Elon University student Mary Thidodeau discusses studying abroad in Rwanda with SIT in fall 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Vermont nonprofit director departs after 30 years
VPR (Barre, Vermont) | October 29, 2020
SIT Graduate Institute alumna Beth Stern discussed her time with the nonprofit Central Vermont Council on Aging after stepped down from her role as executive director in 2020.
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SIT Student Visit Rwanda’s National Commission for the Fight Against Genocide
National Commission for the Fight Against Genocide (Kigali, Rwanda) | October 15, 2020
While studying abroad in Rwanda, students visited the National Commission for the Fight Against Genocide to learn about the country's post-genocide peacebuilding process.
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Nobel laureate and SIT alumna honored with plaque
The Commons (Brattleboro, VT) | October 7, 2020
A plaque honoring Nobel Laureate Jody Williams, who is an alumna of SIT Graduate Institute, was installed at Green Street School in Brattleboro, Vermont.
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Vermont Nobel laureate Jody Williams redefines national security in a COVID world
VTDigger (Brattleboro, VT) | October 5, 2020
Jody Williams, a Nobel Peace Prize laureate and alumna of SIT Graduate Institute, discusses security and activism amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
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The pandemic is shifting how students study abroad
Condé Nast Traveler (New York, New York) | September 2, 2020
COVID-19 has rocked the international education industry—and presented an opportunity to build it back better.
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Innovation Awards 2020: Winners & Finalists
GoAbroad (Fort Collins, Colorado) | June 15, 2020
In June, GoAbroad recognized School for International Training with its 2020 Innovation in Crisis Response Award for Operation Bring Our Students Home. In less than two weeks, School for International Training successfully carried out a worldwide operation to repatriate 920 undergraduate and graduate students from 56 program locations in response to the spread of the novel coronavirus.
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Sophia Howlett, President, SIT, US
THE PIE NEWS () | March 4, 2020
A career of teaching and leadership with the Central European University ultimately led Italian Renaissance studies expert Sophia Howlett to bucolic Brattleboro, Vermont. Today Howlett is the president of School for International Training, a pioneer in experiential, field-based programs that offers more than 90 undergraduate and master’s degree programs on all seven continents. She spoke to The PIE about her journey into intled, and her vision for the future of SIT.
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School for International Training knows it must adapt to survive
VTDigger (Brattleboro, VT) | January 5, 2020
The School for International Training, a 55-year-old institution with a sprawling rural campus in southern Vermont, has erased a sizeable budget deficit and is reconnecting with the community as it adapts to survive.
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SIT ranked top institution for English Language Fellows program
Vermont Business Magazine () | November 8, 2019
57 SIT alumni have been named U.S. State Department Fellows since 2006 - The U.S. Department of State has recognized School for International Training with the English Language Fellow Top Producing Institution Award, which celebrates SIT’s position as the institution that has prepared the largest number of TESOL professionals to become Fellows.