Press Releases

May 11, 2019

April 9, 2019

March 26, 2019

January 14, 2019

Responding to one of the most critical global issues of the 21st century, School for International Training has introduced a groundbreaking new master’s degree that brings students face to face with real-world challenges and solutions to the crises that have displaced more than 68 million people worldwide.

December 7, 2018

SIT welcomes 12 students to its December Capstone Seminar on the Brattleboro campus from Monday, Dec. 10 through Friday, Dec. 15.  The capstone presentation and paper is the culmination of every SIT degree program, the demonstration of students’ integration of theory and practice in their field.

November 6, 2018

SIT Study Abroad alumna and University of Minnesota PhD student Vanessa Voller plans to develop sexual health and reproductive rights training for rural Bolivian youth early next year. Her community project is aimed at confronting Bolivia’s high rates of gender-based violence and teen pregnancy.

November 6, 2018

SIT Study Abroad alumna and University of Minnesota PhD student Vanessa Voller plans to develop sexual health and reproductive rights training for rural Bolivian youth early next year. Her community project is aimed at confronting Bolivia’s high rates of gender-based violence and teen pregnancy.

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.

September 13, 2018

During summer 2019, SIT Study Abroad is offering 23 programs in 17 countries that will appeal to a wide range of majors and interests, including five skills-building internship opportunities. New to the SIT Student Abroad summer portfolio this year are: Colombia: Building a Culture of Peace and Vietnam: Nongovernmental Organization Internship.

September 11, 2018

Representatives from School for International Training (SIT) are fanning out across the country this fall to talk with potential students about the exciting new global and low-residency master’s degree programs available through SIT Graduate Institute.

July 24, 2018

On Wednesday, Aug. 8, visitors to the SIT Study Abroad Program Fair at the River Garden will have a chance to chat with more than 50 academic directors from across the globe. The event, from 3-5 p.m., is free and open to the public.

April 11, 2018

In partnership with the Fund for Education Abroad (FEA), SIT Study Abroad is pleased to announce that six of 100 study abroad scholarships awarded by FEA this cycle will go to students participating on SIT programs. The scholarships, which provide financial accessibility for underrepresented U.S. undergraduate students participating in study abroad programs, have helped to double the numbers of FEA scholarship recipients this year.

April 9, 2018

Leslie Massicotte, a U.S. NGO worker in Rwanda, is the newest Alice Rowan Swanson Fellow, the School for International Training announced today. Massicotte is a 2014 graduate of Earlham College in Indiana and a 2013 alumna of the SIT Study Abroad program Rwanda: Post-Genocide Restoration and Peacebuilding.

February 27, 2018

One of SIT’s most impactful initiatives, the Conflict Transformation Across Cultures Peacebuilding program (CONTACT) will bring together peacebuilders from around the world June 4-22 in southern Vermont.

February 20, 2018

World Learning Inc. announced today that its Board of Trustees has unanimously voted to appoint Carol Jenkins as President and CEO of the organization after having served in the interim role since October 2017.

February 2, 2018

SIT’s International Honors Program will receive Diversity Abroad's 2018 Excellence in Diversity & Inclusion in International Education (EDIIE) Award for Programming, School for International Training announced today.

January 3, 2018

School for International Training is developing a new full-time, global master’s degree format using the institution’s centers worldwide as locations for existing degrees and new programs. This new format will complement SIT’s current online and low-residency master’s programs.

December 20, 2017

The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has awarded SIT Graduate Institute, a program of World Learning, a grant of $52,135 to support a groundbreaking academic inquiry on African Americans living abroad.

December 13, 2017

A new SIT Study Abroad program will give undergraduate students a first-hand look at migration along both sides of U.S. and Mexican borders and its tremendous human, social, and political implications.

December 6, 2017

The School for International Training this week activated a new solar power project that is expected to produce approximately 260,200 kilowatt hours (kWh) of renewable energy annually and mitigate 183 metric tons of carbon in the first year alone.

November 16, 2017

School for International Training and World Learning have named SIT Study Abroad alumna Chelsea Bhajan as the next Alice Rowan Swanson Fellow. Bhajan plans to return to Indonesia to help remove the stigma around people with disabilities.

November 3, 2017

Five alumni from SIT Graduate Institute have been selected by the U.S. State Department for the English Language Fellow Program, a 10-month project training English teachers abroad.

October 12, 2017

School for International Training will launch its 2017-18 Sustainability Speaker Series with several public events this month, including free lectures on the SIT campus by well-known sustainability advocates including Tony Hillery of Harlem Grown, 350.org Board Chairman KC Golden, environmental anthropologist and researcher Tatiana Schrieber, and others.