Press Releases

August 4, 2022

School for International Training (SIT) and The Forum on Education Abroad today announced a new partnership to offer joint credentials and academic credit for The Forum’s Professional Certification in Education Abroad.

May 20, 2022

Alvino and Beatriz Fantini were honored for their decades of service to SIT and World Learning.

April 5, 2022

Alice Rowan Swanson Fellow Amit Gerstein, a 2018 alum of SIT Nepal: Development and Social Change*, plans to work with local activists in Nepal to improve employment opportunities for the transgender community.

March 4, 2022

World Learning is honoring its 90th anniversary since sociologist Donald Watt launched The Experiment in International Living in 1932.

January 13, 2022

World Learning and SIT have partnered with the Ethiopian Community Development Council to house and retrain Afghan evacuees in southern Vermont.

January 12, 2022

World Learning and SIT have named Wagaye Johannes to serve as the new chief of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. She assumes her new role in February.

September 1, 2021

Harvard Professor Homi K. Bhabha headlines a new SIT Critical Conversations Webinar Series, which kicks off in September 2021.

July 19, 2021

World Learning and School for International Training are pleased to announce the appointment of Sarah Ingersoll to its Board of Trustees. Ingersoll is the granddaughter of the organization’s founder, Donald Watt, and the daughter of Phyllis Watt Ingersoll, who was an active leader and trustee for decades.

June 16, 2021

SIT Graduate Institute is proud to highlight three of its scholarships designed to help prospective master’s students make the most of this moment and advance their training—the Alumni Advantage Scholarship, the Vermonter Scholarship, and the Northern Neighbors Scholarship.

April 28, 2021

An SIT Study Abroad scholar will return to the Amazon this year to support workshops that will help indigenous communities learn about their land rights and how to protect themselves from illegal incursions. Emily Pugh will undertake this work as the newest Alice Rowan Swanson fellow.

November 10, 2020

School for International Training is proud to announce the launch of two new accredited part-time, hybrid master’s degrees in Global Leadership & Social Innovation and Humanitarian Assistance & Crisis Management.

October 8, 2020

World Learning is pleased to announce the appointment of four new members and one returning member to its Board of Trustees: Rye Barcott, Jack Benson, Elizabeth Clay Roy, Aicha Cooper, and Roopali Phadke. The cohort brings diverse perspectives and rich experience in their respective fields.

October 2, 2020

School for International Training has received accreditation for its milestone EdD in Global Education, SIT Graduate Institute’s first doctorate, as well as the first degree of its kind offered by a U.S.-based higher education institution.

June 9, 2020

World Learning and School for International Training (SIT) have entered into a new partnership with Diversity Abroad, to create positive systemic change in the institution. This process aims to ensure the organization is upholding its core values, especially social inclusion and justice.

May 26, 2020

SIT Graduate Institute, a leader in international education, is launching an EdD in Global Education.

March 31, 2020

SIT Graduate Institute is offering enhanced academic scholarships to thousands of returning Peace Corps volunteers forced to leave their posts this spring due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

March 31, 2020

SIT repatriates 920 undergraduate and graduate students as global pandemic unfolds.

March 17, 2020

SIT receives accreditation for three new master's degrees, in Global Health Policy, Administration & Management; International Education; and Diplomacy & International Relations

March 13, 2020

February 24, 2020

Eleven SIT Study Abroad alumni presented undergraduate research at the 2020 Human Development Conference at Notre Dame University, where SIT Senegal alumna Tyeesha Webber of Howard University won a prize for research she conducted on SIT Senegal.

February 18, 2020

Registration is now open for School for International Training’s first annual Critical Global Issues Symposium, May 14-16 in Brattleboro, Vermont.

December 10, 2019

November 19, 2019

SIT announces the newest Alice Rowan Swanson fellow, Shaylah Nichols, an alumna of SIT Study Abroad in Uganda. She will return to Kampala to develop a girls empowerment program.

November 7, 2019