Students Connecting Our World

11/02/2015

NAFSA Executive Director and CEO Marlene M. Johnson is at the conference in Cienfuegos, Cuba this week with more than 40 higher ed leaders from Cuba, Latin America, and the United States. Academic exchanges have broken down walls between the United States and Cuba, and now is the time for Congress to completely . You can take action at www.connectingourworld.org/cuba.

03/28/2014

Here's a quick recap of last week's Advocacy Day. Thanks to all the students who came to DC, told their stories, and made their voices heard to advance the policy agenda of international education!

More than 140 international educators and students from 32 states met with their congressional representatives' offices on Capitol Hill. Now our advocacy work continues throughout the year at home and at www.ConnectingOurWorld.org

09/26/2013

We're all about cheering on young people and celebs who are changing the world. But in order to tell these stories, we need great writers. And that's where YOU come in!

09/06/2013

Do you have friends on campus who are international students? Commonsense immigration reform could help make their lives a little easier. Use our easy e-mail tool to tell your representative that you want immigration reform now!

Write your representative today and let him/her know that you represent the majority of Americans who support commonsense and comprehensive immigration reform. Urge your member to support legislation that can be negotiated with the Senate bill and ultimately signed by the President.

08/28/2013

For six years the Fulbright-mtvU Fellowship has been giving studious young people opportunities to unleash the power of music on a global stage.

08/07/2013

Do you have friends on campus who are international students? Here's 5 reasons how the Senate immigration bill could help them.

On June 27, 2013, the U.S. Senate passed a bipartisan, comprehensive immigration bill: S. 744, the Border Security, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration Modernization Act of 2013. Because of NAFSA’s work with the bill authors, several key provisions that are favorable to international education wer...

08/05/2013

Looking for free sites to work on your foreign language skills? Check out this list and share with us any others you recommend.

Any language learner with a good internet connection is spoilt for choice when it comes to self-study, says Anne Merritt. Here are five of the best...

07/30/2013

Pulling up stakes and moving across borders can be exciting, embarrassing and unexpectedly educational. Whitney Cox writes about ten lessons learned from life in a new country.

03/28/2013

NCAA basketball star makes plans to study abroad in Nigeria

STANFORD, Calif. (AP) — A few days after Stanford's season ends, Chiney Ogwumike will pack her bags and leave for one of her longest and most important road trips yet.The Pac-12 Player of the Year is headed to her parents' native Nigeria to be an intern with the Minister of Petroleum. Yes, that's ri...

03/25/2013

More on the Ramapo College Study Abroad students who attended NAFSA Association of International Educators Annual Advocacy Day to lobby their members of Congress on the value study abroad and the need for commonsense immigration reform:

NAFSA’s annual Advocacy Day, attended by 155 members from 38 states, took on a younger look this year, hosting seventeen students from New Jersey, New York, Massachusetts, Virginia, and Ohio. Among them were students from Ramapo College in Mahwah, New Jersey who attended meetings with staff for New ...

03/25/2013

[VIDEO] Ramapo College Study Abroad student Valerie Torrizo on why she lobbied her members of Congress about the value of study abroad:

Ramapo College student Valerie Torrizo shares her thoughts on why she lobbied her members of Congress about the value of study abroad at NAFSA's 2013 Advocac...