In The News Minute article “Giving wings to dreams: How the US consulate in Hyderabad is helping disadvantaged students,” three Indian CCI alumni who studied in Arizona, Wisconsin, and Texas during the 2016-17 program year shared about their experience studying abroad during their CCI Program year. They commented on all […]
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Three CCI alumni who studied Information Technology at Fox Valley Technical College during the 2016-17 program year have started a program to bring computer skills training to underserved people in South Africa and Brazil. Nkululeko Victor Masombuka and Juliet Malambe of South Africa, and Daniel da Silva Farias of Brazil, […]
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The Community College Initiative (CCI) Program’s annual midyear Pathways to Success Program is fast approaching. This year all 211 CCI participants from 14 community college campuses across the Unites States will be joining together in Arizona for a week-long program “designed to build participant skills in leadership, reflection and goal setting […]
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The Community College Initiative (CCI) Program has been featured in U.S. News and World Report in an article about how government funded programs strengthen international exchange at community colleges. U.S. News education staff writer Kelly Mae Ross writes: “Students don’t need to attend a four-year college to have an international education experience. The […]
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This article was originally posted on Community College Daily by Ellie Ashford State Dept.-sponsored program promotes global understanding Young people from developing countries spend a year at an American community college, where they gain career skills, engage in the community, learn about U.S. culture and get inspired to make a […]
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Ashok Pal, a Community College Initiative (CCI) Program 2014-15 alum, has made headlines in two of India’s papers. Read excerpts from the articles below. The following excerpt was originally posted in The Economic Times. US stint makes Kolkata street kid Ashok Pal an IT entrepreneur KOLKATA: Brought up on the […]
read moreThe Community College Initiative Program made the news in Chicago print publications. This excerpt about the program and host campus, College of DuPage, comes from an article in The Chicago Tribune. Fifteen international students are gaining an education that extends far beyond the classroom through the U.S. State Department’s Community College […]
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