On Friday, May 15, 2015, twelve students from seven countries celebrated the culmination of a year of hard work at Bunker Hill Community College. They came to Boston from countries as far-flung as Bangladesh, Colombia, India, Indonesia, Pakistan, South Africa and Turkey. The students were part of a U.S. State […]
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The 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 […]
read moreAnnual Retreat: January 10th – 16th, 2015 in Washington, D.C. & New York City
Following the holiday season, the CCI Program will embark once again on its exciting and eventful annual retreat. This year, the group of 130 program participants representing 12 countries (Bangladesh, Brazil, Colombia, Cote d’Ivoire, Egypt, Ghana, India, Indonesia, Kenya, Pakistan, South Africa and Turkey) will meet in Washington, D.C. to […]
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NOVA International Education Week
Program participants, faculty and staff members gathered during International Education Week at the Northern Virginia Community College (NOVA) Alexandria Campus. The weeklong series of events took place during the week of November 17th-21st, and featured Community College Initiative (CCI) Program participants from the Alexandria and Annandale Campuses. CCI participants designed […]
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Alumni Spotlight: Sarah Dawood
Sarah Dawood, a Community College Initiative Program participant from Pakistan, studied Business Administration and Management at Miami Dade College in the pilot year of the CCC program in 2010. As a divorcee, a woman and a mother of two, Sarah struggled to achieve her dreams in Pakistan – her lifelong […]
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Understanding Immigration at the Gubernatorial Candidate Forum
At Bunker Hill Community College, the topic of immigration to the United States has been on the minds of CCI Program participants. Boston is a diverse place to begin with, but because Bunker Hill recently enrolled over 800 international students, and because immigration policy consistently makes national news, it’s no wonder why the topic […]
read moreModel UN Team Excels
Mesa Community College’s Model United Nations team excelled at the 64th Annual Model United Nations Far West Conference in San Francisco this past weekend. Mesa participants represented Pakistan, Mexico, Jordan, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo at the conference, debating over a dozen topics, including Security Council reform, eliminating […]
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