Career impact
Study Abroad and Language Learning: A large-scale study
The Professional Lives of Language Study Abroad Alumni, by Celeste Kinginger and Jingyaun Zhuan, finds that language-based study abroad experiences open doors, of all kinds.
What Employers Look For
Surveys of employers repeatedly show that what they most seek are graduates with transferable skills that they can demonstrate.
Students who study abroad for at least a semester, in a "high-impact" program in another language, acquire/increase these core skills and, what's more, can...
Why are Languages so Foreign (to U.S. Higher Education)?
Most readers of this letter agree on the importance of language acquisition. What can be (and is being) done about the apparent decline of language instruction on the US campus?