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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 French Women Dada Writers in the Resistance Have to Tell Us: An intern's journey
When Emily Wieder enrolled at IFE Strasbourg and accepted an internship at the National University Library (BNU), she had no idea she would run across Dada art and find a calling. “It all started during my time in Strasbourg. The history and the art was all there. The city really was my...
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?.
Your Calling is calling
It's usually not quite that simple, but it is a gratifying surprise to watch an IFE student discover that the work they and their host organization are doing embodies the career they had been imagining for themselves. A couple of examples will tell the...
“Language Skills have been Central”: An IFE alum's career journey
So, you're studying a foreign language, maybe two. People ask what for? IFE alum Elisielle Lopes' experience provides some great answers ( + Elisielle's video discussing the joy of languages at work).