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The Alliance for Global Education, LLC is a not-for-profit partnership of the College of Global Studies at Arcadia University and the Institute for Study Abroad at Butler University. The Alliance was formed with the vision of opening study abroad destinations in Asia to an ever-growing and more diverse U.S. undergraduate population. Both partner institutions are pioneers in the field of study abroad and have been providing academically rigorous and culturally enriching study abroad programs for over 40 years.
The Alliance provides stimulating, interdisciplinary study abroad programs in China and India that maintain the high academic standards, strong student services, and careful health and safety measures of our partner institutions. Our core mission is to develop and promote innovative programs in vibrant, dynamic Asian countries that are of ever-increasing scholarly, political, and economic interest.
The Alliance for Global Education currently offers the following academic programs:
- Contemporary India: Development, Environment, Public Health
- Xi’an: Art, History, and the Silk Road
- China Now: Development, Politics, and Social Change in Beijing
- International Business in Shanghai
- Intensive Language in Shanghai
- Contemporary Chinese Society and Language in Shanghai
- Engineering Summer Term in Shanghai
- Internships are available in Pune, Beijing and Shanghai!
What's New at the Alliance
Scholarship News! Please visit our Scholarship page for information about the Boren Scholarship and the Pilot Summer 2010 Gilman International Scholarship, perfect for students interested in the Engineering and Society Summer Term in Shanghai. The deadlines are quickly approaching so act fast!
We are pleased to announce that we have has been chosen to administer two of the U.S. Department of State's Critical Languages Scholarship (CLS) sites in China. The CLS program is part of a U.S. government inter-agency effort to expand the number of Americans studying and mastering critical need foreign languages. Students awarded the full scholarship to study intensive Chinese in Beijing at the Beijing Language and Culture University (BLCU) or in Shanghai at Fudan University at the intermediate or advanced level. Students will take 20 hours per week of Chinese language during the summer 2010 semester, live with Chinese roommates (Shanghai) or host families (Beijing), and have a peer language tutor. Please check the CLS website for additional information.
All eyes are on H1N1. Click here to read about measures the Alliance is taking and recommendations for our India and China spring students.
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