The Towson University Study Abroad Office is sharing a new scholarship opportunity through the “Critical Language Scholarship” (CLS). Through this program, American college students can participate in a fully funded study abroad program while learning different languages. The languages offered in this program are Arabic, Azerbaijani, Bangla, Chinese, Hindi, Indonesian, Japanese, Korean, Persian, and many more.
The CLS program expands American values across the world while also spreading diversity within the United States. Participants learn another language and culture while improving and refining their future career skills.
But there are so many more ways students can benefit from this program. By participating in CLS, students can have a study abroad experience of a lifetime while being able to save financially. Studying abroad can be expensive, but it does not have to be. That is why at the Towson University Study Abroad Office we encourage all students to take advantage of scholarship opportunities.
Our office would also like to share the different impacts the CLS program has made. All of this information can be found on their website, but here are a few highlights. One impact CLS has made is through communities. In reference to the CLS website statistics, there have been 432 scholars selected from congressional districts, 231 from different universities, and 42% of scholars were people of color.
Another impact of CLS is through careers. About 91% of CLS scholars say that CLS benefited their future career, while 62% used the cultural knowledge they learned from CLS in their career and within these numbers, 23% were STEM majors.
If you are interested in learning more about how you can benefit from CLS, check out their website. It is not too late to think about applying to study abroad scholarships. And why not apply to a scholarship that gives you the benefit of learning a new language? You may surprise yourself on how much you may learn. So what are you waiting for? Apply today! Applications close for Summer 2021 close November 17th, 2020.
All information on this article can be found at: https://clscholarship.org