View an updated chart of Participant Support’s current Area Team assignments, with the addition of two new staff.
The deadline to apply for the NSLI-Y scholarship is rapidly approaching! Digital brochures and posters are now available.
Keep your Area Team’s site looking fresh and up to date! Here’s how to optimize your team’s page for new visitors.
Attend this webinar to learn where to find AFS Marketing print materials, templates and more! In addition, hear about International Education Week and how you can get involved.
We’re excited to jump into Fall “Sending” season, when our focus shifts to encouraging U.S. students to go abroad and explore the world. This week, we’re promoting our programs in Ghana, where people value taking the time to enjoy the company of family and friends. Help give high schoolers a sense of what an exchange […]
We are excited to share the Belo USA programs being offered to AFS participants in the 2017-2018 program year. Many of you will remember the time when AFSers spent several days together on their AFS Bus Trips prior to returning home. These trips were fun, educational, and perhaps most importantly, they helped foster a sense […]
Eric Liu wrote a thoughtful article in the August 14, 2012 edition of The Atlantic entitled “Why There’s No Such Thing as Global Citizenship.” He identifies three areas that are commonly described as global citizenship, arguing that they are not such, and that when it comes to global citizenship, “there is no there there.” In other […]
AFS Welcome Families make it possible for international students to arrive in the U.S. in a timely manner and start making the most of their exchange experience. These welcome families usually host for 6-12 weeks before students move to permanent host families for the remainder of their program. Lots of volunteers and welcome families have […]
As we move into “sending” season, we want to make sure you’re aware of all the resources available to volunteers. New and updated marketing materials: We’re excited to announce that marketing has a newly-redesigned study abroad catalog that you can order on the Field Hub. The catalog includes an up-to-date list of year, semester, 4-8 […]
The student portal has been in place now for two sending cycles. During this time, many have joined us in discovering hiccups along the way. We’ve kept the application developers busy with updates and system tweaks which means that there are some aspects of the process that have been adjusted, improved, or redesigned completely. As […]