By Caroline Mancini The Spring 2026 Global Correspondents are here to share their journeys abroad! Global Correspondents are students who are studying abroad this semester, sharing snippets of their experiences with all of us. Get ready for takeovers of the study abroad Instagram and an article published by each student in the Wes and the…
By Zaynah Almasri (’27) Power of Language (POL) Week returned to Wesleyan this February with a vibrant series of events celebrating multilingualism, cultural exchange, and the powerful role language plays in shaping identity and community. Hosted by the Fries Center for Global Studies, the annual observance coincided with International Mother Language Day (February 21) and…
By Anita Deeg-Carlin Global Engagement Minor and international student Tamiraa Sanjaajav ’27 was recently celebrated in The Wesleyan Connection for the work she’s been doing back home in Mongolia to encourage expression and communication skills among underprivileged youth. By way of the 2024-2025 Student Political Engagement Fund, granted through the Allbritton Center for the Study…
By Anita Deeg-Carlin On Jumamosi (Saturday) morning, eight students in the Global Engagement Minor (GEM) will pile into a bus headed to JFK – ready to begin their long awaited 10-day journey to Nairobi, Kenya! Accompanied by Anita Deeg-Carlin (Director for Intercultural Learning and Coordinator of the GEM) and co-organizers Iddrisu Saaka (West African Dance professor), and…
By Cecilia Briana Foldessy-Stiegemeier ‘26 Last Friday, the Office of Fellowships hosted an alumni panel during the 2026 Power of Language Week. The event featured Teva Corwin (’25) and Czarina Yuffa (’25), both currently serving as Fulbright English Teaching Assistants, with Corwin in Mexico and Yuffa in Uzbekistan. Students were able to hear first-hand about…
ASE Global Bridges, a New York based non-profit focused on fostering connection between people of the US and Eurasian countries through Arts, Sports, and Education, is accepting applications for summer positions. Students interested in the importance of building bridges with international communities should take a look at the jobs ASE is posting for this summer.…
Artolution: Art Through Crisis is a series of collaborative and interdisciplinary artwork created across refugee camps and crisis zones all over the world. Artist and organizer Max Frieder travelled with and helped grow this collection of art, all the way from areas such as Bangladesh and Ukraine, to be put on display at the United…
By Zaynah Almasri February 18–28 | Wesleyan University | Fisk Hall & Across Campus The Fries Center for Global Studies is thrilled to announce that the eighth annual Power of Language (POL) Week has officially arrived! Originally launched as a multi-day conference, Power of Language has grown into a dynamic, week-long celebration organized around International…
By Sara Larson ’27 One of the things I’ve loved most, and will miss the most, about being in South Africa is how genuinely kind people are. South Africans are known for their warm, open nature, and I can honestly say they cultivate a deeply caring culture. I’ve been lucky to become close with a few local students, mostly…
The Fulbright US Student Program is the United States’ premier international cultural exchange program for US citizens and nationals. Through Fulbright, Wesleyan graduates can teach, research, or study in one of 140+ countries for an academic year. Come to our alumni panel to learn more about the program and to hear how the application process works at Wes! Wesleyan has…
By Charlotte Li ’28 When we think about what language can do for us, we often imagine it as a key that could unlock grand possibilities. It could open the door to new careers, unlock a foreign world and culture, and connect us to new people. We imagine language as a passport to somewhere else,…
By Sara Larson ’27 Academic Life Through the CIEE Arts and Sciences program, I have started my semester taking three classes at the University of Cape Town and one class with my CIEE program. UCT is a large university with nearly 30,000 students, so it has been interesting attending lectures with more than 200 students. At UCT I…
Scout McKibben-Baier ‘27 has become the first Wesleyan University student to receive the Obama-Chesky Voyager Scholarship for Public Service. As one of 100 Voyager Scholars selected nationwide in 2025, Mckibben-Baier, an English major and minor in civic engagement, will be working with the Obama Foundation, with funding from Airbnb CEO and co-founder Brian Chesky, to…
By Zaynah Almasri Power of Language Week invites us to celebrate bilingualism, multilingualism, second languageacquisition, and the linguistic and cultural diversity that shapes the Wesleyan community. Forme, that celebration is deeply personal. My relationship with language isn’t a neat timeline—it’sa layered, overlapping, sometimes messy story of sounds, scripts, and social worlds that havefollowed me across…
The Fries Center for Global Studies is delighted to announce that for the seventh consecutive year, Wesleyan University has been recognized as one of the top-producing academic institutions for the Fulbright U.S. Student Program, by the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs. Each year, Fulbright sends hundreds of Americans abroad to…
By Luné Ariel Maldonado, Class of 2027, She/Her Studying abroad is not as easy of a matter as it appears within stories or even testimonies from other students, and I had been really feeling the brunt of that by the time I was a month into my studies in the city of Melbourne in Australia. Being…
