Waxhaw Area High Schools Among 11 Selected
From NC CIEE Global Navigator Scholarships to Study Abroad
Successful first year leads to more grants to support cross-cultural exchange in 2016
Story and pictures provided by Christen Graham with Global Navigator
(WAXHAW, NC AND PORTLAND, MAINE)
– Following a successful first year in 2015,
CIEE: Council on International Educational
Exchange is renewing its Global Navigator
Scholarship program with eleven North
Carolina schools that participated in the
pilot, including Cuthbertson and Marvin
Ridge High Schools.
ship program, we are introducing international experience into more students’
lives earlier in their education. The new
perspectives they gain from these experiences will shape their view on everything
that comes next – from choices of college
and career to where and how they’ll live
out their lives.”
The other schools are Asheboro High
School, East Mecklenburg High School,
Enloe High School, High Point Central High
School, Military and Global Leadership
Academy, Millbrook High School, Monroe
High School, Northwest High School and
South Mecklenburg High School.
Global Navigator schools are chosen
through a competitive assessment of their
commitment to foreign-language acquisition and global education. Selected
schools provide rigorous, integrated, and
globally-focused academic programs,
while serving students from diverse economic and cultural backgrounds.
CIEE is doubling the total number of high
schools and students participating in the
program. More than 80 schools across
the United States have been identified to
receive grants of $20,000 each to help their
students participate in CIEE Global N ]