We know that the world is a dangerous place and that human beings are capable of horrific acts. After the most destructive war in world history and the coordinated decimation of 6 million European Jews, humanity said “never again.” But it did happen again—in Cambodia, in Rwanda, in Bosnia, and in Sudan. In fact, it was happening for centuries […]
Monthly Archives: March 2018
The WVC Study Abroad Program completed the process of awarding all Global Citizenship Study Abroad Program student scholarships for 2018. SAP worked with the Scholarship Committee and Advancement Office to process a total of 85 applications. A total of 45 students were awarded full or partial scholarships. These 45 very diverse students represent a multitude of majors and […]
“The gravest security threat of our time is the danger of a nuclear weapon being detonated in one of our cities.” William J. Perry in My Journey at the Nuclear Brink On 16 March 2018 the Stanford University Global Studies Education Partnership for Internationalizing Curriculum (EPIC) and the Stanford Program on International and Cross-Cultural Education (SPICE) held […]
Each year, WVC celebrates Persian New Year with traditional music, dancing, food, tea and a haft-seen (a collection of seven items that symbolize hope for the new year: sprout or grass, dried sweet fruit, sweet pudding, apples, garlic, vinegar and sumac, a Persian spice made from crushed sour red berries0. It’s a celebration of spring […]
Behindokht Noormanesh, an integral member of the team that makes WVC’s Study Abroad Program possible, works at WVC as a Financial Aide Specialist. Among many of her duties, she processes all of the scholarship applications that students submit, and sits on the Scholarship Committees that review the applications and award the scholarships. In January 2018, […]
On Saturday 3 March, Drs. Tim Kelly and Dulce María Gray represented Study Abroad Program at the 2018 WVC Fourth Open House for High School Juniors and Seniors. This annual event draws hundreds of students and their parents to the beautiful WVC campus. They come from around Silicon Valley and all of the South Bay. Attendees […]
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