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Travel, study, and work opportunities in 17 countries for 1, 2, or 3 months.
Amizad encourages intercultural exploration and understanding through community-driven volunteer programs and service-learning programs. Programs in the Brazilian Amazon, Bolivian Andes, the Greater Yellowstone Region, and Australia.
Offering courses in financial accounting, reporting, and analysis.
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There are over 1000 books and binders within the CDO, categorically separated to help your internship, job, or post-graduate search. Some of the resources are career specific, broken down into particular fields of interest, while others are more general career reference materials. There are domestic and international listings, with tips on interviewing, finding housing, researching prospective companies or colleges, and study guides for standardized graduate school tests. You are encouraged to make full use of the assistance provided by the counselors and CDO peer advisers.
CIEE is the leading U.S. non-governmental international education organization. CIEE creates and administers programs that allow high school and university students and educators to study, volunteer, work and teach abroad.
Partner with a grassroots organization in Latin America, East Africa, or India to improve a community’s social conditions, economic opportunities and overall environment. Gain practical hands-on experience, contribute your skills and talent, and make a difference through FSD’s flexible international programs for individuals and groups.
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Find resources for scholarships, fellowships, grants, awards, and other financial support with the only online resource devotedly exclusively to foundations that fund individuals. E-mail your name and year of graduation to cdo@vassar.edu and we will send you a username and password.
An international education and experiential travel resource. Our directories contain over 25,000 opportunities abroad updated daily including study abroad, internships, volunteer opportunities, teach abroad, language schools and much more.
Spanish language programs in Central American countires that utilize a theoretically critical perspective as well as hands-on experience to help students gain insight into current social and economic realities and their effects on women, the poor, and the environment.
One of the largest international training and educational exchange organizations.
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Search a variety of programs to intern, work, teach, study and volunteer abroad.
A premier teacher of outdoor skills and leadership education; programs from 10 days to 1 semester.
Advice and information about working, studying, volunteering and traveling abroad.
Outward Bound is a non-profit educational organization with five core programs that change lives, build teams, and transform schools.
The Study Away Office at Vassar has a variety of opportunities to take your education aborad.
Directory of study abroad resources and web sites.
Study abroad options at UK universities.
A comprehensive site from the University of California, Irvine with links to all types from international opportunities, from internships to study away to volunteering and working.
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V-NET is a database of Vassar alumnae/i and some parents (of students and alumnae/i) who have offered their volunteer services as “Career Advisers.” This means that they have made themselves available as volunteers to offer mentoring, internships, advice and guidance. This database replaces “CAP” and contains more than 2,000 individuals who updated their information very recently.
To access V-NET, you must first register with the AAVC Online Community.
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