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| Nancy Stroupe, MA, MPH |
Nancy Stroupe, MA, MPH, at the University of Arizona’s Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health, has been selected for the U.S. Department of State Critical Language Scholarship (CLS) Program to study Indonesian in Indonesia during the summer.
Ms. Stroupe is a PhD student in the Epidemiology program and associate program director for Research, Evaluation, and Analysis in the health promotion sciences division of the Zuckerman College of Public Health.
The prestigious scholarship is highly competitive with 630 students chosen from more than 5200 applicants this year.
Stroupe is among the undergraduate and graduate students selected for the U.S. Department of State’s CLS Program in 2012 to study Arabic, Azerbaijani, Bangla/Bengali, Chinese, Hindi, Korean, Indonesian, Japanese, Persian, Punjabi, Russian, Turkish, or Urdu languages. U.S. students will spend eight to ten weeks in intensive language institutes this summer in 14 countries where these languages are spoken. The CLS Program provides fully-funded, group-based intensive language instruction and structured cultural enrichment experiences designed to increase language fluency and cultural competency. CLS Program participants are expected to continue their language study beyond the scholarship and apply their critical language skills in their future professional careers.
Stroupe departs for a two day orientation in Washington, D.C. on June 12th before heading to Indonesia where she will live with a host family in Malang until mid-August.
The CLS Program is part of a U.S. government effort to expand dramatically the number of Americans studying and mastering critical foreign languages. Selected finalists for the 2012 CLS Program hail from all 50 states, Puerto Rico and the District of Columbia and represent 239 public and private universities from across the United States, including land-grant universities, liberal arts colleges, minority-serving institutions, and community colleges.
The CLS Program is administered by the Council of American Overseas Research Centers (CAORC) and American Councils for International Education.
