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Tag: U.S. Department of State

Jenn Jacobs nets federal grant to create national women’s sport summit in Belize

November 13, 2019 Mark McGowan enewsletter, KNPE

Alternative Spring BAE 2.0 will touch down in Belize in Spring 2020 with a different mission than its Engage Global debut in 2019, thanks to a $10,000 award from the U.S. Department of State. Jenn Jacobs, an assistant professor of Sport and

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James Cohen studies novel ideas to teach English during Fulbright visit to Uruguay

September 18, 2019 Mark McGowan CI, enewsletter

James Cohen will remember the dirt roads, and the long drives to reach the most rural schools in Uruguay. He’ll remember touring those buildings, seeing the kitchens where the teachers and students eat and the bedrooms where the teachers sleep during the

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Engage Global contingent relates empowering lessons from Sri Lanka

September 12, 2018 Mark McGowan enewsletter, KNPE

How it began is worth a smile. “They arrived in Sri Lanka on 13th August,” writes Sri Lanka’s YMCA of Pamunugama, telling of its visitors from NIU and elsewhere in the United States, “and in the evening … went on a boat

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Engage Global debuts in Sri Lanka

August 13, 2018 Mark McGowan enewsletter, Graduate Programs, KNPE, KNPE alumni eNewsletter

Days after the Department of Kinesiology and Physical Education’s Sri Lankan visitors left the NIU campus in late April, their hosts already were planning to book flights to Asia for August. That trip began Aug. 12 – and included four students who

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Sri Lankan visitors experience ways to instill social, personal responsibility through sport

May 15, 2018 Mark McGowan enewsletter, KNPE, KNPE alumni eNewsletter

Sport is spoken the world around. That certainly proved true last month in the NIU Department of Kinesiology and Physical Education, where 25 young visitors from Sri Lanka and the Maldives learned about boxing from, and taught cricket to, students from DeKalb’s

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Belizean Youth Sport Coalition takes next step as project wraps

January 31, 2017 Mark McGowan enewsletter, KNPE

Just look at the numbers. Three years. Twenty-seven organizations. One hundred and twenty-one coaches, teachers and youth workers trained – 13 of them traveling to the United States for that preparation, partly delivered by three NIU students. Fifteen hundred youth enrolled in

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