A student-submitted look at Chinese Students Leadership Program (CSLP) training this summer. June 7, Visit to the City Hall, Health Department, and Fire Department Christopher Akins from Public Information Department at City of Springfield guided us inside the city hall and introduced several departments. We got the chance to meet the Mayor and City Manager. Mayor McClure … [Read more...] about Chinese Students Leadership Program Summer Training Journal

On July 17th, 49 students from the English Language Institute (ELI) exchanged cultural experience with 50 domestic students from Jump START program at Missouri State University. The event was started by Find Someone Who activity to get to know each other. The attendees then followed a question list to learn about students at their table in terms of their home country and the … [Read more...] about Students from the English Language Institute Get Involved on Campus and in the Community

Guest writer, Kelly Schlinder, Coordinator of the Foreign Language Institute With the goal of improving community outreach in mind, the Foreign Language Institute (FLI) at Missouri State University (MSU) offered language and culture camps for children in July 2018. It has been a very successful summer with 69 camp attendees, 6 language teachers, and loads of memories. The … [Read more...] about Language and Culture Camp at the Foreign Language Institute

On June 25th, the International Leadership and Training Center (ILTC) hosted the International Leadership Conference for 32 J-1 interns and trainees from CENET Branson. It is the forth cohort the ILTC has welcomed since 2016. Participants represented the nations of China, Dominican Republic, India, Jamaica, Russia, and Turkey. The day began with a presentation on … [Read more...] about 2018 International Leadership Conference