Category Archives: American Language and Culture Program
VIA continues to diversify the student population we have on our programs and we were very excited to establish a partnership with the School of Economics at Peking University (PKU). Four students from PKU joined the American Language & Culture … Continue reading
Taiwanese Business and Culture (TBC) is a unique and engaging program designed to introduce VIA alumni to different facets of business and culture in Taiwan through company visits, lectures on Taiwanese business and economy, cultural presentations, and touring activities. Members … Continue reading
VIA’s Japan Alumni Committee (JAC) Junior Group led by Keisuke Inagaki (2011 ALC alum) organized events to support this year’s 60 participants on the American Language & Culture (ALC) program from Japan and passed on their love and appreciation of … Continue reading
President of the Taiwan Alumni Committee (TAC), Serena Lin (2009 ALC1) reports about recent volunteering by alumni in Taiwan: After coming back from the American Language & Culture (ALC) program, the Taiwan Alumni Committee (TAC) has been devoted to doing … Continue reading
Monterey Institute of International Studies recent graduate, Emily Normile, joins VIA as the 2012 American Language and Culture (ALC) Program Director. Over the course of the next few months, she will be preparing for the arrival of university students from … Continue reading
Outgoing TAC president and American Language and Culture program alumna, Viola Lee, shares below the most touching experience she has had during her more than yearlong TAC presidency. On the day of the Taiwan Alumni Committee (TAC) reunion our members, … Continue reading
Jeannie Tai attended the American Language & Culture program in 2009 from National Tsing Hua University in Taiwan. Three years later, she is back in California. Below, she shares her thoughts on the impact of ALC and what study abroad … Continue reading
Entrepreneur Hans Huang joined VIA’s American Language and Culture (ALC) program in 2007 as a freshman from National Taiwan University. He has just graduated. In May he shared the impact of the program and plans for his latest venture. It started … Continue reading
Greetings from Japan! My name is Kota Izawa and I was a participant on the American Language and Culture (ALC) program in 2004. Through the ALC program, participants tackle research projects in English, visit IT companies, run around Stanford’s big … Continue reading
In July VIA welcomed our Stanford Programs (SP) coordinators and Asia Programs (AP) volunteers to Stanford University for training. We are excited that for the first time in recent memory we held the training for both sides of VIA (SP … Continue reading
