I would never trade my experience in the Peace Corps for anything, and yet that does not mean the journey was easy.
Tag: Peace Corps Prep
Embracing challenges: My beginnings in the Peace Corps
Peace Corps. For a lot of people, especially those who’ve already served, it means a lot. I’ve always heard former volunteers use words like “amazing,” “cathartic,” and “life-changing” to describe their service abroad.
Stevenson Center students deliver excellence
The Stevenson Center attracts bright and accomplished graduate students to its Fellows programs and undergraduate students to Peace Corps Prep. This academic year brought recognition of students’ success, on campus and off campus.
Corps and Coffee: A conversation about service, March 5
In celebration of Peace Corps Week and AmeriCorps Week, the Stevenson Center presents Corps and Coffee, an informational event for students interested in positions with these organizations.
Teaching overseas with Peace Corps
Peace Corps volunteers serve communities worldwide in six different sectors, or kinds of jobs. The largest sector is education, which has given Illinois State graduates Max Plonczynski and Alejandra Villalobos the perfect setting to put their teaching skills to the test.
My journey from Peace Corps Prep to the Coverdell Fellows program, and everything in between
My journey to where I am today—a Peace Corps Paul D. Coverdell Fellow—began when I was about 12 and first learned about the Peace Corps.
Friends for Peace RSO helps students prep for Peace Corps
Friends for Peace became a registered student organization (RSO) last year to connect students interested Peace Corps and similar service opportunities. The founding members were all part of the new Peace Corps Prep program and wanted to support each other in meeting the requirements.
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Peace Corps is a life-changing, career-launching opportunity for Illinois State students.
Peace Corps Volunteer experiencing life in Ukraine
Emily Blankenberger is using her interdisciplinary education from the Stevenson Center for Community and Economic Development as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Ukraine. Placed with an ecology nonprofit, Blankenberger is focusing on organizational development to make a lasting difference.
Peace Corps Fellow brings lessons from Ethiopia to graduate work
Fueled by her desire to serve, Alesha Klein became a Peace Corps volunteer in Ethiopia. Now in the second year of her master’s degree with the Stevenson Center for Community and Economic Development, Klein is completing her professional practice in Washington, D.C., with a focus on financial empowerment.