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Abby Falik named “100 Most Intriguing Entrepreneurs of 2017″ by Goldman Sachs

2017-10-18

Goldman Sachs is recognizing Global Citizen Year and its CEO and Founder Abby Falik as one of the 100 Most Intriguing Entrepreneurs at 2017 Builders + Innovators Summit in Santa Barbara, California. Goldman Sachs selected Abby as one of 100 entrepreneurs from multiple industries to be honored at the two-day event. Global Citizen Year...

AFAR Vanguard 2017: Abby Falik, Founder of Global Citizen Year

2017-09-27

By Jenn Flowers 9.27.2017 From the November/December 2017 issue The visionary entrepreneur bridges education and travel for students across the nation. In 2016, former President Obama’s daughter Malia took a year off before starting college. Her decision made headlines—but Abby Falik, the founder and CEO of Global Citizen Year, hopes that someday soon, such a choice would be completely...

Alumni Spotlight on Grace Mannix: A Bridge to the World

2017-09-21

Penn State student has transformative experiences on campus and around the globe By Lauren Ingram – September 21, 2017 UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Grace Mannix, a junior studying recreation, park and tourism management in Penn State’s Schreyer Honors College, spent her summer vacation gathering cold-weather gear and giving herself a crash course in the Russian language. This fall,...

Taking Charge of My Own Learning

2017-09-17

By Shannon Yang “Why are you taking a gap year?” The question would often catch me unprepared, like a storm coming earlier than forecasted. I would often shrug and tell the curious asker that I just needed a little more time, or that I felt burnt out, or that I was young for my grade...

Role Reboot: Finding Purpose In Turbulent Times

2017-09-07

By Ann MacDougall and Abby Falik September 7, 2017 Our country can use all hands on deck. In his spring graduation speech at Harvard, Mark Zuckerberg issued a “generational challenge…not only to create new jobs, but [to] create a renewed sense of purpose.” After Charlottesville, the DACA debate, and growing divides across the country, as well as natural disasters that call for a...

Spotlight on Global Citizen Year & Lafayette College Alum Barker Carlock

2017-09-05

Filling the Gap with International Experience By Bryan Hay Barker Carlock ’17 wanted to be a medical anthropologist and worked alongside a triage nurse in Senegal thanks to Global Citizen Year. The program finds opportunities for high school seniors who set aside seven and a half months after graduating to experience another culture, while still keeping their...

Compulsory Education is an oxymoron (back-to-school rant)

2017-09-05

Compulsory Education is an oxymoron (back-to-school rant) Effective education is rarely done TO people. It’s done with them. I had my first professional teaching gig forty years ago this summer. Since then, I’ve taught at institutions like NYU and Tufts, at community colleges, from the stage, one on one and most of all, on the vanguard of...

Getting Smart: Educating for Global Competencies

2017-09-05

Educating for Global Competence: 6 Reasons, 7 Competencies, 8 Strategies, 9 Innovations By Tom Vander Ark – September 5, 2017 Everything is global–trade and economics, media and information. Young people are more likely than ever to interact with people from different cultures while at home and on the road. As we become more connected, more interdependent, how do...

Wisconsin Public Radio: Students Opt For Gap Year Before College

2017-08-31

The Joy Cardin Show interviews Global Citizen Year CEO Abby Falik and Senegal Fellow Sarah Candee (’18). Some recent high school grads are skipping college move-in day and hopping planes to faraway lands. Our guest is a Wisconsin woman who’s spending the next year in Africa instead of a dorm. Plus a gap year advocate...