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Causes: International, Promotion of International Understanding
Mission: Develop individual competency in dealing with and among diverse cultures, encourage realistic and mutually beneficial methodologies of dealing with cutural diversity, create educational programs and coalitions to communicate and further foregoing,give particular attention to asia
Programs: Academic year program (ayp) - offers opportunities for high school students from asia and europe to spend an academic year in an american high school with an american host family. The program places approximately 90 exchange students each year.
kakehashi - provides a fully funded, two-week study tour to japan for american middle, high school, undergraduate, and graduate students and their teachers.
japanese language education assistant program (j-leap) - goal is to create opportunities through teaching assistantships to nurture a new generation of qualified teachers of japanese language.
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