RIT Education Abroad is raising funds to help support scholarships for students underrepresented in study abroad in partnership with Fund For Education Abroad (FEA)! RIT students have the opportunity to apply to an FEA scholarship and so your support can help underrepresented RIT students have the opportunity to study abroad!
The Equal Access Run will take place the week of September 7, with runners or walkers completing their fundraising and sharing their stories on September 12. Runners are invited to run (or walk!) 10K or any distance that presents a personal challenge, and to fundraise to meet our goal!
FEA gives preference to students in financial need, students of color, community college, and first-generation college students (all groups traditionally underrepresented in study abroad). In FEA's most recently awarded cohort, 88% were first-generation college students, 94% of scholars identified as students of color, and 35% were attending or transferred from community college
The mission of FEA has always been to diversify the face of study abroad to reflect the rich diversity of the United States, and we are proud that 94% of our last cohort identified as Students of Color. But in this moment of compounding crises, including a global pandemic and a reckoning of racial inequity, we know we can do even more as international educators. As the study abroad field pauses and looks to the future, let’s work together now to make sure more scholarship funding will be available for Black, Latinx, and other underrepresented students when programs resume.