Middlebury Language Schools is an official partner of Teach For America to provide funding for alumni. For 110 years Middlebury Language Schools has offered Immersion Programs and Graduate Programs. More than 1400 students find success with us each summer.
- Immersion Programs take place during the summers in Vermont. The 7- and 8-week programs are designed for beginning to advanced language learners. High school graduates to 80+ years old are eligible.
- Graduate Programs can be completed over four summers in Vermont, or in one summer and an academic year abroad or online, depending on the language. We enroll about 400 graduate students.
Benefits for TFA alumni and corps members:
Middlebury Language Schools will provide a scholarship. The award will be in the amount equal to a match of the Segal Education Award up to $1000k for a summer immersion program for TFA members, alumni or staff members per year, renewable for the duration of the program.
- The scholarships described above represent the minimum awards; applicants will be considered for additional merit-based and need-based aid based on the strength of the applications for both summer immersion programs and graduate programs.
- Provide informational virtual webinars to TFA alumni and corps members, as needed and mutually agreed upon by parties.
- Partner will share regular reporting on the number of TFA alumni accepted to the Middlebury Language Schools programs, both summer immersion programs and graduate programs, in the form of enrollment reports.
- Application fee waived for corps members and alumni with proof of affiliation with Teach For America. Please email languages@middlebury.edu for fee waiver.