NCDE Access to Exchange Externship Application Winter 2025
Thank you for your interest in the NCDE Access to Exchange Externship. The goal of the externship is to provide you with the opportunity to develop or enhance professional and leadership skills related to inclusive international exchange while supporting the NCDE's outreach efforts.

Please fill out all fields. Once you hit submit, you cannot go back and make changes to your application. We recommend that you start by filling out your answers in a separate document to avoid losing work. Make sure to completely fill out both pages of this form and to think carefully about your essay responses and outreach activity  proposal. Applications are due by Monday March 3, 2025. Finalists will be selected by April 7.

We are open to all outreach projects ideas. Some that connect to current projects of the NCDE that are of particular interest are the following:
  • Create an access guide for a specific country of interest.
  • Create a guide for community college students with disabilities interested in studying abroad.
  • Interview people with disabilities about how they have used their international exchange experience as a boost to their careers.
  • Put together resources featuring travelers to or from the Asia Pacific region.
  • Generate creative content connected to your education abroad such as art, poetry, short stories, or music.
  • Conduct outreach to other international students with disabilities studying in the United States (for  current international student or recent alum).
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First Name *
Last Name *
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Email Type *
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Phone number including country code *
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How did you learn about the NCDE Externship?
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Meeting availability (PDT Los Angeles)
As part of the externship, we will be holding three seminars, which will include an introduction, a discussion of accessibility and an opportunity to meet an international education or development professional with a disability to learn about their experience. You are required to attend at least two of these. Please select the time blocks that would work best for your schedule. Times are in PDT (Los Angeles).
10 AM to 12 PM
2 PM to 3 PM
3 PM to 5 PM
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Why are you interested in the Access to Exchange Externship? *
What is your experience with disability? Please describe. *
What is your international exchange experience, including studying, researching, volunteering, or working abroad? Share information about the program such as duration, location, and purpose of program. *
Project Outline: Describe how you will carry out your virtual outreach project to meet your objectives. *
Goals/Objectives: Describe the overall goal and objective(s) of your virtual outreach project. Organize your answer like a list with each item including a number and a single sentence for each objective. *
Resources, Tools or Skills: Please describe the resources, tools or skills that you will require in order to complete your project, and how you plan to obtain the ones that you do not have. Which ones do you already possess, and which ones will you need from others? Will you be learning a new skill while completing your externship? Who else will you require support from, a.k.a. your school, a friend, an assistant? (Please note that MIUSA will only provide your honorarium and funding support for reasonable accommodations.)  *
Accessibility: Our goal is to make sure that people with all disabilities have access to international education, and that starts with them having access to whatever project you decide to share with your community. Please outline in bullet form the steps that you will take to ensure that your community project is accessible to all. (MIUSA can provide funding for reasonable accommodations for events you might host.)  *
Evaluation: You will be required to report on the outcome(s) of your virtual outreach project.  Please discuss the final deliverable that you will submit to receive your honorarium, e.g. a single page report, a photo collage or graphic, blog post, etc.  Please report on at least one quantitative metric, such as number of people who participate, number of resources identified, number of visits to your blog, etc., that you will use to illustrate your success. *
Would you like to be added to the Access to Exchange NCDE E-news to learn about more State Department scholarship opportunities and to learn more about upcoming initiatives to increase the participation of people with disabilities in international exchange?
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