Michael Terlep '16 to Study in Turkey with US Department of State Critical Language Scholarship

May 6, 2015

DePauw University junior Michael "Mickey" F. Terlep is the recipient of a U.S. Department of State Critical Language Scholarship (CLS) to study critical needs languages.  Terlep will use the award to travel this summer to Turkey, where he'll spend seven to ten weeks in an intensive language institute.

A political science major and English (literature) minor, Terlep is an Honor Scholar and member of the DePauw Forensics Team and spent the Fall 2014 semester studying in Istanbul. He is one of approximately 550 U.S. undergraduate and graduate students who are receiving a scholarship from the U.S. Department of State’s CLS Program in 2015. The recipients are being sent to of 13 countries to study Arabic, Azerbaijani, Bangla, Chinese, Hindi, Korean, Indonesian, Japanese, Persian, Punjabi, Russian, Turkish, or Urdu.

The CLS Program is part of a U.S. government effort to expand dramatically the number of Americans studying and mastering critical foreign languages. It provides fully-funded, group-based intensive language instruction and structured cultural enrichment experiences. CLS Program participants are expected to continue their language study beyond the scholarship and apply their critical language skills in their future professional careers.

Selected finalists for the 2015 CLS Program hail from 49 states, Puerto Rico and the District of Columbia and represent more than 200 institutions of higher education from across the United States, including public and private universities, liberal arts colleges, minority-serving institutions and community colleges.

CLS Program participants are among the more than 50,000 academic and professional exchange program participants supported annually by the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs to promote mutual understanding and respect between the people of the United States and the people of other countries. The CLS Program is administered by American Councils for International Education.

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