STATE, SOCIETY and CULTURE in the UNITED STATES

June 22 - August 4, 2005
Dickinson College

Welcome to the Study of the United States Institute: State, Society and Culture in the United States website. This innovative summer program will provide 21 visiting South Asian undergraduate student leaders from Bangladesh, India and Pakistan with an understanding of political and social institutions, history and service organizations in the United States. The Institute is being hosted by Dickinson College, an institution consistently recognized on a national level for its long-standing excellence in global education. The program was developed by and is sponsored through a cooperative agreement with the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, for the purposes of expanding U.S. engagement with governments and people of South Asia to promote economic growth, education, and political freedom.

The Institute consists of several parts: four weeks of academic seminars at Dickinson College; extended study tours in New York City and Washington D.C.; day-trips to Baltimore, Philadelphia, Gettysburg and other local sites of interest; and many opportunities to engage in community service learning activities and community events. We intend this website to serve as a continuing venue in which participants in the program can maintain contact with one another, as well as Dickinson College faculty and staff, for years to come. We hope that it will provide the opportunity for us all to engage in the important, enduring dialogue which Dickinson aims to create.

Institute participants should take the pre-program survey: http://egoals.state.gov/Surveys/index50.cfm