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Additionally, once a semester UIC scholars participate in a summit focused on professional development, leadership, and intercultural competency development. Navigator Scholars participate as a cohort in online modules designed to prepare them for their education abroad experience. In addition to providing funding for an education abroad experience, the UIC Navigator Scholars program is a student leadership program with a strengths-based pedagogy. The scholarship is dedicated funding students have to study abroad. The scholarship is unique in that it is awarded at the end of the first year a student is at UIC giving them the rest of their academic career to plan for participation in an education abroad program.

The UIC Navigator Scholars program is a unique scholarship program designed to empower first-generation college students to engage in education abroad.įormerly called the FirstGen Flames Abroad program, the Navigator Scholars program is designed to award first-year students whose parent(s) did not complete a bachelor’s degree with a scholarship to study abroad.