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The organization that would lead to the founding of SIT and to the establishment of World Learning, was originally founded in 1932, as The Experiment in International Living. In the early 1960s, Sargent Shriver, the first director of the Peace Corps and an alumnus of The Experiment in International Living, called on The Experiment to conduct orientation and training for the earliest Peace Corps Volunteers. These orientation and training activities gradually led to the establishment of an academic institution, the School for International Training (SIT), in 1964. SIT was founded by The Experiment’s first president, Gordon Boyce, and executive vice president, John Wallace. Today John Wallace’s vision lives on at SIT Graduate Institute in Brattleboro, VT, and in Washington, DC.

SIT strives to offer “…transformative reflective learning and research experiences that prepare agents of change to work across cultures and communities for the mutual benefit of all.” It is a global research-professional university that offers collaborative, learner-centered experiences.

SIT offers master’s degrees and graduate-level certificates, several of which can be earned online. Complete virtual internships and online degrees in programs that make the world your campus. SIT online degrees are a flexible and customized way to further careers without stepping off the career track.