CLS Program Alumni Profile
For alumni currently working
Please help us learn more about our CLS alumni! We invite you to submit an alumni
profile by answering the questions below and submitting 2-3 photos from your CLS
experience.
Our goal is to get profiles from as many alumni as possible! We want to hear about you.
You may be one of the lucky ones chosen to be featured in CLS materials.
Use of profiles:
The CLS Program is collecting alumni profiles for a variety of purposes. A few of these
include:
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Use on the CLS website for fellow alumni and prospective students to view
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Producing promotional materials about the CLS Program
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Featured articles on the CLS Newsletter
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Outreach and Recruitment Presentations
A select number of profiles will be posted on the CLS website and/or in the CLS
Newsletter. Profiles may also be used for other purposes.
By submitting this profile (including photos) to the CLS Program, you give permission to
the U.S. Department of State, American Councils for International Education, The Ohio
State University and Ohio University, to use the submitted information and attached
photos, in their original or edited format. Profiles may be used electronically or in paper
materials.
Photos:
Profiles are more interesting to read if they include photos. We encourage you to
submit 2-3 photos with your profile. Please submit one photo that can be used as a
head-shot of you and 1-2 other photos from your CLS experience.
Photos should follow the specifications below:
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JPEG or GIF file
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Properly focused.
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Include a caption. Captions should include:
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Location where taken
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Who is in the photo
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What is happening in the photo and why
**PLEASE DO NOT EMBED/PASTE THE PHOTO INTO THIS WORD DOC.**
E-MAIL ALL PHOTOS SEPARATELY AND INCLUDE CAPTIONS IN THE BODY OF YOUR E-MAIL.
CLS Alumni Profile
Please fill in the fields on the right side of this column. Feel free to leave responses
blank if you do not wish to answer.
Name
First name, Last name
CLS Language
Language and level studied during the CLS Program
CLS Year
CLS Institute(s)
Location/institute name
Where you attended
school
Where do you work?
How did you find out
about the position?
Did you feel as if your
CLS language gave
you an edge over
the other
candidates for the
position? How so?
Do you get to use your
CLS language on
your job?
If a student is
interested in
following a similar
career path, what
advice would you
give?
Share a short story
about your CLS
Program
experience.
What is your favorite
target language
word or phrase,
and what does it
mean in English?
Personal background
Name of college and major.
A good memory, a funny example of a time when you made a
cultural or linguistic mistake and learned from it, an experience that
greatly impacted you, etc.
If your target language is not written with the same letters as used
in English, please include the word/phrase as written in the target
language and a transliteration in English so that people who cannot
read the language can see what the word/phrase sounds like.
Please include some personal information about yourself:
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Where did you grow up?
What are your hobbies, interests, extracurricular activities?
Interesting facts about you or your family
Demographic information you feel is important to share (i.e.
you attend a community college, you are a student of color,
you identify as LGBT, you are a first-generation college
student, etc.)