Senator Collins Receives International Student House’s 2018 Global Leadership Award

Click HERE for a high-resolution photo of Senator Collins with (from left to right) Jan Längle, a resident scholar from Germany; Cynthia Bunton, President of ISH-DC Board of Directors; and Varsha Thebo, a resident scholar from Pakistan.

Washington, D.C. – U.S. Senator Susan Collins received the International Student House of Washington, D.C.’s, (ISH-DC) 2018 Global Leadership Award for her distinguished service to our country by promoting international understanding and education.  ISH-DC’s Global Leadership Awards Dinner celebrates the organization’s mission of providing a diverse community of graduate students, academics, and post-graduate interns with a unique cross-cultural experience.

“With 22 locations around the world, the International Student House is part of a great movement to help the young people of today become the enlightened leaders of tomorrow,” said Senator Collins.  “Their mission – to inspire and cultivate new generations of leaders to accelerate the social, economic, and political changes essential for peace – is more essential than ever before.  I am honored to receive this award and will continue to work with others to bring hope and peace to the world.”

During her remarks, Senator Collins also praised the broader movement to help the young people today become the enlightened leaders of tomorrow.  Senator Collins held up the Seeds of Peace camp in Otisfield, Maine, as a prime example of this effort.  Over the past 26 years, Seeds of Peace has brought together more than 7,000 young people from 27 countries to promote understanding, reconciliation, acceptance, dialogue, coexistence, and peace.

More than 15,000 students from over 140 countries have lived at ISH-DC since the organization’s founding in 1936.  ISH-DC is a member of International Houses Worldwide, a consortium of 22 International Houses from around the world, including Australia, Romania, the United Kingdom, Canada, and the United States.  These Houses are separate, independent, non-profit institutions united by one mission: To provide students of diverse nationalities and cultures with the opportunity to live and learn together in a community of mutual respect, understanding, and international friendship.   Students accepted into the House pay affordable rents with ISH-DC also awarding several scholarships every year.