What's the Role of Peace Corps Now?
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WorldViewFALL 2020 First Volunteers Return to Global Summit: Peace Corps African Americans and Service in January p. 12 Connect to the Future p. 20 the Peace Corps to Come p. 32 What’s the role of Peace Corps now? C1_WV_Fall20.indd 1 10/28/20 3:06 PM Peace Corps Coverdell Fellowship and Thunderbird Defi ne your path to global leadership. scholarships available The Jackson Institute’s M.A. in Global Affairs prepares students to impact the global community through an academically rigorous, yet fl exible interdisciplinary program. Our M.A. program in Global Affairs allows you to design your own path through an GLOBALLY FOCUSED individualized course of study. This intellectually demanding and diverse program will provide you with the theoretical foundations, analytical skills, and professional training needed to FUTUREREADY work within the complexity of today’s public, nonprofi t, and private sectors worldwide. 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Technicians or engineers, how many of you are willing to work in the Foreign Service and spend your lives traveling around the world? … I think Americans are willing to contribute. But the e ort must be far greater than we have ever made in the past.” The idea caught hold. And within months the Peace Corps was launched. Photo courtesy Peace Corps The story: bit.ly/jfk-union 2 FALL 2020 WORLDVIEW WORLDVIEW FALL 2020 3 WorldViewNPCA is a not-for-profit 501(c)(3) educational and service Publisher Glenn Blumhorst DEPARTMENTS organization which is independent of the federal agency, Editor Steven Boyd Saum Peace Corps. BIG PICTURE Editor Emeritus David Arnold WorldView (ISSN 1047-5338) is published four times per 2 JFK at the Union Art Director Pamela Fogg year (Spring, Summer, Fall and Winter) by National Peace October 14, 1960: A founding moment at 60 Contributing Editor John Coyne Corps Association (1825 Connecticut Ave NW, Suite 800, Washington, D.C. 20009-5708). 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