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USC undergraduates John “Alex” Nicholson III and Lindsay King will internationalize their college education as winners of the 2003 National Security Education Program Scholarship (NSEP). Since 1994, 22 USC students have won NSEP awards.
Nicholson, an international studies major, will study at American University in Cairo next fall and spring to acquire Arabic as a third language and to study Middle Eastern culture and politics. He hopes to work in CIA intelligence after graduate school.
“I am planning a government career and a non-Western international education is just as necessary as is an advanced degree for a long-term government career,” Nicholson said.
Lindsay King, a Russian studies major, will study language, literature, and culture during the fall semester at the Russian State Pedagogical University in Russia.
“This award combines my two main goals I hope to achieve during my college experience: a chance to see a different part of the world, and the opportunity to work in a public service career. I’m very excited that I’ll finally have the chance to see with my own two eyes, everything I’ve read and learned about,” says King.
NSEP is designed to provide American students with the resources and encouragement they need to acquire skills and experience in countries and areas of the world critical to the future security of the United States.
As a student of another culture and language, NSEP scholars begin to acquire the international competence they need to communicate effectively across borders, understand other perspectives, and analyze increasingly fluid economic and political realities. NSEP Scholarships are for a semester or year of study in another country.
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