At a time when programs such as AmeriCorps and USAID have been cut, Peace Corps volunteers continue to address the globe's ...

The Peace Corps, an independent federal agency, was founded by President John F. Kennedy in 1961 to promote “world peace and friendship.” It has dispatched more than 240,000 American volunteers to 141 ...

In spite of widespread national concern about the inequity and inefficiency of the draft, an effective overhaul of the Selective Service Act will almost certainly not occur until the Act comes up for ...

Thinking about serving in the Peace Corps after you graduate? Hoping to work in international development? Interested in community service and intercultural understanding? Consider joining Sac State's ...

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Trumps’s government efficiency staff went through Peace Corps offices recently. Trump tried to dismantle the Peace Corps in his first term. And he has already “eliminate[d] key pillars of America's ...

On March 15th, Jody Olsen, the Director of the Peace Corps, posted a historic, and to some people surprising, letter on the Peace Corps website. For the first time in the history of the Peace Corps, ...

We joined the Peace Corps because we thought it would afford us a means of helping developing nations without imposing the United States' political and cultural values on them. We assumed that the ...

Nearly 7,000 Peace Corps currently serve in about 65 countries. Roughly one in five of them is sexually assaulted during that service, according to the results of a recent anonymous Peace Corps safety ...

The Peace Corps is eliminating more than 20 percent of its workforce, the agency announced to employees earlier this month, in an effort to meet the demands in an executive order from President Trump.

The Peace Corps Prep certificate program at the University of Wyoming is an undergraduate certificate designed to prepare students for international service and cross-cultural careers. Through a ...