Welcome to College. Now Take a Year Off
Colleges are offering financial aid to entice admitted students to stay away for a year. Gap years, long popular in Europe, have gained ground in the U.S. not just for wealthy teens who can afford a lengthy vacation, but also for students of modest means who want to pause before jumping into academic endeavors. Incoming […]
Harvard Business School Alumni Podcast: Bridging the Gap with Abby Falik
Global Citizen Year founder Abby Falik on why kids need to find their purpose before freshman year When Abby Falik was 18 years old and getting ready to graduate from high school, she found herself wanting to stretch. She was hungry for a kind of deep life experience before she headed off to college that would […]
Stanford Radio: Launching Students to Adulthood with guest Abby Falik
Stanford Pathfinders with Howard Wolf: Global Citizen Year founder and CEO Abby Falik discusses the importance of taking a year off between college and high school to work on projects in a non-classroom environment. Many call it taking a gap year, but she explains why it should be called a launch year.
Colorado College Launches Gap Year Research Consortium
Colorado College has been instrumental in the launching of the new Gap Year Research Consortium, a first-of-its-kind consortium bringing together admissions deans and researchers from top colleges and universities to study the outcomes of taking an intentional gap year before college. “As long-time supporters of the gap year movement, we believe that creating a clearinghouse […]
Outside Magazine Names Global Citizen Year Top 10 Best Places to Work
Global Citizen Year – a global gap year Fellowship launching a new generation of leaders with the skills, insight and perspective to move the world ahead – has been selected as one of OUTSIDE’s Best Places to Work 2018. Winning companies provide great workplaces for employees and encourage a balance between work and enjoying life […]
Abby Falik Among 100 Most Intriguing Entrepreneurs at 2018 Builders + Innovators Summit
Goldman Sachs (NYSE:GS) is recognizing Global Citizen Year Founder & CEO Abby Falik as one of the 100 Most Intriguing Entrepreneurs of 2018 at its Builders + Innovators Summit in Santa Barbara, California. Goldman Sachs selected Abby Falik as one of 100 entrepreneurs from multiple industries to be honored at the three-day […]
I Want Her Job Podcast: Finding Your ‘Why’ with Abby Falik, Founder of Global Citizen Year
How often have you wondered: Why am I doing this? Why do I want this? Why am I experiencing this? What if you had the chance to discover your “why” during a yearlong opportunity — before you kicked off your career? That’s exactly what Abby Falik has created for individuals during a gap year between […]
Abby Falik’s Books of Her Life with Goodreads
Elizabeth Khuri Chandler, Goodreads Cofounder & Editor-in-Chief, interviews Abby Falik for the launch of their new podcast: Books of Your Life with Elizabeth. Hear Abby and Elizabeth talk about their mutual friend, the author and brilliant neurosurgeon Paul Kalanithi, who wrote When Breath Becomes Air when he was diagnosed with terminal cancer. Abby discusses how the book completely changed her […]
Global Citizen Year’s Brief But Spectacular Feature on PBS NewsHour
Brief But Spectacular: Abby Falik of Global Citizen Year In today’s high schools, “perfect records are valued more than authentic exploration, risk-taking, failure, reflection,” Global Citizen Year Founder and CEO Abby Falik tells PBS NewsHour. Taking a young person “out of their comfort zone” and “away from the people who have defined who they […]
The Business of Giving Visits the Offices of Global Citizen Year
Listen to Denver Frederick, host of The Business of Giving interview Global Citizen Year Founder & CEO Abby Falik and others on the culture of Global Citizen Year. The interview is part of Better Than Most, a regular feature of The Business of Giving, examining the best places to work among social good businesses and nonprofit […]
