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Kelly Holland

Kelly Holland Interim Director

“I do not bring back from the journey quite the same self that I took.” W. Maugham

Kelly Holland is the Interim Director of Study Abroad at Eastern Illinois University. She first left the U.S. at age 20, and spent a semester in Granada, Spain with the American Institute of Foreign Study (AIFS). She returned several years later to teach English for the Spanish Ministry of Education in Andalucia. Kelly holds a M.Ed. in Comparative and International Education from Lehigh University, and a B.A. in International Business and Spanish from Moravian College.

Author Articles

A Semester in the Sun: Studying Abroad in Spain created on 2013-09-26

The first thing you notice is the sunlight. It shines on every corner, every cobblestone, peeks into every patio. It calls to everyone differently: some hear the staccato beat of a flamenco heel, others hear cathedral bells, still others the quiet strum of a guitar. The second thing you notice is the colors. The deepest black of a lace mantilla during a holy week procession, the stark blue of a...