Study Abroad for Professors & Students
Locating meeting and accommodation facilities for your faculty-led study abroad program can be time-consuming and difficult if you don’t have any personal/professional contacts. If you have a city in mind for your study abroad program, it’s best to start looking through the city’s colleges and universities. Higher education institutions almost always have facilities available for…
Instead of doing everything on your own, you may wish to find a customized program provider to assist you in developing your faculty-led study abroad program. Basically, you tell the provider what you want/need and they do the leg work, give you a price per student, and help with program marketing and other forms of…
What is a Faculty-led Program? A Faculty-led program is type of study abroad experience that consists of one or more credit-bearing, study-travel courses along with a sequence of group activities, organized excursions, and cultural encounters. Faculty-led programs are led by college professors and usually last between one to eight weeks. Benefits of Faculty-led Programs This…
Developing global citizenship through short-term study abroad is little like trying to juice a grape (if you don’t have the right tools). It’s also naive and presumptuous to think we can turn students into global citizens, like Jesus turned water into wine, by merely sending them off to another country. It presumes that all students who study…
As more American students pursue nontraditional avenues of education — online and distance learning and study abroad opportunities — accreditation is a big issue. Students want to make sure they’re not wasting time and money pursuing a degree that will be worthless in the job market or study abroad courses that will not be recognized by their home…
Please Note: This event has already taken place. Leading Abroad: Preparing Faculty in Best Practices in Health, Safety, and International Education Program Development With Keynote Speakers: Dr. Gary Rhodes, Director, Center for Global Education, Loyola Marymount University & Michael O’Neill, Senior Director, Global Safety & Security, Save the Children Details: Friday, April 9, 2010, from…