Faculty Training and Preparation
Responsible Study Abroad Seminar This powerpoint slideshow is used to help faculty and other leaders understand risk and their responsiblity associated with leading study abroad programs. It covers how to prepare and respond to a variety of situations, all of which have occured in real life. Case Scenarios To be prepared is half the victory. ~ Miguel De Cervantes. It’s better…
Proven Strategies for Promoting Your Study Abroad Program
When you look at the attributes of successful faculty-led study abroad programs, they are either led by popular professors or heading to popular places. We’ve seen popular professors taking lots of students to unpopular places, unpopular professors taking lots of students to popular places, and popular professors going to popular study abroad destinations (doubly whammy). Survey information gathered from past…
Locating Facilities & Accommodations For Your Faculty-Led Program
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 rent (at lower cost), especially…
Partnerships in Study Abroad: Pros & Cons of Customized Program Providers
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 support. The pros are many….
Faculty-Led Program Development Guide
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 study abroad model exposes students…
Men vs. Women in International Education Leadership, Part II
<<<Go to Part I of International Education Men vs. Women This is Part II of the article and survey results on perceived effectiveness, strengths, and transformational leadership differences between men and women in senior international officer (SIO) or equivalent international education positions. SIO Representation Half of the SIO Men represented by the survey were from doctoral universities, while the majority of SIO Women were from both doctoral universities…
Men vs. Women in International Education Leadership, Part I
A few months ago, I had the opportunity to hear a wonderful plenary speaker at the Forum on Education Abroad conference in Charlotte, North Carolina. Linda Tarr-Whelan is a former Ambassador, Demos Distinguished Senior Fellow, and Director of the Women’s Leadership Initiative. She speaks on a topic near and dear to my heart, the importance of women’s advancement to communities,…
Penn State’s Embedded Education Abroad Faculty Toolkit
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 abroad already understand and embrace a…
EVENT – Risk Management Workshop for Faculty Leaders
Please Note: This event has already taken place Bill Frederick, Director of Risk Management Services, at the School for Field Studies and Natalie Mello, Director of Global Operations, at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, will be conducting a one day risk management training for faculty who will be leading short-term study abroad programs. Bill has been the Director of Safety at The…
Wofford Faculty Study Abroad
It is not often that we college professors are asked to step into the shoes of students in order to see the world from their point of view, but that is just what the Wofford College Milliken Faculty Seminar Abroad does. Each year one fifth of the faculty is invited to travel abroad to a destination where our students study for…