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7am - 12pm Registration & Information
8 - 9:45 am Breakfast Plenary featuring
The Honorable Linda Tarr-Whelan
Women Leaders and the Future: An Expanded Vision for Education Abroad
Education abroad is an essential component for leaders of today and tomorrow. That is especially true for women here and across the globe who are poised to be the agents of change for a more globalized world. Since the UN Fourth World Conference in Beijing in 1995, especially in countries other than the United States, bringing more women into leadership has been a major goal. These trends and the factors that make it a global imperative offer opportunities to the education abroad community to be ahead of the curve on preparing leaders for the future.
10 - 10:45am Coffee Break
10:45-am-12pm Roundtable Sessions
Ethics and Meaning in the Conscientious Process of Visioning
Rosalyn Berne
Panel presentation
This session explores how we can guide visioning for education abroad based on a foundation of ethical purpose. Participants will discuss how to make explicit that which they value and believe, towards the achievement of ethically-grounded programs of education abroad.
Collaborating on Assessment with Third-Party Providers
Mell Bolen, Joan Gillespie, Mick Vande Berg, Adam Weinberg
Town-hall meeting
This session addresses specific topics related to university- third party provider partnerships in collecting and using outcomes assessment data on education abroad. Session leaders will speak briefly on topics that will include sharing resources to avoid duplication and the over-surveying of students; aligning learning objectives; creating comparative and longitudinal data; designing processes in cooperatively;; and what providers hope to receive from university partners. Participants will then discuss with the session leaders what university partners would like from providers, how we can productively produce high quality assessment efforts together, and how these might be shaped to meet specific needs of universities such as accreditation requirements.
Transforming Immigration Challenges to Positive Learning Experiences: The New UK Tier 4 Rules
Anne-Marie Bruner Tracey, Rose Matthews
Panel presentation
This session will examine the new UK student immigration rules and how these compare to other countries, including the U.S. In the current economic crisis, education abroad may be negatively affected by the smallest changes to norms, but there are ways in which potential hindrances can be converted into positive intercultural learning experiences. Participants in this session will discuss opportunities to maximize student learning in the face of these changes.
Peer to Peer: Reaching Students on Their Level
Jessica Czarnowski, Jeremy Billetdeaux, Erin Ray, Leigh Stanfield
Panel presentation
This session will cover the benefits of creating a Peer Advising program and give specific examples of best practices in organizing peer advisor events that can be duplicated across campuses. Both paid and unpaid models of peer advising programs will be explored as well as the student benefits from participating as a peer advisor.
WhereDo Faculty and Assessment Meet?" Exploring the Question
Kelly McLaughlin, Louis Berends,, Darla Deardorff, Cristin Siebert, Bernhard Streitwieser
Round-table dialogue
This session will examine the issue of faculty engagement in the education abroad assessment process. Presenters will offer an overview of the issue based on a review of the existing literature. Participants will be divided into groups to discuss questions the panel has prepared and a draft survey under development to measure faculty views on this topic. Session participants will also summarize the common challenges at their organizations in defining the faculty’s role in education abroad assessment and what efforts, if any, they have made to involve faculty.
Applications, Who Needs Them?
John Wells, Sarah Groskreutz, Andrew Law, Joe Sevigny
Panel presentation
This session will ask participants to reflect on the value and role of applications for education abroad programs. Although programs continue to require applications, there has been little discussion nationally on what role applications should play, what information should be collected, and whether we are asking students and faculty to dedicate their time on materials that are not necessary or not reviewed in any detail. Is it possible to design an advising and application process that engages students with the intellectual, educational, and personal challenges associated with education abroad as soon as they enter the process? Can an advising/application process serve both educational and administrative goals? Panelists will present different perspectives on this topic and will engage participants in the discussion and explore recommendations for the field.
Value in Study Abroad: Effectively Evaluating Students’ Feedback
Brian Hopewell, Brian Brubaker, Mark Gallovic
Round-table dialogue
This session aims to foster an exchange of ideas about what constitutes an effective evaluation of a study abroad program using student evaluations. The presenters will discuss their analysis of student evaluations and reflections from feedback collected at the beginning and the end of both long- and short-term study abroad programs as well as responses collected several months after the students’ return. Discussion will center on a program offered by a small, private, liberal arts institution as well as faculty-led programs run at a large, public university. Various types of evaluations, surveys and modes of reflection will be discussed. Session participants will be encouraged to bring their own program evaluations so that participants can share best practices.
New Value-Added Program Features in Study Abroad
Anders Uhrskov, Barbara Harrison, Carl Zeithaml
Rounda-table dialogue
This session examines new ways to add more value to the study abroad experience through the design and implementation of “high impact learning experiences.” An overseas provider will describe this approach while two sending institutions will present trends in the use of study abroad in the curriculum, including two examples of value-added program features: hands-on experiential learning and student research opportunities.
The Diversity Factor - Essential to Expanding Study Abroad
Monty McGee, Margaret Heisel, Peter Kerrigan
Round-table dialogue
Diversifying study abroad is an integral aspect of significantly increasing participation in study abroad among American students. The session will focus on best practices on how advisors from university and community college campuses can dispel misinformation and misperceptions that underrepresented students often have about study abroad.
12 - 1:30pm Lunch Plenary:
Forum Undergraduate Research Awards
1:45 - 3pm Roundtable Sessions
The Global Classroom: Reaching Disparate Audiences for Better Integration of Study Abroad
Jessica DuPlaga, Jeffrey Lantis, Eric Singer, Ginger Wickline
Round-table dialogue
This session addresses the challenge of how to orient different groups to the value of study abroad by viewing education abroad: 1) as a learning cycle that focuses on the education abroad process as a journey in which students, faculty, and staff all play a part—from the decision to go abroad, to choosing a program, preparing for departure, being abroad, and carrying the experience further into the students’ professional and personal life; and 2) as a framework including four “dimensions of the global classroom”: personal identity, cultural identity, global citizenship and vocational development. Participants will take part in a simulation designed to explore how curriculum integration and valuable education abroad can be achieved through purposeful and guided preparation and reflection.
Faculty and/vs Staff in Study Abroad: What and How Much Can You Expect
Uliana Gabara
Round-table dialogue
This session addresses the question of whether and how the faculty, as a collective body, should be involved in creating and implementing the vision of education abroad. What principles of academic ethos are at play? What forces governing academic behavior support faculty participation and which do not? Can the vision be created and implemented by education abroad professional staff alone or with the support of some individual faculty members? Is it essential that faculty governance be defined in a way that accepts its role in education abroad beyond leading some programs, approving some courses, and/or recommending study abroad to their advisees?
Financing Expansion of Study Abroad in a Climate of Fiscal Constraint
Margaret Heisel, Pedro Bidegaray, Mark Reiger
Panel presentation
Study abroad is growing rapidly, but it faces numerous challenges in the coming decade. Among these are the constraints of a financial downturn, which has affected countries worldwide, but especially U.S. higher education. This session reports on the findings and outcomes of a recent symposium that explored cost efficient and effective models for study abroad. Focus will also be on a case study of a consortium aimed at implementing these principles while accommodating the diverse administrative and instructional procedures and practices of multiple partners.
Assuring Academic Value through Multiple Perspectives: The Creative Tensions among Home Office, Onsite Dean, and University of Record
John Heyl, Scott G. Blair, David P. Dauwalder, Monique Fecteau
Panel presentation
This session explores the necessary tensions among key partners in delivering and assessing academic quality abroad: the provider (CEA); the onsite Dean (Paris); the University of Record (University of New Haven); and the regional accrediting body (NEASC). How do these players navigate the waters of student demand, academic integrity, faculty oversight, and standards of good practice and accreditation between the U.S. and overseas programs?
Bringing Study Abroad Home: Creative Approaches to Integrating the Study Abroad Experience back into the Campus Community
Sarah Milani, Heidi White, Returned Students
Panel presentation
Encouraging students to participate in focused, post-return reflection and to integrate their experiences abroad back into the campus community is a challenge on many campuses. This session discussess imaginative ways in which study abroad offices have engaged returnees in the reflection process through creative competitions, courses, conferences, and programs on campus.
The Relevance of GPA: What Does It Really Tell Us?
David Rudd, Kendall Brostuen, Paul H. Watson
Panel presentation
It is commonplace in education abroad to consider a student’s GPA when evaluating their academic potential and appropriateness for an overseas program. This session will assess the potential relationship between pre-program grade point average and academic and behavioral success on an education abroad program.
Facilitating Global Citizenship through a Values-Based Consortium Model: Studies Abroad in the South Pacific
Michael Tarrant, Bill Borrie, Uttiyo Raychaudhuri, Lee Stone
Round-table dialogue
The session describes a values-based (Value-Belief-Norm) framework for facilitating global citizenship through short-term, faculty-led, educational travel programs to the South Pacific (Antarctica, Australia, Fiji, and New Zealand). Programs are delivered via consortia of approximately15 institutions and attract about800 students a year. Academic and logistical aspects are integrated using a series of discursive modules addressing the theme of sustainable development.
Community Engagement and Student Learning while Studying Abroad
Carol Clark, Jennifer Dickey, Marie Bongiovanni, Francesco Burzacca, Angela Tumini, David Younger
Round-table dialogue
This session examines various forms of global community engagement with an eye to understanding the -possible consequences (both intended and unintended) for both student learning and the host communities themselves. Examples of different program models will be presented to provoke discussion on best practices to ensure quality, sustainable global community engagement as defined by positive outcomes for the host community partners, and enhanced learning and personal growth on the part of students.
First Contact: The Importance of Considering Student Motives and Values
Brook Blahnik, Deirdre Sato, Shyanmei Wang, Patricia Chow, Ryan Gonzalez, Antonia Lortis, Bernhard Streitwieser
Panel presentation
This research panel shares findings from three recent studies that examine ways that students approach and are motivated to study abroad, as well as the impact of short-term study abroad. The discussion will focus on current assessment methods and questions about the impact of study abroad.
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