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Following is a list of sessions that will be offered during the Forum on Education Abroad's 2010 annual conference. Please note that the session format is also indicated - round-table dialogue, panel presentation or town-hall meeting. All formats will foster interaction and stimulating discussion among participants.
Challenges with Faculty on Faculty-Led Programs
John Battenburg, Nick Brygelson, Leo Van Cleve
Round-table dialogue
This session will address challenges in the selection, training, and evaluation of faculty leading and teaching in abroad programs. Sending faculty members on study and service learning abroad programs offers home campuses various opportunities. Such experiences can assist in internationalizing the campus by providing faculty development in international teaching, service, and research. Faculty members can promote the program and recruit students by emphasizing that courses and activities are approved by the home university, and resident credit is awarded. Academic and risk management administrators can be assured that real learning in an international context is taking place, and health and safety issues are being considered. But what can be done in planning and administering faculty-led programs to assure that these opportunities are indeed realized? How reliable are statements of purpose, teaching evaluations, letters of recommendation, and interviews during the selection process of faculty? What are the characteristics of effective faculty training programs that focus on academic advising and risk management? And how are faculty to be evaluated in their assigned duties throughout the program?
Crossing Borders, Creating Culture: Digital Storytelling and Study Abroad
Thomas D'Agostino, Doug Reilly, Bryan Alexander
Round-table dialogue
10-13 participants will attend the pre-conference workshop of the same title, which is designed to teach them the basic skills of multimedia narrative, a powerful pedagogy with the potential to transform how we "teach" students on study abroad programs, as well as how we understand how they learn and communicate their knowledge. Each participant will make a 3-minute digital story (film) by combining images (still or sometimes video), narration, music and text. The session will begin with an introduction to digital storytelling and its history in and out of the academy. Participants will introduce and show their films to the wider Forum audience. After the premiere of the digital stories (films), issues related to the implementation of digital storytelling will be discussed in the three phases of study abroad-predeparture, on-site study and reentry-and will set up the small-group discussion parameters. The presenters of this workshop and session are keenly interested in hearing new ideas for how digital storytelling might transform our work as cross-cultural educators.
Embedded Education Abroad Faculty Toolkit: Increasing the Value of International Programs for Course Instructors and Students
R. Neill Johnson, Duarte Morais, Anthony Ogden
Round-table dialogue
This session will discuss how defining global citizenship and academic development competencies, and creating an array of assignments and learning activities for assessing them, can add value to course-embedded international experiences. . Participants will learn how an online toolkit that supports this approach is organized, and they will work in teams to contribute additional tools.
A New Paradigm: Developing Study Abroad Programs with Lexus Quality and Hyundai Cost
Amy Shenberger, Russ Braby, Paul Green, Chris Musick
Round-table dialogue
This session begins with a presentation of low-cost program models that also maintain the best vision and value in education abroad. The presenters share the goal of ensuring that education abroad adapts to the economic reality of our student population. Participants will collaborate on discussing additional innovative program models.
Establishing an Institutional Vision for Education Abroad Programs… and Possible Prescriptions for Maintaining Focus
Michael Ulrich, Chris Alexander, Steven Duke, Heidi White
Round-table dialogue
Experiencing cloudy vision? Track the steps taken to internationalization and where the path leads next. Peer into strategic plans and their impact on curriculum integration. Recall the rationale for owning buildings abroad and implications for the home campus. What challenges arise when institutions with strong international commitments reconsider them?
For Today and Tomorrow: The Value-Added of Study Abroad
Dennis Wiseman, Joan Gillespie, Jennifer Lund, Jason Womick
Panel presentation
Readily available assessment instruments aid international educators to program for specific learning goals, student well-being and greater student engagement before, during, and after study abroad. This session will present data developed from the National Survey of Student Engagement and the Collegiate Learning Assessment as those data apply to a four-college Teagle collaborative comprised of the UNC-Asheville, Converse College, Wofford College, and Agnes Scott College.
Strategies of Institutional Collaboration and Cooperation Through Mobility Programs and Study Abroad Programs
Lucia Conte, Dawn Koban, John Scott Lucas
Round-table dialogue
This panel discussion invites third-party providers, international universities, and US universities to engage in a discussion of truly collaborative intercultural ventures such as jointly taught courses, co-led programs, programs in which each partner has specialized in particular areas of strength or interest, and consortia.
The structure of the session will be twofold. First, session leaders will propose strategies developed by universities and third -party providers to foster institutional collaboration. These proposals will include two case studies of the consortia the University of North Carolina Exchange Program (UNC EP) and the International Network of Universities (INU), some strategically critical partnerships developed by Universitat Pompeu Fabra and some examples of intercultural initiatives and programs leaded by IES Abroad. By presenting these examples, session leaders will set out new lines of reflection to facilitate a discussion and will then form break out groups and lead discussions among participants, in order to detect together new ways for further development of educational exchange.
Turning an International Education into Career Success
W. Scott Cochran, Fran Jansen, Amy Lancaster, Jeff Rollison
Panel presentation
Institutional research suggests that study abroad participants develop impressive and measurable skills suggesting clear ‘value-added’ outcomes that are crucial for richer academic and professional work. This session will address how study abroad, when combined with intentionally-constructed curricular and co-curricular programs, nurtures ways of thinking and personal dispositions that shape the whole person.
“Sprechen Sie Englisch?” Or: A Critical Conversation about Second Language Instruction and Cultural Proficiency in Study Abroad—at the Intersection of the Forum Standards and the Work of the American Council for International Education: ACTR/ACCEL.
William Anthony, Dan Davidson, Jeanette Owen
Round-table dialogue
This session provides a forum for members to engage in an open and critical discussion of second language acquisition in the context of study abroad and, for the first time, with leaders from key national U.S. professional organizations, whose missions are the promotion of effective foreign language instruction and study abroad.
Designing Student Research Abroad to Support Community Partnerships
Joan Gillespie, Sheila Collins, Octavio Di Leo
Panel presentation
Community-based research and learning in a social service agency abroad is a unique opportunity for students to engage with the host society and to contribute to it through their work and research. This interactive session will address the pedagogy of project-based learning, creating and managing community partnerships, examples of student research, and assessment strategies.
Communicating the Vision and Value of Education Abroad: Challenges and Opportunities
Joan Gore, Karin Fischer, Mary Anne Grant
Panel presentation
Communicating the worth of education abroad has been a challenge since its inception when it became defined as a grand tour for wealthy females. Despite efforts to redefine education abroad, international educators are often unable to communicate effectively beyond their own community. How should we publicize program quality to the nation at large?
Musings on A History of U.S. Study Abroad
William Hoffa, Steve DePaul
Town-hall meeting
This is a special session sponsored by Frontiers: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Study Abroad the Forum’s official journal. At the Charlotte conference, the second volume of A History of U.S. Study Abroad: 1965 to the Present will be distributed to all attendees. This session will celebrate the completion of this project, a collaborative effort which has involved as authors some of the most experienced colleagues in the field of education abroad. After a brief introduction by the two guest co-editors of this volume, some attention will be given to a history of this History, as well as some comments on how this volume differs from the first volume in conception and execution. Also present will be as many of the chapter authors of the second volume as possible. Following this introduction, the floor will be opened to questions about the project itself and, more to the occasion, why our field needs to know its past, and what the meaning of this past is in relation to the ever-evolving present. This topic is central to the conference theme, in that writing, understanding, and sharing our collective history is central to “the importance of creating and maintaining a compelling vision for education abroad while communicating its value.”
QUIP and the Non-US Institution: Three Universities Explain
Peter Kerrigan, Liam Ó Dochartaigh, Kristina Rödder, Trish Tindall
Round-table dialogue
This session brings together three non-US universities that have participated in the Forum’s Quality Improvement Program (QUIP). Panelists from the University of Limerick, the University of Wollongong, and the Freie Universitaet Berlin will guide us through the process from their perspective.
Short-term Programming: A Report on the 2009 State of the Field Survey
Kim Kreutzer , Charlotte Blessing, Dennis Gordon
Panel presentation
This session will present highlights from the Forum’s 2009 State of the Field Survey. A key component of the session will be the opportunity to actively discuss the short-term programming findings. Panelists will describe their individual/organizational experience with short-term programs and invite participants to discuss the pros and cons of short-term programming.
Challenging the Lens: Visual and Textual Discourses in Shaping the World of Education Abroad
Bradley Rink, Laurie Black, Martha Johnson
Panel presentation
Education Abroad professionals shape the world discursively in a range of identities through promotional materials and program design. The lenses that help to shape the experience for prospective participants—visual discourses from the camera and narrative discourses from texts—are the source of multiple identities of the world, including the romanticized, the terrorized or the colonized. This session will be an opportunity to debate and question current practice in a theoretical and practical environment by means of numerous and thought-provoking photographic and textual examples. Through analysis of narrative and visual texts, this session challenges such discourses in order to reflect on the state of the field.
The Value of Visualizing: Enhancing Host-Country Knowledge Through GoogleMaps
Carolyn Sorkin, Emmanuel Paris-Bouvret
Panel presentation
An interactive demonstration of GoogleMaps’ application to study abroad programs as a means of teaching students about the relationship between geography and history in their host cities and countries. This technology offers an innovative faculty-directed method of engaging students in their physical study abroad site and in encouraging independent learning.
Valuing Diverse Voices: Using Research Methods to Assess & Enhance Experiences of Non-Traditional Populations
Katherine Yngve, Zachary Mohs, Carmen Eyssautier
Round-table dialogue
The vision and value of education abroad are diminished when we fail fully to include diverse and under-represented populations. In this session, participants will review case studies on gender and STEM students who study abroad, and develop hands-on expertise in using qualitative research methodologies to diversify education abroad participation.
Integrating Education Abroad into the Campus Ethos
Larry Braskamp, Gabriele Weber Bosley,Thomas D'Agostino, Dennis Doyle, Steven Duke, Joan Gillespie
Panel presentation
Leaders at five institutions will present one major initiative that integrates education abroad into the campus mission and culture using a framework that connects student development dimensions – cognitive, intrapersonal, interpersonal—and environmental factors – curriculum, co-curriculum, community—to enhance education abroad effectiveness.
When Visions & Values Collide: Multiple Perspectives on the Impact of Communication & Technology On Site (France)
Monique Fecteau, Scott Blair, Shelley Cavaness, Ray Vernon
Panel presentation
France-based panelists representing different programs and institutions will address the impact and potential uses of communication and other new technologies in on-site management and integration of students from an academic and cultural standpoint. How has technology changed interactions among on-site staff, students, faculty and partner institutions? Can these tools be used to enhance learning and engagement with the host culture? On-site staff, faculty and student perspectives will be presented.
What Would Aristotle Do: Taking a Philosophical Perspective on Education Abroad
Andrew Law, Rob Hallworth, Sue Mennicke, Cliff Tironi
Panel presentation
This session will address how differing philosophical perspectives can inform the educational purpose and student-centered learning goals associated with education abroad. Considering some key philosophical approaches, this session will explore these issues in a critical/reflective context in an effort to enrich the discussion of educational purpose in education abroad.
Study Abroad: Privilege, Right, or Requirement?
Scott Manning, Melissa Hardin, Angela Shaeffer
Round-table dialogue
A discussion of the impact study abroad requirements may have on academic, disciplinary, and financial issues, as well as personal responsibility, health and ability concerns, and the work of the education abroad office. Participants will be asked to contribute their own experiences and observations to this dialogue.
The Forum's Code of Ethics
Michael Morrison, TBA
Round-table dialogue
Effective Assessment: Measuring Value in Short-Term, Faculty-Led Programs
Max Savishinsky, Dana Bumpus, Brit Toven
Round-table dialogue
This session will present the results of the 2008 University of Washington Exploration Seminars program assessment as they relate to current best practices in the field, and will seek to demonstrate how assessment communicates value to various stakeholders involved in education abroad. Participants will discuss the benefits and challenges of program evaluation, assessment design, current research in the field, and how assessment informs and shapes future programming.
Assessing our Resources Related to Mental Health and Disability
Michelle Scheib , Jim Baker, Laurie Duston
Round-table dialogue
As we envision equal and expanding opportunities to study abroad, the diversity of participants will encompass those with disabilities and health-related conditions. This session brings together insurance providers, disability providers, third-party providers and information service providers to discuss the complex issues that challenge us to use our resources effectively to serve our increasingly diverse students who study abroad.
What it's Worth; The Value of International Internships
Kate Moore, Ara Pachmayer, Julie Kelly, beth Rydstrom-Knudson, Laura Sewell, Paige Sindt, Kate Smart
Panel presentation
This session will present how an international internship can provide an avenue for students to develop skills identified as relevant in the entry-level job market while participating in a cultural immersion experience. Focus will be on the details of developing and implementing successful internship experiences abroad from the perspectives of an employer, a third-party provider, and both the sending and receiving institutions. The Forum's Standards of Good Practice and seven critical areas of competency will be used to guide discussion as panelists discuss innovative ways to better prepare students for their internship. The session will culminate with a review and discussion of a case study of internships in London and Sydney, where innovative methods are used to help students gain more than just practical and transferable skills.
Using National and Regional Organizations: How We Can Help You
Megan Brenn-White, Robert Guitierrez, Peter Kerrigan, Mary Catherine Scarborough
Panel presentation
In a time where “value” is critical, it makes more sense than ever before to take advantage of the services, scholarships, and expertise that international education organizations have to offer, not all of which are obvious at a first glance. Well-known regional and national organizations are offering new programs and opportunities.. This session will give participants the opportunity to hear directly from representatives of three leading and well-established organizations in the international educational exchange field about how they can help institutions and administrators achieve their international education goals.
Participants will be encouraged to share their experiences with these or other organizations, and discuss ideas for new initiatives and ways to collaborate.
Current Challenges in Managing an International Education Office
Timothy Lynn Elliot, Adrian Beaulieu, Mary Dando, Monica Pagano
Town-hall meeting
This session will focus on current challenges faced by those who manage international education offices. The challenges discussed will be topical and could include the practical aspects of dealing with pandemics, coping with decreased institutional financial support for education abroad programs, and/or effectively managing an education aboard staff. Participants should come prepared to share and discuss their challenges.
The Ethics of Advising: Advocating for the Student While Promoting the Experience
Michelle Gere, Traci Chupik, Martha Johnson
Panel presentation
The Forum’s Code of Ethics for Education Abroad calls upon international educators to remember their responsibility to students and to advocate for their best academic and personal interests. While we work to articulate and promote the vision and value of the study abroad experience in general, and certain programs specifically, how do we negotiate the fine line between advocating for a student’s best interests and our desire to send them abroad? This session will introduce specific ethical dilemmas, and suggest some solutions from different perspectives in the field, to assist participants to identify how they can enhance advising practices.
Questioning the “Global” in Study Abroad
Richard Mitten, Ross Lewin, Jeffrey Peck, Talya Zemach-Bersin
Panel presentation
Study abroad is no longer merely about creating an elite cadre that can move seamlessly between homogenous cultures. It is about preparing a mass of students that can navigate in a globalized world suffused with cultural diversity, advanced capitalism and transnational problems. This session interrogates the tension between some study abroad practices and the changing mission of study abroad to create global citizens.
Male Students and Study Abroad: Improving participation by Improving the Value of Education Abroad
James Lucas, Sue Mennicke, Inge Steglitz
Round-table dialogue
This session addresses whether our marketing of study abroad and its value appeals to male students, and what we may need to do to revise our messages to increase male participation in study abroad. Discussion will focus on a number of factors related to male students and their potential interest in study abroad, such as: How does your institution articulate the value and purpose of study abroad? How is the value of study abroad linked to students’ academic majors, graduate school, or professional interests? How can our reconsidering the value and purpose of study abroad lead to greater participation by a more diverse student population, including males? How can we increase the academic value of study abroad and effectively communicate this value to students?
Latest Developments from the Forum BEVI Project: From Theory and Data to Real World Application and Research
Craig Shealy, Mell Bolen, Dawn Pysarchik, Lee Sternberger
Round-table dialogue
The Forum BEVI Project (http://www.forumea.org/research-bevi.htm) assesses the processes and outcomes of international learning (e.g., who learns what and why, and under what circumstances). This interactive session presents the initial results and their implications, and focuses on the real world application of the BEVI via its individual, program, and institutional assessment reports, and linkage to other assessment methods.
Study Abroad, Demographic Change, and Inclusion—A Standards Committee Session
Michael Steinberg, Joy Carew, Rosalind Raby
Round-table dialogue
The Standards of Good Practice for Education Abroad and the Code of Ethics both have points about non-discrimination but do not go into great detail. The roundtables will focus on challenges with respect to the implementation of the Standards, with a consideration of whether the Standards need to be augmented with respect to diversity.
A Fair Alternative: On-Campus Conversations
Brad Stepan, Barbara Colyar, Antonia Lortis, Stacey Shimizu
Panel presentation
While study abroad fairs work well on many campuses, different models may work more effectively at other campuses. This session explores alternatives to the traditional fair model and attempts to inspire participants with new ideas in order to maximize effective collaboration between study abroad programs, education abroad offices, faculty, and students.
Internationalize your Institution through Faculty
Wendy Williamson, Elizabeth Brewer, Laura McGee, Cornell H. Menking
Panel presentation
Internationalization is not just an administrative process or task to be completed; it is a cultural framework driven by a variety of people. Having a globally-minded faculty is key to this process and should be a priority for institutions that are serious about international education. Institutional leaders and internationally-minded faculty will lead a discussion about how best to utilize faculty to propel organic internationalization.
Engaging Study-Abroad Alumni: Creating Community and Outreach Opportunities
Jannan Poppen, Jen Nielsen, Joyce Tullbane
Round-table dialogue
This session will explore the question of the value in creating community and outreach opportunities among education abroad alumni. We will also examine the ways in which international educators can encourage study abroad alumni to become engaged upon their return. Groups will work together to examine the value of alumni engagement from the perspectives of both international educators and students within the context of student ambassador and peer advisor programs. How do international educators/students benefit? Is experiencing community an expected outcome of studying abroad? What types of community and outreach opportunities can we create and how do international educators facilitate these opportunities? Is it too late to create communities once students return? The groups will then share highlights from the discussions. All participants will then create action points from the discussion.
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.
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 Brubaker, Mark Gallovic, Brian Hopewell
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.
Where Do Faculty and Assessment Meet?: Exploring the Question
Kelly McLaughlin, Louis Berends, Darla Deardorff, Cristin Seibert, Bernhard Streitweiser
This session will examine the issue of faculty engagement in the education abroad assessment process. Presenters will offern 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 the develpment 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 to involve faculty.
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.
Re-Thinking and Re-Designing the International Experience for Today’s Community College Students, 4-Year College Students AND Including Adult Learners
Bernie Yevin
Panel presentation
Today, having a global orientation and experience is a necessity, but for many community college and 4-year school students, including enrolled adult learners, the traditional “semester” or “year abroad” is not a reality. This session presents a model for successfully designing and implementing a short-term, for-credit, quality international experience adaptable to any curriculum in any educational delivery format at any community college which can be easily replicated and has worked successfully with over 135 students, many of whom were adult learners.
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.
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, TBA
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
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
Deirdre Sato, 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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