The Forum 20th Annual Conference

Mark your calendar for our
20th Annual Conference!

Sheraton Boston I Boston, Massachusetts
Virtual: March 6 - 7, 2024
In-Person: March 20 - 22, 2024

Statement of Conference Goals and Objectives

The Forum on Education Abroad seeks to offer an Annual Conference that supports its mission to “cultivate educators* who champion high-quality education abroad experiences that ignite curiosity, impact lives, and contribute to a better world.”

*By educators, we mean people that facilitate, sponsor, and/or research global learning experiences and education abroad. We understand the term educator to include members of educational institutions, organizations, and those such as host families and community members.

Through the Annual Conference, we hope to:

engage globally minded educators as lifelong learners and thoughtful practitioners,
facilitate integrative learning that improves practice and contributes to capacity building,
convene institutions, organizations, educators, and thought leaders to identify and address critical issues impacting the field,
advocate for continued investment in education abroad,
leverage our collective expertise to advance full participation in educationally meaningful education abroad.

Objectives for the 20th Annual Conference:

1. Expand participation, engagement, and dialogue among the full range of stakeholders in education abroad (EA) to enhance learning, improve practice, and contribute to the knowledge base. This includes:

Soliciting proposals relevant to a range of institution and organization types, particularly those who have been historically underrepresented in the field, including:
- Community Colleges, technical and vocational education and training (TVET)
- HBCUs
- TCUs
- MSIs
- International host institutions
- Graduate and professional schools
Soliciting proposals relevant to colleagues whose experiences, perspectives, professional goals, interests and assets have been historically underrepresented at the conference, including:
- Faculty [U.S. and Internationally Based]
- Researchers/scholars both inside the field of EA and beyond [those with interest in EA but whose dissemination tends to focus on their professional/disciplinary communities]
- Graduate students
- On-site staff
Supporting and encouraging individuals regardless of role/position/title to develop support networks and skills that enable them to move from practice to scholarship and vice/versa.
Ensuring that the balance of conference sessions builds on The Forum’s interest to create a welcoming and responsive climate for all.

2. Provide learning and development opportunities that contribute to career and leadership development for international educators at all career stages.

3. Showcase and catalyze opportunities that advance integration of EA across curricular, career, and lifelong learning pathways.

4. Demonstrate Examples of Aligned Curriculum & Systems of Support-- encourage proposals that illustrate efforts at the course/program, office, organizational levels to 1) expand equitable access to academically-sound and culturally-relevant EA experiences that advance global learning outcomes at the course, departmental or institutional level, and 2) address student well-being and success and/or are otherwise effective in advocating for sustained/increased investment in EA.

Conference registration fees


Registration Type	Early-Bird Registration	Regular Registration	Late Registration	On Site Registration
Full Conference (Member) - On-Site & Virtual	$699	$749	$799	$849
Full Conference (Non-Member) - On-Site & Virtual	$949	$999	$1,049	$1,099
1 Day Conference (Member) - On-Site & Virtual	$499	$549	$599	$649
1 Day Conference (Non-Member) - On-Site & Virtual	$649	$699	$749	$799
Virtual Conference Only (Member)	$99	$149	$199	$249
Virtual Conference Only (Non-Member)	$249	$299	$349	$399
Full-Time Graduate Student*	$349	$399	$449	$499

LMIC registrations
If you are affiliated with an institution in an LMIC and require dicounted rates, please contact The Forum to inquire.

*Graduate Students
The Graduate Student fee has been established as a means to provide full-time graduate students, who are not gainfully employed full-time, access to The Forum’s Annual Conference. The Forum kindly requests that only full-time graduate students who are not employed utilize this registration. Please contact The Forum conference@forumea.org to inquire about this option.

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