About the Series

In the current environment, education abroad staff and administrators often find themselves struggling to capture resources in institutional environments that too often appear to pit student success. equity and engagement offices against each other. This is despite the fact that these offices often have shared interests. This series invites participants to look for opportunities for coalition building across offices and use shared evidence to make the local case for education abroad as part of larger institutional narratives & priorities (e.g., student engagement & success, quality of instruction, inclusive climate & belonging, sustainability, work readiness, etc.). 

In this series, presenters introduce platforms and datasets that integrate education abroad and global learning, but which are organized around broader constructs like student engagement, high impact practices (HIPs) and community engagement. Some of these tools may already be in use at your institution; however, they may be underutilized in the service of education abroad and global learning. Connecting with campus networks or joining forces with other student success and engagement colleagues at your institution can be a fruitful, cost-effective strategy for EA offices of varying sizes to:  

• demonstrate the relevance and value of EA programs to institutional outcomes and  
• provide evidence to argue for sustained investment in education abroad and related global learning efforts to senior administrators and external stakeholders.   

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Presenters will highlight a dataset, instrument and/or entity that institutions and EA offices may be able to use to advance holistic, evidence-based story telling. Each session will include illustrations and/or case examples as well as time for Q&A. 

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Modality:  Synchronous webinar (Zoom meeting format)  
Areas of Practice: Assessment & Evaluation | Teaching & Learning, Advocacy 
Cost:  Free for individuals from Member Institutions and $29 for Non-Members ​

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Upcoming Offerings

Expanding Student Access and Success: Making the Case for Education Abroad Using the National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE)
OCT 3, 2024 

Date: Tuesday, October 3rd, 2023 
Title:  Expanding Student Access and Success: Making the Case for Education Abroad Using the National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE) 
Time: Noon – 1:00 p.m. Eastern Time 
Presenter: Dr. Jillian Kinzie, Associate Director of the Indiana University Center for Postsecondary Research and the National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE) Institute, Indiana University ​

As EA offices look to demonstrate the value of education abroad to a range of stakeholders, the quest to find affordable, relevant and scalable data sources abounds. One source that may be in use at your institution already, but which you may never have heard of is the National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE). In 2023, nearly 1,700 bachelor’s-granting colleges and universities in the United States and Canada have participated in NSSE to measure the extent to which students engage in effective educational practices that are empirically linked with learning, personal development, and other desired outcomes such as persistence, satisfaction, and graduation. NSSE data are for institutional improvement and research. Questions relevant to education abroad and global learning are part of NSSE. In this session, join Dr. Jillian Kinzie for an introduction to NSSE and how education abroad staff and administrators can: a) leverage NSSE to cultivate buy-in for education abroad and b) work collaboratively with other campus stakeholders to address shared questions facing campuses related to student success and well-being. 

​Audiences: Education abroad administrators, faculty, staff, advocates and researchers 

Presenter

Jillian Kinzie, Ph.D. is Associate Director of the National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE) at the Center for Postsecondary Research, Indiana University. She conducts research and leads project activities on the use of student engagement data to improve educational quality and issues of teaching and learning and serves as senior scholar with the National Institute for Learning Outcomes Assessment (NILOA). She currently leads a Strada Foundation funded assessment of college students’ career and workforce preparation. She is co-author of Radical Reimagining for Student Success in Higher Education (2023), Delivering on the Promise of High-Impact Practices: Research and Models for Achieving Equity, Fidelity, Impact, and Scale (2022), Assessment in Student Affairs (2016), Using Evidence of Student Learning to Improve Higher Education (2015) and Student Success in College (2010), and is a peer reviewer for accreditors and consults with colleges and universities about assessment, effective educational practice, inclusive excellence, high-impact practices, and support for student success.

TENTATIVE TITLE: USING THE Carnegie ELECTIVE CLASSIFICATION(S) TO DEVELOP INSTITUTIONAL COALITIONS
FEB. 2024

Date: Feb. 2024 – More details coming soon!  
Topic: Carnegie Elective Classification for Community Engagement 
Time: More details coming soon!
Presenter: Cammie Jones, Director, Carnegie Elective Classification for Community Engagement, American Council on Education & Campus Partners ​
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Strategies for Tracking, Integrating, and Catalyzing Local and Global Community Engagement
MARCH 5, 2024

Date: March 5th, 2024 

Topic: Carnegie Elective Classification for Community Engagement 
Time: 11:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. Eastern
Presenters: Kristin Medlin, Director of Research and Development, Lauren Wendling, Director of Institutional Success, Collaboratory & Campus Partners 

Description: Community engagement is foundational to both domestic and international expressions of global engagement.  However, in many campuses the pedagogies and activities that constitute global engagement may be disconnected.  As EA offices look to make the case for their impacts on students and communities, being able to track and report on community engagement holistically opens up new avenues to address cross-cutting issues like equity, belonging, workforce development and sustainability. The Forum on Education Abroad and Collaboratory have partnered to explore how campuses can better understand, track, and align institutional global engagement efforts with community engagement. This presentation provides a high-level overview of data and cultural trends across Collaboratory’s network of 40+ colleges and universities.