The New York Times recently published a great essay on one student s reflection on what it means to have an authentic study abroad experience: Was My Study Abroad Experience Authentic Enough? Searching for authenticity in another country has always struck
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Join us at the NAFSA IV Regional conference today for a session on Working with a Provider for Faculty-led Programs: A SWOT Analysis. We ll be in the Gooseberry Falls Room 3 at 1:30 2:30pm. This session puts a twist
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Welcome back to a new academic year. Here at Seminars we are getting ready for January programs and planning May/June programs as well. Interest in faculty-led programming continues to increase! As a reminder of our mission in education abroad, this
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We are excited to announce that Seminars International is celebrating our 50th anniversary in 2018! A lot has changed in study abroad since 1968, and some things are a constant. We are looking forward to remembering the past and thinking
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The Asia Institute, a provider for education abroad programs in Asia, has published interesting data in its annual report on programs in Asia over the past several years. AI surveys several hundred faculty across US institutions to discover what s new,
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Interest in faculty-led programs is coming from all over the field these days, attesting to the prominence of the faculty-led model in study abroad. Terra Dotta has recently published a nicely written overview of the advantages of faculty-led study abroad
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The first question many faculty and education abroad offices ask when working with a provider is: how much will my program cost? Of course, this is an important question. Yet it s also a question that contains within it other questions and,
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As we here at Seminars International are preparing for dozens of January term programs to depart, I m looking over itineraries and seeing anew all the exciting plans faculty have to bring alive their academic subjects through on-site experiences. And I m
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Best Practices , Faculty , Faculty-led , Myths , short-term , study abroad
Happy Thanksgiving to all. As you look ahead to next year s programs, we hope you will find this issue of the Seminars International newsletter helpful. Our focus on planning for this issue is a look back to how planning for
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I have written several posts over the last year about safety and terrorism both subjects never far from the thoughts of international educators these days. But there are other ways to approach the issue of terrorism, and this recent article from
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