Anyone remembering their American history knows that after a harrowing voyage from England, the Pilgrims arrived in November 1620 on the tip of Cape Cod in what is now Massachusetts. There they established one of the first permanent British settlements
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Faculty-led education abroad programs continue to grow in number and popularity across US institutions. Short-term programs are now 63% of all study abroad, according to the latest IIE Open Doors data. As well, the number and types of organizations offering
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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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For the past 49 years, Seminars International has been committed to working with education abroad, alumni, performing arts groups, and faith-based groups as they teach and learn across borders. We are committed to the idea that interacting with other cultures
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With so much politics in the news this week, you might be interested to read a recent article in Inside Higher Ed that looks at Open Doors and other data to make surprising connections between the political party affiliation of
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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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A task force at Princeton University has put forward an interesting proposal to change its general education requirements: all students would have to take at least one or two semesters of a foreign language, regardless of previous study. No-one could
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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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As a new academic year gets off the ground, it s interesting to read some of the trends and highlights of faculty-led programs in Asia from Asia Institute s Short-Term Programs Report. The Asia Institute is a program provider for faculty-led courses
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