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Best Practices for Enhancing Education Abroad

         Thank you to Danuta Majchrowicz, former Abroad View Editorial Board member, for her significant contributions to this section.


BELOIT COLLEGE:

       Beloit College's annual International Symposium day is a campus-wide event, when students who have studied in another country (whether by coming to the U.S. or going to a country outside the U.S.) make presentations about what they have learned. While some students focus on the intercultural aspects of their learning, others present research conducted abroad or participate in panel discussions focusing on current international events
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CORNELL ABROAD
 
        Corinna Lewis, the Information Services Coordinator at Cornell Abroad, discusses her interest in cross-cultural learning, Cornell’s blog journalism program, and using new social networking tools for more effective outreach among study abroad students.
 
HOBART AND WILLIAM SMITH COLLEGES AND PARTNERSHIP FOR GLOBAL EDUCATION

                     HWS and PGE developed an approach to study abroad programming called "Integrated Program Design"  This approach frames students' time abroad with rigorous pre-departure and re-entry work, providing a more continuous and intentional international experience. Among its initiatives include Assistant Director Doug Reilly’s Photographing to Explore: a workshop and handbook that explore critical reflection through photography. Doug and anthropology professor Stefan Senders also collaborated to create the International Writers’ Workshop for returned study abroad students.


INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATION INSTITUTE
 
         Milton Bennett, an intercultural education expert, talks with study abroad professionals about how they can help students maximize their experiences abroad.
 
JAMES MADISON UNIVERSITY

   The Office of International Programs (oIP) at JMU serves as the central University office regarding international education, with an organizing and integrative function in addition to leadership responsibilities in identifying and facilitating global education initiatives. The oIP has been committed to many scholarly and programmatic initiatives that enhance international experiences for its students at home and abroad. The presentation Assessment Basics: Getting Started on an Assessment Protocol has a companion piece—a downloadable PDF Assessment Tools of Intercultural Communicative Competence, contributed by Dr. Lee Sternberger, Associate Provost and Executive Director of the oIP at James Madison University. Permission to use this document came from the author, Alvino E. Fantini, Brattleboro, VT, 2006. 

LIVING ROUTES

          Living Routes, an educational non-profit organization that partners with the University of Massachusetts at Amherst to run semester, summer, and January programs based in “ecovillages” around the world, was the first study abroad program to institute a comprehensive carbon offsetting strategy. Living Routes Executive Director Daniel Greenberg contributed many recommended resources to Abroad View's Go Green section, and its website has resource listings too. Greenberg created a Carbon Commitment Calculator worksheet , which he uses when working with students and study abroad offices to explore ways they can measure, reduce, and offset greenhouse gas emissions in their own offices, programs, and travels. 

MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE:

          Barbara Ganley, Middlebury College lecturer in the Writing Department, talks about the creation of "Blogging the World," a collaborative program involving Middlebury College, Haverford College, and Dickinson College students who blog individually and collaboratively while studying abroad. Ganley asks what impact might social software have on the study abroad experience? Does collaborative blogging between students scattered about the world enhance the educational value of travel? Might blogging for a global audience create opportunities for effective reflection and for contextualizing the immersive experience of living and studying away from the home institution? 

           Bill McKibben, America's leading environmentalist and a Scholar-in-Residence in Environmental Studies at Middlebury College, shares his perspective on the role study abroad professionals can play in preparing students to travel and live abroad more sustainably.\

         Catharine Wright, a Lecturer and Acting Director of Technology for Middlebury College’s Center for Teaching, Learning, and Research, teaches courses that explore diverse ways of thinking and writing about self and other; a range of genres and the process of writing; and the various roles of a writer. Two of her courses, Writing for Social Change, and Story and Ritual, feature online student discourse about social issues and multi-media service-learning projects.


NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY:

                      Bernhard T. Streitwieser, the Associate Director of Northwestern University's Study Abroad Office and a part-time Lecturer in the German Department and the School of Education and Social policy, created a Global Issues Debate in which students can discuss with their peers in a deep and critical way what the abroad learning experience meant for themselves and for their host and home countries.

Jennifer Hirsch, a Lecturer for Northwestern University’s Department of Anthropology and Director of the Chicago Field Studies Program, designed a course called “Reading and Writing Culture” for students who have studied abroad during college and wish to continue learning about their host country and reflecting on their experience. A course description, readings, and assignments