Project Stages
Progression of activities
Partners & Contacts
Primary project personnel
Grant Report
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Brief Abstract
This project seeks to increase access to study abroad programs for undergraduates enrolled in professional and technical degree programs. Project staff will identify major course work and liberal education opportunities in existing sponsored and cosponsored study abroad programs and develop advising materials and processes to support student participation. Project participants will consider new study abroad program development in the context of existing resources with an eye toward program diversity (type, length, destination). Doing so will allow students in the targeted fields to more fully integrate study abroad into their minor and major programs.

Summary of Activities
Each University of Minnesota (U of M) college involved in this project will participate in a series of activities, roughly labeled Stages I, II and III. Click here for a definition of the stages.

 
2000-01
2001-02
2002-03
Carlson School of Management
Partnering with University of WI-Madison
Stage I
Stage II
Stage III
College of Human Ecology
Partnering with Purdue University
Stage II
Stage III
Institute of Technology
Partnering with Northwestern University
Stage II
Stage III
School of Nursing
Partnering with University of WI-Madison
Stage I
Stage II
Stage III

Activities include:

  • meetings with faculty and students to determine barriers and attitudes (I)
  • identification and approval of study abroad programs that fit into specific degree programs (I-II)
  • faculty travel abroad to evaluate programs (III)
  • development of advising materials and a corresponding web site (III)
  • increased promotional activities (I-II-III)
  • evaluation of selected programs and fine-tuning of advising materials and web site (III)
  • consideration and plan for new program development where needed (III)
  • development of on-going training for Global Campus staff and collegiate faculty and staff advisers (III)
  • dissemination of project results through professional journals and at national conferences (III)

Each summer, U of M collegiate and Committee on Institutional Cooperation (CIC) partners meet to discuss and share progress, program information, and strategies in use on their campuses. U of M colleges and the Learning Abroad Center serve as mentors to CIC partners who undertake the above process, approximately one year behind the U of M activities. CIC partners also share their current successes in study abroad articulation, and U of M partners determine how to incorporate suggestions.

Thanks to US Department of Education, Office for Postsecondary Education, FIPSE

 
Last modified on November 21, 2008