The 2016 IIE Summit on Generation Study Abroad will take place on October 23-25, 2016 at the Omni Shoreham Hotel in Washington, DC  to bring education, government and business leaders and journalists together for action-oriented discussion on how to ensure international experience is a key part of a 21st century education and make study abroad opportunities available to all. It is more important than ever that U.S. students graduate with the international, intercultural, and language skills that they will need to help solve today’s global challenges. The 2016 IIE Summit is part of IIE’s Generation Study Abroad®, a five year initiative to double the number of U.S. students studying abroad by the end of the decade. Generation Study Abroad seeks to significantly increase and diversify participation by bringing higher education institutions, employers, governments, K-12 teachers, associations, and others together to build on current best practices and find new ways to extend study abroad opportunities and resources to tens of thousands of college students whose needs are not currently served by existing study abroad programs. The Summit will continue to push the envelope to change how we think and "do" study abroad as we work together to achieve our ambitious goal of doubling by the end of the decade.

Ola Mahmoud, research officer at IIE’s Center for Academic Mobility Research, reflects on the increasing amount of students actively pursuing international experiential learning through a variety of non-credit education abroad (NCEA) activities. "Despite NCEA becoming a mainstream option for students to incorporate both an immersive international and practical educational experience into their formal studies, and the importance that accurate and comprehensive NCEA data have in informing higher education institutions’ internationalization missions; NCEA has so far been vastly underreported and not fully understood." 

 

 

The Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs and IIE are pleased to announce the EducationUSA Training Institute: Enhancing Advising Expertise will take place in the summer of 2016. The EducationUSA Training Institute is an intensive training and professional development program designed to provide EducationUSA Advisers with the knowledge and skills needed to enhance their effectiveness and build professional competency. Each two-week EducationUSA Training Institute is comprised of a Washington, DC-based workshop and an on-campus training element. Accredited U.S. higher education institutions are invited to submit proposals to host the on-campus portion of the Training Institute, June 26 – July 2, 2016. This program will build upon advisers’ previous training, as well as their professional experience, to increase their depth of knowledge on key topics related to advising students, supporting U.S. institutions, managing an advising center, promoting U.S. higher education, and representing and advocating for EducationUSA to a variety of audiences.