First Generation college students face many obstacles when it comes to success in higher education. Many of those obstacles come well before study abroad, and actively influence a student’s ability or decision to study abroad.

While open to students from all backgrounds, MSI’s occupy an important space within higher education. This blog post intends to highlight some of the trends, research, and debate specific to MSI’s in the context of internationalism.

At the latest CIEE conference, Diversity Abroad staff teamed up with local universities to host a workshop titled “Breaking Our Own Barriers: Becoming An Accessible Study Abroad Office.”

This year’s Open Door Report has many of us in the field wondering where the momentum in the growth of diverse students has gone. Last year gave us hope that the efforts to increase access to education abroad programming may have been paying off.

The Diversity Abroad Conference clarified and reinforced many of Darielle Horsey’s ideas about how to incorporate social justice into study abroad.

Community colleges have been involved in the field of Education Abroad since the early 1970s. They have been challenged with issues related to faculty, and administrative support, health and safety management issues, lack of full-time personnel.

International education offices at colleges and universities are instrumental in recruiting students for study abroad; however, many students who participate in education-abroad programs first hear about the opportunity from a faculty member.

In education abroad questions of diversity and under-representation are nearly always properly co-related. A consequence of the exclusion of certain regions, groups and disciplines leads to a relative lack of diversity on education abroad programmes.

Study abroad organizations (often referred to as “providers”) can play an important role in the challenge of diversifying study abroad.

Posted: Monday, July 18, 2013By: John Christian CAPA International Education‘s President/CEO John Christian spoke at the inaugural Diversity Abroad Conference in Chicago earlier this month. The conference, with the tag line “Changing Landscapes: Strategies...