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Knowledge Community for Education Abroad
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Advising & Recruitment in Education Abroad Network
This network serves professionals - in the United States and abroad - whose interests lie in assisting U.S. students engaging in education abroad. Resources and information address topics including program design, administration, and advising.
Developing and Managing Programs Abroad Network
This network serves professionals - in the United States and abroad - whose interests lie in the development and management of programs abroad. Resources and information address topics including program models, budgets, faculty programs, and standards assessment.
Managing an Education Abroad Office Network
This network serves professionals in the United States whose interests lie in the managing and education abroad office. Resources and information address topics including professional development and HR issues, strategic planning, advocacy, and campus programming and connections.
Special Focus Network: Simon Act Initiatives
As legislation moves through the U.S. Congress, universities and colleges across the United States are reviewing their capacity to send students abroad. This network provides resources for campuses who are establishing or expanding their education abroad initiatives – creating an office, developing new programs, seeking to increase the diversity of the students they are sending, looking for ways to send students to new destinations, and preparing staff and faculty to work with these new students and programs.
Education Abroad Leadership Team
NAFSA members may contact leaders through the online membership directory.
Nonmembers can contact leaders by submitting a request form to a network leader below.
- Stacia Zukroff Biel, Chair
CAPA International Education - James Gehlhar, Past-chair
East Carolina University - Cynthia Banks, Chair-elect
AustraLearn/AsiaLearn/EuroLearn - Sue Atkins, Information Coordinator
- Jon Stauff, Web Information Coordinator
Radford University - Elane Granger Carrasco, Education & Professional Development Coordinator
Syracuse University - Rob Hallworth, Member Services Coordinator
George Washington University - Ann Halpin, Regional Outreach Coordinator
Abroadco - Steve Ferst, 2009 Annual Conference Committee (ACC), Member
The Education Abroad Network - Amy Henry, Network Leader, Managing an EA Office
Georgia Institute of Technology - Amanda Reinig, Network Leader, Advising and Recruitment in EA
Pennsylvania State University-Altoona - Chris Musick, Network Leader, Developing and Managing Programs Abroad
University of Mary Washington - Carl A. Herrin, Network Leader, Simon Act Initiatives
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