In the Journal of International Students, https://jistudents.files.wordpress.com/2016/10/2016-vol-6-no-4.pdf , five co-authors try to assess why international students graduate without ever visiting their career service offices, and why they
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Author, thought leader and accomplished campus speaker on the impact of education abroad on student career development and employability. Former Associate Director, Career Services at The Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) in Washington, D.C.
Consultant to the U.S. State Department Bureau of International Information Programs, EducationUSA, World Bank, higher education organizations, education abroad programs and international nonprofit associations. Prior professional work and consulting in India, Japan, Republic of Georgia, Russia and Central Asia.
The International Partnership for Service-Learning and Leadership named me a Distinguished Fellow. I'm cited as a pedagogical pioneer in the fields of cross-cultural education and service-learning in Service-Learning: A Movement’s Pioneers Reflect on Its Origins, Practice, and Future, Jossey-Bass. Recipient of a Fulbright International Education Administrator award to Japan.
I have a B.A. degree from the State University of New York at Stony Brook and M.A. degrees from Colgate University and World Learning’s SIT Graduate Institute.
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New Research: Study Abroad Fosters “Clearer Sense of Self”
Two points to make: First, this study, https://hbr.org/2018/05/how-living-abroad-helps-you-develop-a-clearer-sense-of-self, appears in the Harvard Business Review which is not where I’d expect to find research on this
Research Finds Campus Career Services Valued Mostly by Minority/First Gen/Nontraditional Students
Findings from a 2017 Strada-Gallup student survey provide a perspective on which students appear to derive the most benefit from their campus career service offices: http://stradaeducation.gallup.com/reports/225161/2017-strada-gallup-college-student-survey.aspx The
“Top Concerns” of Institutional Members of Forum on Education Abroad in 2017 “Survey of the Field” (…and mine)
Here is the survey: https://forumea.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/ForumEA-State-of-the-Field-18-web-version.pdf What I found of interest – and much concern- was the finding that only 17% of respondents are “very concerned” about
Resources Supporting Student Integration of Education Abroad Experience With Career Planning
Since I began writing and speaking on this topic about thirteen years ago, there has been an uptick in research – both academic and by
A brief, but spectacular, clip on closing the employability gap for students studying abroad – at 2016 IIE Generation Abroad Summit
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I do love the brief but spectacular segments on the PBS News Hour! https://twitter.com/InStudyAbroad/status/790588430770139136
