Leveraging Education Abroad for Student Career Development & Employability
This essay appeared on the site of the new World Council on Intercultural Learning and Global Competence, https://iccglobal.org/ : How Can We Foster a Mobile Mindset While Sheltering in Place? It discusses what happened as a course at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies,… Continue Reading “Case Study: Flattening Learning in a virtual service-learning course”
Consultant in International Higher Education Copyright © Scott G. Blair, 2020 In light of the globalized origins of the COVID-19 pandemic and now the struggle to gain wider awareness, particularly in the United States, of the depth and breadth of systemic racism across society,… Continue Reading “Revisiting Ethical Perspectives on Study Abroad in a COVID-19 World by Scott G. Blair, PhD”
Reported today in the Times Higher Education: US students overwhelmingly backing Biden and determined to vote Source: iStock US college students overwhelming favour Joe Biden in this year’s presidential election and are determined to cast their votes, a nationwide poll has found. The online survey… Continue Reading “Students Have got to vote!!!”
I’d like to call attention to this excellent analysis by Matthew Clausen, Business Development Advisor to the Texas International Education Consortium (TIEC): https://www.tiec.org/news/rethinking-internationalization-metrics-during-covid19 . I’ve re-worked its title, but, the idea he posits is that Covid has clearly altered the way that international educators… Continue Reading “A New Game Requires Moving the Goalposts for International Education”
Originally posted on Global Career Compass:
I hope you enjoy watching these presentations which deliver my point of view – well known if you follow me here or @tillman_marty – on a topic which continues to resonate on campuses and with private organizations in…
My latest blog for @TheEAIE discussing why, “In a post-Covid world, the agenda of higher education systems throughout the world will remain, of necessity, closely aligned with issues of global workforce development.” https://www.eaie.org/blog/education-abroad-student-employability-gap.html There is evidence of a widespread gap in understanding among students… Continue Reading “Education abroad and the student employability gap (looking ahead to the return of student mobility…)”
I am especially pleased to share this guest post by Davina Potts, an Australian colleague whose research -on the impact of education abroad on student employability- I’ve widely cited in my work on this topic. She is currently Associate Director, Careers, Employability & Global… Continue Reading “Employability Amplified: The Power of Global Internships”
Originally posted on Global Career Compass:
In the cycle of life, it’s that time once again. Students are graduating from colleges and universities across the country and for many, the unanswered question is: Now what? Shortly, NAFSA: Association of International Educators will conduct its…
This piece was written by a student at USC, Andrea Klick, an editorial intern at Open Campus. Rather than quoting the many pieces out there now by career professionals (and I was one for 11 years at Johns Hopkins-SAIS), I thought it would be… Continue Reading “Career Advising in a Paused Economy”
Originally posted on Global Career Compass:
Coming out in July!! https://lnkd.in/dDuR2eN. My chapter in Education Abroad: Bridging Scholarship and Practice, is with co-authors, C. Matherly & J. Wiers-Janssen on “Employability: How education abroad impacts transition to employment.” This is the latest in a series…