My colleague Bernhard Streitwieser, Senior Research Associate of the Searle Center for Teaching Excellence at Northwestern University is leading a joint research project between Northwestern’s Searle Center for Teaching Excellence and the Buffett Center for International and Comparative Studies entitled Student Conceptions of International Experience (SCIE). This research project may be off the radar of many practitioners (and researchers) in the field of international education (ie. my NAFSA and Forum on Education Abroad colleagues) so I thought I would post to IHEC Blog about it. I'm excited about this project for many reasons and am pleased to see this research coming out of these two centers at Northwestern University. You can learn more about the Student Conceptions of International Experience (SCIE) research project here.I recently had lunch with Bernhard and Shyanmei Wang, Program Associate at the Searle Center for Teaching Excellence and who is also working on the Student Conceptions of International Experience (SCIE) research project, to discuss the state of research in the field of study abroad and possible avenues for collaboration so stay tuned…
