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…
Dear David,
ReplyDeleteIt was our pleasure meeting with you to share our project (SCIE). I believe that it is our responsibilities as international education scholars or administrators to think and plan carefully what we promise to our students when we send them overseas to study or recruit international students to our campus. How do we create a meaningful international experience for our students (both study-abroad and international students) is what I always have in mind.