Passport to Change: Designing Academically Sound, Culturally Relevant, Short-Term, Faculty-Led Study Abroad Programs

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Susan Lee Pasquarelli earned her doctoral degree in Language Literacy and Cultural Studies from Boston University in 1996 and is a professor of literacy teacher education at Roger Williams University in Bristol Rhode Island USA. Integrating multicultural literature across the K-12 curricula is the focus of her research and teaching. For the past ten years she led successful short term study abroad programs in Rome and Sicily as well as served on the RWU study abroad advisory board to enhance the proposal process for faculty led programs. Pasquarelli has published and presented research and best practices at regional national and international conferences on both the improvement of K-12 literacy instruction and faculty-led short term study abroad programs.Robert A. Cole is Associate Provost for Academic Affairs at Roger Williams University. He oversees global and international programs on his campus. He has been a conference program reviewer for groups such as NAFSA and the American Association of Colleges and Universities and has presented at conferences on topics such as the Arab Spring and the role of liberal education in emerging democracies estranging undergraduate ethnographers through fieldwork abroad international internships and situating general education abroad. Cole was a participant on a U.S. Department of Education Fulbright-Hays grant for an immersion capacity building and a curriculum development project related to Egypt and the Middle East North Africa region and a contributor to a US Department of Education (Title VI) Undergraduate International Studies and Foreign Language Programs grant. He has also developed short-term faculty-led curriculum for students cultural immersion in The Netherlands Belgium and Northern Germany region. Cole holds a Ph.D. in Communication.Michael J. Tyson is the Assistant Director for Study Abroad in Wake Forest Universitys Center for Global Programs and Studies where he has served as the dedicated representative for all summer abroad programming since 2010. His responsibilities include managing up to twenty WFU short-term faculty-led programs annually assisting faculty in their program development from inception to completion and administering program details like marketing the budgetary process and student registration. He also advises all students interested in summer study abroad. In addition to his programming and advising responsibilities he manages the scholarship process for summer programs and acts as an evaluator for the universitys Fulbright Review Committee. He has led student service trips to both Jamaica and Russia and has also spent time teaching English in Mexico. Mike holds a BA from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte and a MEd from the University of South Carolina.Hilary Landorf is Executive Director of the Office of Global Learning Initiatives at Florida International University (FIU). The Office oversees FIUs university-wide initiative Global Learning for Global Citizenship winner of the Institute of International Educations 2016 Heiskell Award for Internationalizing the Campus. Hilary also serves as Executive Director of the Comparative and International Education Society. She is an Associate Professor in FIUs School of Education and Human Development and leader of its Master of Science degree program in International and Intercultural Education. Hilarys expertise centers on visioning developing designing and implementing the policies and practices of global learning efforts in higher education. She writes consults and presents internationally on integrating global learning in K-20 educational settings. Her recent publications include Defining Global Learning at Florida International University in AAC&Us Diversity and Democracy co-authored with Stephanie Doscher; Global Perspectives on Global Citizenship in Contesting and Constructing International Perspectives in Global Education; and Using Democratic Deliberation in an Internationalization Effort in Higher Education in Disrupting Adult and Community Education: Teaching Learning and Working in the Periphery.