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Insights Newsletter
October 2019
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Insights Newsletter October 2019
EVENTS
Join CEA at Our Upcoming Events
CEA has a full schedule of events we’re hosting or attending this academic year, and we hope they give us a chance to connect with you in person.
The following are this semester’s event deadlines and events.
Custom & Faculty-led Advisor Workshop
CEA kicks off every year with our annual winter advisor workshop, and in 2020, the winter workshop’s theme is custom and faculty-led programs. Taking place January 28-31 in Phoenix, AZ, the workshop will explore and examine best practices for creating and running custom study abroad programs.
Spring 2020 Familiarization Trip – Dublin
Our first FamTrip of 2020 will take our guests to Dublin, Ireland from March 1-5. We’re giving attendees the opportunity to make an optional site visit to Amsterdam to learn more about our programs on March 6. The participant fee covers accommodations, cultural activities, ground transportation, some of your meals, and transportation from Dublin to Amsterdam.
The deadline to nominate yourself or a colleague for the Dublin 2020 Famtrip is November 29, 2019. Please check out the Famtrip webpage for more information.
Apply NowHBCU Symposium on Study Abroad
CEA is proud to be a visionary sponsor at Howard University’s second HBCU Symposium on Study Abroad in Washington D.C. We’ll be attending this one-day event on November 2, 2019 and participating in a panel discussion on what international education organizations like CEA can offer to HBCUs in study abroad programming. We look forward to learning from HBCU representatives and contributing to the discussion on increasing African American student participation in study abroad.
National Collegiate Honors Council Conference
CEA will be attending this year’s NCHC annual conference in New Orleans, from November 6-10. We look forward to seeing you there and talking with you about the conference theme: honors, creativity, and innovation.
NAFSA Regionals
Several of our University Regional Directors will be attending the annual NAFSA Regional Conferences in their respective areas this semester.
- Region IV | Fargo, North Dakota | October 21-24 – URD Jon Jorgenson
- Region VI | Indianapolis, IN | October 27-29 – URD Alexis Jones
- Region XI | Worcester, MA | October 29-31 – URD Sean Williams
- Region III | Addison, TX | November 3-6 – URD Kelly Wilkinson
- Region V | Milwaukee, WI | November 4-6 – URD Jon Jorgenson and Justin Schaefer
- Region XII | Pasadena, CA | November 4-8 – URD Matt Janus
- Region I | Tacoma, WA | November 5-8 – URD Giustina Pelosi
- Region VIII | Baltimore, MD | November 12-15 – URD Seth Weil
- Region VII | Orlando, FL | November 17-20 – URD Carissa Williams Murray
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Please reach out to your University Regional Director if you’d like to set up a meeting with CEA at the conferences we’re attending or if you have questions about our Advisor Workshop and FamTrip.
PROGRAMS
Summer in Colombia: Study Abroad for the Bold
In response to student demand for short-term, culturally relevant, affordable programming, CEA has developed two summer programs in Bogotá, Colombia. These programs are perfect for students who are interested in Latin America but don’t have the time or funds available to complete a semester-long program.
Colombia Today: Language, Culture, and Politics offers students three fascinating cultural and political studies courses to choose from, with the option of adding a Spanish language course. The core course options include:
- Coffee and Chocolate: Production, Consumption, and Social Impacts in Colombia
- Latin American Fashion: a Cultural Voyage
- War & Peace in Colombia
All three courses examine their topics through a Colombian lens and seek to raise student understanding of Latin American and Colombian culture, history, and current events. Each of these courses is taught in English. Students must choose only one of them for this four-week program.
Intensive Spanish Language is a four-week crash course in speaking and writing Spanish. Students can make significant progress in their Spanish proficiency through a combination of language courses taught in Spanish and their interaction with the Spanish-speaking Colombian locals.
These short programs are offered through CEA’s partner, Universidad de la Sabana, on a beautiful suburban campus just north of Bogotá. Each program is a great way for students to experience Colombia and add academic value to their summer break.
Contact your CEA University Regional Director for more information on our summer programs in Bogotá.
ADVISING TOOLS
CEA Scholarships Deadlines Approaching
Cost is often a top concern for students who want to study abroad, but with proper advising, they can see a path to affording the program they want to experience. Having practical, straightforward discussions with your students about paying for study abroad will help more of them make it overseas, feeling confident they made the right decision.
In addition to any transferable financial aid and university-specific funds available to them, students can pay for their study abroad program with scholarships and other third-party funds from a wide range of sources. Encourage your students to look for scholarship money outside your university’s exclusive funding system and beyond federal grants and loans. Students can also explore individual fundraising and payment plans to make their program more affordable.
CEA believes international education should be accessible to all students, which is why we commit more than $2 million a year to our scholarship opportunities. We offer need-based, diversity, and academic merit scholarships every term, and awards range from $500 to $3000. We also provide special affiliate scholarships and custom & faculty-led program scholarships. We encourage interested students to apply early, as the scholarship selection process is highly competitive. Students may apply for both a CEA academic merit or diversity scholarship and a need-based scholarship, but only one scholarship will be awarded per student.
The deadline for Spring 2020 scholarships is November 15, 2019. All applications must be submitted by 11:59 p.m. MST. Late applications will not be accepted.
It takes 30-45 days after each application deadline for award decisions to be made and announced. Scholarship awards are credited to the student’s program balance or sent as a reimbursement check to their permanent address.
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