CCSA embarked on an effort to address the broad issue of assessment with the Forum on Educational Abroad Standards of Good Practice. The Quality Assurance Work Plan will guide CCSA’s decision-making to assure students, their home institution, and their families that CCSA provides a solid academic experience that advances each student’s education plan in anContinue reading Quality Assurance Work Plan
CCSA is more than a study abroad consortium. Yes. We provide students global learning opportunities both within the United States and around the world. Yes. CCSA supports our member institutions by augmenting their internal staff and programs through our outreach, scholarship, and application system. And yes. We provide faculty the opportunity to teach in newContinue reading CCSA Coaching Program Supports Faculty Professional Development
We always keeps our eyes on the future. Summer 21 programs are open with a March 26 application deadline. However, we also know that students want Winter program options as well. CCSA’s Winter 21-22 programs are now open — earlier than ever — since we know students want to plan their study abroad. Is NewContinue reading CCSA Winter 21-22 Program Open
As we prepare for summer study abroad programs, it is time to check your passport. The last thing you want, after all this time, is to find out your passport has expired. Students, faculty, and program administrators each need to check their passport. Find it. Look at it. Check expiration date. We recommend that itContinue reading Passport update
CCSA hits a goal we’ve had for several years. While we’d all prefer that this was not brought on by a pandemic, we make lemonade when there are only lemons. CCSA Select is our new portfolio of programs offered in domestic U.S. locations. We refer to them as study away as a companion to studyContinue reading Study away with CCSA
CCSA promotes global citizenship by building a community of scholars in which we share what we learn outside a structured classroom setting, encouraging independence and responsibility among our students and faculty, providing professional development for faculty and staff to positively impact the global teaching and learning experience, and promoting inter-generational teaching and learning through courseworkContinue reading Summer 2021 Catalog Programs are open.
We all move into the new semester with a sense of uncertainty in the air. While mask-wearing, social distancing, and hand washing are within our control, many things are out of our control. We look forward to the vaccines that will enable life to return to more normal patterns, but we cannot let uncertainty winContinue reading Managing Uncertainty
CCSA launched this new effort to deepen and expand our impact on student learning by applying Multimodal Global Learning to our courses. We had to hit this mid-stride in respond to the pandemic, but now we continue to guide all our courses to this model. CCSA offers a multimodal global learning structure. The hybrid programContinue reading Multimodal Global Learning (part 2)
The pandemic has thrown the CCSA growth plan and strategic plan off course. Like our member schools, CCSA must retool our budget to address the drastic loss of revenue. The cancellation of the Summer 2020 programs put CCSA on a path to manage our expenses very carefully while keeping the staff in place to maintainContinue reading CCSA Transition Work Plan
CCSA is proud of our alumni and their accomplishments. This term we are recognizing Heather Schieman for her involvement and success in the field of Education Abroad. As an undergraduate, Heather participated on the 2004 London Summer Program, and subsequently served as an onsite RA for 3 summers. In her words: CCSA “shaped who IContinue reading Alumni Spotlight: Heather Schieman