StudyAbroad.com’s The Globe

You’ve heard the phrase “when life gives you lemons - make lemonade” well this concept has been applied to a café on the campus of Faulkner University except they are giving the faculty and the students a taste of a European Café.
Café Siena is based on a concept that came out of an assignment from a business [...]

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It would be easy to confuse these 9 NYU students as tourists but they are actually studying the tourists. 
In an effort to teach students the tourist culture of a city, Professor Sharr Prohaska from the Preston Robert Tisch Center for Hospitality, Tourism and Sports Management at New York University has taken 9 NYU students to Prague [...]

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Are universities cheating their own students out of study abroad options?
Richard C. Sutton, the University System of Georgia Board of Regents, recently wrote a thought-provoking opinion piece for Inside Higher Ed which suggests just that. Sutton, vice chancellor for international programs at the Board, had some biting criticism of the ways in which some [...]

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Now that the spotlight has shown on Beijing for the Olympics will this generate more interest to study abroad there?  With great media coverage usually interest follows.  I would not be surprised to see an increase in student interest to study abroad in China.
On the flip side of the obvious I read a story that [...]

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Six ASU students earned Freeman Awards for Study in Asia, allowing them to participate in an intensive course on Chinese language and culture in Beijing this summer.
“ASU has a strong commitment to programming in China, so we are very pleased that six of our students competed successfully for the Freeman-ASIA scholarships,” says Kathleen Fairfax, associate [...]

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Amy Klapchuk a student at Grand Valley State University is taking advantage of a grant that will cover the costs of her travel and lodging while she studies in Poland and Hungary.  At a time when travel costs are high this grant will help students make studying abroad possible.
“It’ll be a chance to see the history and the [...]

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Utica Community Schools was just awarded a $1.5 million federal grant to establish a Mandarin Chinese language program, according to the Macomb Daily.
Says Utica Superintendent Christine Johns, “We are thrilled with the aspect of providing instruction in Mandarin Chinese to our students.”
As the terrifically named Macomb staff writer Frank DeFrank writes in the article, “With [...]

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45 University of Delaware students and 3 faculty members arrived in China this week to begin a 4 week long study abroad program.
The program, run by the Department of Health, Nutrition and Exercise Sciences will allow the students to get (what may be) a once in lifetime experience of combing their studies and the Olympic [...]

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