Faculty & Admin Resources
Faculty and Administrators also need resources that can help prepare them to work with the diverse student populations at our institutions.
Below are some curated resources to help guide you in equity, diversity, and inclusion issues in education abroad. Please contact TnCIS if we can be of assistance as you engage with these resources.
The following resources were curated from The Forum on Education Abroad:
Publicly available resources:
Forum EA membership required resources and training:
Publicly available resources:
- Forum News Special Edition: Anti-Racism and Social Justice in Education Abroad in support of BLM (June 4, 2020)
- Forum News Special Edition: Anti-Racism and Social Justice in Education Abroad in support of Asian American and Pacific Islanders (April 20, 2021)
- Meaningful Travel Tips and Tales: First Generation Students Abroad
- Building Inclusive Classrooms - Cornell University Center for Teaching Innovation
- Inclusive Teaching - Teaching Naked
Forum EA membership required resources and training:
Below are citations for resources from academic journals and other publications. Most should be available through your institution's library.
- Sutton, H. (2019), Communicate the value of study abroad programs for community college students. The Successful Registrar, 19: 4-5. https://doi.org/10.1002/tsr.30596.
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Coryell, Joellen E. “The Foreign City as Classroom: Adult Learning in Study Abroad.” Adult Learning, vol. 22, no. 3, June 2011, pp. 4–11, doi:10.1177/104515951102200301.
- Blake, D., Gasman, M., Esmieu, P. L., Castro Samayoa, A., & Cener, J. (2020). Culturally relevant study abroad for students of color: Lessons from the Frederick Douglass Global Fellowship in London. Journal of Diversity in Higher Education, 13(2), 158–168. https://doi.org/10.1037/dhe0000112
- Salisbury, M., Paulsen, M., & Pascarella, E. (2011). Why do All the Study Abroad Students Look Alike? Applying an Integrated Student Choice Model to Explore Differences in the Factors that Influence White and Minority Students' Intent to Study Abroad. Research in Higher Education, 52(2), 123-150.
The following are some additional website resources you may want to review.
- Diversity Abroad
- Diversity Abroad White Paper, Collaboration to Advance Racial Equity Through Education Abroad - To view the white paper you will be asked to complete a request form.
- Mobility International USA
- NAFSA DEI Resources
- Black + Abroad series – Recently recorded conversations about preparing for and undertaking study/travel abroad, and navigating Black identity outside the US.
- STAMPED podcast – Stories of study abroad & transformational travel from people of color.
- Article & Blog Series: DEI & Intercultural Learning in Higher Ed: Why the Bifurcated Approach? – Exploring the bifurcated approach in higher education to topics of international and domestic diversity: The background for this and how an intentional, inclusive approach to intercultural learning could potentially bridge the gap—supporting students from a wide variety of backgrounds and helping them all grow in their cultural identity and intercultural competence.