The secret to rebuilding study abroad: case study in Ireland’s Phobal
“As we dust ourselves off, we find ourselves trying to embrace and rebuild study abroad in a new way”
Study abroad isn’t what it used to be.
With the collapse of many programs and the seat-of-your pants decisions to cancel, withdraw, shift, digitise, and more in the last two years, many study abroad programs were forced to reduce staff and/or create efficiencies and alternatives to students’ amplifying experiences in the world. Karin Fischer gives a strong voice to the stress and devastation of Covid on study abroad offices in her Chronicle of Higher Education article, raising more questions for the field of international education about our future, and the student experience.