The Long-Term Impact of Study Abroad on Honors Program Alumni
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https://doi.org/10.36366/frontiers.v29i1.385Keywords:
Study abroad, Long-term impact, Honors program alumni, Education abroadAbstract
This article presents a study that presents an analysis of the long-term effects of study abroad on students from Elmhurst College Honors Program alumni from the classes of 2005-2014.
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Braid and Ada Long. 2nd ed. Lincoln: National Collegiate Honors Council, 2010.
51-54. NCHC Monograph Series. Print.
---. “Field-Based Education in ‘Semesters.’” Thought and Action: The NEA Higher Education
Journal (Spring 1990): 93-105. Print.
Braskamp, Larry A., David C. Braskamp, and Kelly C. Merrill. “Assessing Progress in Global Learning and Development of Students with Education Abroad Experiences.” Frontiers: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Study Abroad 18 (Fall 2009): 101-118. Print.
Camarena, Phame and Helen Collins. “Lessons from Ten Years of a Faculty-Led International Service-Learning Program: Planning, Implementation, and Benefits for First-Year Honors Students.” Preparing Tomorrow’s Global Leaders: Honors International Education. Eds. Mary Kay Mulvaney and Kim Klein. Lincoln, NE: National Collegiate Honors Council, 2013. 85-104. Print.
Dean, Kevin and Michael Jendzurski. “An Interpersonal Engagement Approach to International Study: Lessons in Leadership and Service Learning in South Africa.” Preparing Tomorrow’s Global Leaders: Honors International Education. Eds. Mary Kay Mulvaney and Kim Klein. Lincoln, NE: National Collegiate Honors Council, 2013. 105-132. Print.
DeGraaf, Don and Cynthia Slagter, Kelly Larsen & Elisa Ditta. “The Long-term Personal and Professional Impacts of Participating in a Study Abroad Program.” Frontiers: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Study Abroad 23 (Fall 2013): 42-59. Print.
Dewey, John. Experience and Education. 1938. New York: Touchstone, 1997. Print.
---. How We Think. 1910. New York: Prometheus Books, 1991. Print.
Doyle, Dennis. “Holistic Assessment and the Study Abroad Experience.” Frontiers: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Study Abroad 18 (Fall 2009). 143-155. Print.
Dwyer, Mary. “More is Better: The Impact of Study Abroad Program.” Frontiers: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Study Abroad 10 (Fall 2004). 151-164. Print.
Dwyer, Mary and Courtney Peters. “The Benefits of Study Abroad.” Transitions Abroad Magazine. Transitions Abroad Publishing. March/April 2004. Web. 16 July 2016.
Engle, Lilli. “The Rewards of Qualitative Assessment Appropriate to Study Abroad.” Frontiers: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Study Abroad 22 (Winter 2012/Spring 2013). 111-126. Print.
Franklin, Kimberly. “Long-term Career Impact and Professional Applicability of the Study Abroad Experience.” Frontiers: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Study Abroad 19 (Fall-Winter 2010). 169-190. Print.
Geertz, Clifford. Local Knowledge: Further Essays in Interpretive Anthropology. New York:
Basic Books, 1983. Print.
Generation Study Abroad. Institute for International Education. 2016. Web. 1 August 2016.
Kilgo, Cindy and Jessica Ezell Sheets & Ernest Pascarella. “The Link Between High-Impact Practices and Student Learning: Some Longitudinal Evidence.” Higher Education 69.4 (April 2015): 509-25. Print.
Kolb, David A. Experiential Learning: Experience as the Source of Learning and
Development. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1984. Print.
Kuh, George. High-Impact Educational Practices: What They Are, Who Has Access to Them,
and Why They Matter. Washington, D.C.: Association of American Colleges and
Universities, 2008. Print.
Kuh, George D., and Ken O’Donnell. Ensuring Quality & Taking High-Impact Practices to Scale. Washington, D.C.: Association of American Colleges and Universities, 2013. Print.
Kurt, Mark R., Neal H. Olitsky, and Paul Geis. “Assessing Global Awareness over Short-Term Study Abroad Sequence: A Factor Analysis.” Frontiers: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Study Abroad 23 (Fall 2013): 22-41. Print.
Levitz, Noel. “2015 Student Retention and College Completion Practices Benchmark Report. Web. 15 July 2016.
McLeod, Mark and Vince Carter, Steve Nowicki, Dana Tottenham, Philip Wainwright & Dana Wyner. “Evaluating the Study Abroad Experience Using the Framework of Rotter’s Social Learning Theory.” Frontiers: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Study Abroad 26 (Fall 2015): 30-38. Print.
McMillan, Amy Ruhter. “New Survey Shows College Graduates Who Study Abroad Land Career-Related Jobs Sooner, with Higher Starting Salaries.” http://www.prweb.com/releases/2012/prweb9541667.htm . Web.
Murphy, Dianna and Narek Sahakyan, Doua Yong-Yi & Sally Sieloff Magnan. “The Impact of Study Abroad on the Global Engagement of University Graduates.” Frontiers: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Study Abroad 22 (Fall 2014): 1-19. Print.
“NCHC Institutional Database 2012 Member Institution Survey Summary.” National Collegiate Honors Council. 27 June 2014. Web. 21 July 2016.
Open Doors 2015 “Fast Facts.” Institute of International Education. 16 November 2015. Web. 15 July 2016.
Paige, R. Michael and Gerald W. Fry, Elizabeth Stallman, Jae-Eun Jon & Jasmina Josic. “Beyond Immediate Impact: Study Abroad for Global Engagement” (SAGE). Report Submitted to the Title VI: International Research and Studies Program. U.S. Department of Education. 30 August 2010. Web. 15 July 2016.
Rexeisen, Richard J. and Philip Anderson, Leigh Lawson & Ann C. Hubbard. “Study Abroad and Intercultural Development: A Longitudinal Study.” Frontiers: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Study Abroad 17 (Fall 2008): 1-20. Print.
Shadowen, Noel and Lisa Chieffo & Nancy Guerra. “The Global Engagement Measurement Scale (GEMS): A New Scale for Assessing the Impact of Education Abroad and Campus Internationalization.” Frontiers: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Study Abroad 26 (Fall 2015): 231-247. Print.
Solomon, Andrew. Far and Away - Reporting on the Brink of Change: Seven Continents, Twenty-Five Years. New York: Scribner, 2016. Kindle Edition.
Stebleton, Michael J., Krista M. Soria, and Blythe T. Cherney. “The High Impact of Education
Abroad: College Students’ Engagement in International Experiences and the Development of Intercultural Competencies.” Frontiers: The Interdisciplinary Journal of
Study Abroad 22 (Winter 2012-Spring 2013): 1-24. Print.
Strikwerda, Robert. “Experiential Learning and City as Text™: Reflections on Kolb and
Kolb.” Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council 8.1 (2006): 99-105. Print.
Sutton, Richard and Donald Rubin. The GLOSSARI Project: Initial Findings from a System-Wide Research Initiative on Study Abroad Learning Outcomes. Frontiers: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Study Abroad 10 (Fall 2004): 65-82. Print.
Vande Berg, Michael and Jeffrey Connor-Linton & R. Michael Paige. “The Georgetown Consortium Project: Interventions for Student Learning Abroad.” Frontiers: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Study Abroad 18 (Fall 2009): 1-75. Print.
Vygotsky, Lev. Mind in Society: The Development of Higher Psychological Processes. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1978. Print.
___. Thought and Language. Ed. Alex Kozulin. Cambridge: MIT UP, 1986. Print.
Will, Madeline. “Giving to Colleges Rises 11%.” The Chronicle of Philanthropy. 28 January 2015. Web. 21 July 2016.
Williams, Tracy Rundstrom. “The Reflective Model of Intercultural Competency: A Multidimensional, Qualitative Approach to Study Abroad Assessment.” Frontiers: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Study Abroad 18 (Fall 2009): 289-306. Print.
Wolfensberger, Marca. “Honors Education and Global Citizenship.” Journal of National Collegiate Honors Council 13.2 (2012): 279-283. Print.
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2017-04-27
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Mulvaney, M. K. (2017). The Long-Term Impact of Study Abroad on Honors Program Alumni. Frontiers: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Study Abroad, 29(1), 46–67. https://doi.org/10.36366/frontiers.v29i1.385
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