campus partner(s)

Great Lakes Colleges Association

Associated Colleges of the Midwest

and the Center of Inquiry in theLiberal Arts at Wabash College

state(s)

MI, IL, IN

amount

$214,863

initiative

Fresh Thinking

award date

02.2009

project director

Richard Detweiler

Great Lakes Colleges Association

Grant Summary

$214,863 over 37 months to support three complementary studies that are focused on the relationship of study abroad experiences and student learning: (1) The Learning from Study Abroad Project which will use the Learning from Study Abroad instrument (LSA) at a large scale (funded by a previous Teagle grant); (2) The Expanded Context for Liberal Arts Learning Project which will modify programming and curricular practices on the basis of data collected from the LSA; and (3) The Costs of Study Abroad Project which will run a cost analysis of study abroad programs.