Study abroad

Forum on Education Abroad offers more specific guidance for programs of short duration.

Monies for overseas education can be meager. At some colleges, student fees of $5 to $14 are providing a significant pool of aid.

PORTLAND, Ore. -- Conventionally, conference sessions serve a purpose of further orienting participants into the accepted language and landscape of a shared profession. More rarely does a conference session for a professional association feature the opposite goal – to thoroughly rip apart the rhetoric and deconstruct a field’s founding myth.

Despite challenges, many colleges still expect increases in participation. Others, worried about transferring aid out of the institution, set limits.

Under new curriculum, Susquehanna U. says students must go away. But it's the course they take when they come back that's required.

Campuses are going green and going international. With air travel as the elephant in the room, how to reconcile the two?

Through eArmyU, the Army's online education program for soldiers, some 55,000 soldiers stationed in the Middle East are able to further their educations. Soldiers in Tikrit, Iraq didn't have that option, however, as the area -- known for its roadside bombings and other attacks -- was deemed too dangerous for the non-combat personnel who make eArmyU work on the ground. But now class is in session for about 100 Army National Guardsmen stationed at Forward Operating Base Speicher, in Tikrit.

Predominantly white and conservative community college in Wyoming aims to celebrate differences in culture, ethnicity and sexual orientation where there are few.

Student cheating, a common problem when it comes to American students, is complicated further when students cross cultures and ethical boundaries, sessions at registrars' meeting reveal.

Colleges are requiring global experiences, but are flexible in terms of where those experiences can take place.