Who's Who:
Shelley Taylor
Director, sztaylor@iastate.edu,
Oversees all student program activities and provides leadership for faculty development.
Jodi Cornell
Program Assistant, jcornell@iastate.edu,
Develops programs, advises and recruits students, acts as liaison with group leaders, a liaison with university offices, and is coordinator for exchanges.
Difei Shen
Global Academic Programs Coordinator, dfshen@iastate.edu,
Advises and recruits students, coordinator of "Student Travel Consultant" Program, and administrates participant evaluations.
Our goals for 2005 - 2010 are to:
- Double the number of students going on semester-long programs (47 in 2004)
- Generate two new opportunities to involve the 93% of College of Agriculture students who don’t go abroad in any given year in some sort of international program. They are: AgriCULTURAL Global Students and Student Travel Consultants.
- Use student focus groups, stakeholder focus groups and scenario planning to develop an effective marketing plan that will increase the percentage of students recruited
- Continue to provide high quality faculty service (including logistical support, recognition and rewards for group leaders and training for new leaders)
- Develop and implement more thorough evaluation methods to measure program quality
Student Services Available
We advise students on travel programs, travel resources, and scholarships
Faculty Services Available
We provide administrative help in developing and implementing international opportunities (accounting, logistical travel support, meeting university requirements, communicating with international partners, liaison with students, liaison with other university offices like financial aid, registrar, admissions, treasurer)
We also have partial travel grants for initial site visits and/or for group leader expenses during travel courses.
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