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AED Guide to Welcoming Students to Your Campus

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The first edition of the Handbook for Hosting: The AED Guide to Welcoming U.S. Students to Your Campus has been released. Written for international institutions of higher education, the Handbook discusses best practices in education abroad for those hosting U.S. education abroad participants.

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WHAT IS THE HANDBOOK FOR HOSTING?

Written to build and enhance in-country, institutional capacity to serve as hosts for education abroad programs, the new AED Handbook for Hosting is a component of AED’s new Education Abroad Initiative. Institutional capacity building, an AED core commitment in its international development work, will encourage the establishment of more overseas study sites in nontraditional destinations for hosting U.S. students in quality education abroad experiences. AED will target a limited free distribution of the handbook to selected institutions in Africa and the Middle East, and make copies available for sale elsewhere.

TOPICS COVERED IN THE HANDBOOK FOR HOSTING

Please visit the table of contents for an overview of the Handbook for Hosting: AED Guide to Welcoming Students to Your Campus. The publication provides a comprehensive picture of the educational, student services, housing, and contractual relationships inherent in being a hosting partner with a U.S. educational institution or education abroad program provider. There are dedicated chapters to U.S. higher education, maintaining a successful collaborative relationship, providing appropriate student orientation, and addressing student health, safety, and security concerns The publication’s 360 pages of text includes 25 separate appendices containing sample forms and materials.

AUTHORS OF THE HANDBOOK FOR HOSTING

Among the authors for the Handbook for Hosting are:

During the writing, the contents were reviewed by a team of both U.S. education abroad professionals and overseas higher education administrators. As a final, pre-publication step, AED was pleased to host a special session with higher education colleagues at the NAFSA Conference in Montreal last May. The half-day event was conducted to review and get feedback on the handbook. Presenters were Patricia Martin and Stephen Ferst in addition to AED staff Sandra MacDonald, Carl A. Herrin, and Julia Phelan.