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Broaden your knowledge of the education abroad field with a pre-conference workshop!
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Prioritizing Wellness in Education Abroad: Mental Health Support for Students, Staff, and Faculty 

Date: Wednesday, October 16, 2024
Time: 8am - 12 pm
Location: College Year in Athens

On-site education abroad faculty and staff are encountering a generation of students with wide ranging of mental health needs and concerns. Many feel underprepared to provide the necessary support that many education abroad students now demand, resulting in a wellness crisis across the education abroad field.

This workshop will provide practical solutions for host institutions and those supporting education abroad programming, to support mental wellness among your students, faculty, and staff before, during and after education abroad.

Why you should attend:
Gain practical skills and knowledge, through discussion and case studies, intended to empower education abroad champions in prioritizing mental wellness at every stage of the education abroad experience.

Understand when to address an emerging mental health or wellness issue from a student development or customer service perspective.

Attendees will engage in dynamic discussion and leave with key takeaways designed to enhance their ability to prepare for and respond to mental wellness challenges on education abroad.

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US Identity Politics & Education Abroad: Addressing Heated, Offensive, and Tense Moments Workshop

Date: Wednesday, October 16, 2024
Time: 1 - 5 pm 
Location: College Year in Athens
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In the U.S., Equity, Diversity and Inclusion has become a fraught topic in higher education. Much of the discourse around EDI is often rooted in specific understandings of speech, language, and identity. These understandings represent a challenge and opportunity for those working with U.S. programs abroad. Gaps in how students other conceptualize ‘identity’ as compared to others may create dissonance across different cultural contexts. When not recognized or attended to, this dissonance can morph into tensions that hinder intercultural learning, negatively impact the well-being of individuals directly involved and rupture educational relationships. In this session, we examine some of these factors and introduce a framework that faculty, staff and students can use to build their capacities to identify and mediate these moments when they occur.

Many students bring a highly sensitized awareness of discomfort, anxiety, vulnerability, and the importance of social justice. Staff and faculty abroad are expected to instinctively understand concerns about students’ identities despite the different cultural contexts. Fears of saying something unintentionally hurtful leads some to self-censor to avoid a H.O.T. (heated, offensive, tense) situation. Additionally, on-site staff and faculty are being asked to respond to students’ often intense, confusing, identity-based experiences in a different cultural context.

How can we do this most effectively? This workshop addresses the following questions, urgent for all who work in and with U.S. programs abroad:

1. How are these issues manifesting abroad with students in both formal and informal settings?
2. How can staff and faculty respond effectively as intercultural educators? 
3. How does U.S. identity politics compare with what’s happening in other parts of the world?

Registration Rates
Includes lunch and coffee breaks

	Regular	Late
Member Rate	$200	$275
Non-member Rate	$280	$355

 

 

 

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​Regular registration fees: Now until September 20, 2024
Late registration fees: September 21, 2024 to October 15, 2024 ​

Site Visits: Internships in Athens

Wednesday, October 16 | 8 am - 12 pm

Site visits will provide you with a better understanding of the internship experience in Athens as one example of best practices within Careers, Internships, and Global Learning. 
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Site visits will include: 

1. Overview of the internship experience for students coming to Greece 
2. ​Visits to at least two employers that host international interns 
3. Exploration of key local industry areas such as culture, business, hospitality, sustainability, history, and innovation  
4. Discussion of opportunities, challenges, and trends related to internships within Athens ​

CYA Open House

Wednesday, October 16
Forum conference attendees are invited to join CYA administration, faculty, students, and alumni for an  featuring educational workshops and onsite lectures in Athenian landmarks, led by CYA faculty.

​Registration for this event has been closed.