Fall UMTC Education Abroad Network Meeting
Wednesday, October 30, 2019
3:00-4:30 p.m.
402 Walter Library, East Bank


Session Description
Group dynamics and student behavior on learning abroad programs can make or break the experience for the program instructor, the host culture, and sometimes the overall student cohort.

June Nobbe, Assistant Vice Provost for Student Life and Learning Abroad Center staff will share strategies and resources that have been employed to minimize negative effects of student behaviors and dynamics on instructor-led and LAC center-based programs.  Examples include personality clashes, dealing with cliques, inter-group political or identity clashes, and lack of respectful engagement.  How can we as a university community be an ally to students as they embark on a program abroad?  

Following presentations, ample time will be reserved for discussing how we can initiate conversations to students think more about how they will be perceived in a different cultural context, how to navigate a new peer cohort, and ways to encourage students to practice self-awareness in the host culture.

June Nobbe is Assistant Vice Provost for Student Life. She has led multiple Global Seminars to Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland, Turkey, Argentina, and  Panama. June has developed a semester-long cultural engagement curriculum for Learning Abroad Center programs in Rome, Florence, Montpellier, and Istanbul.

Please join us!