For Faculty - New Proposals
Characteristics of a Successful Faculty Director:
Are you adventurous, flexible, adaptable? Will you be able to maintain your composure and improvise if things don't go as planned? Remember that travel is full of unexpected events.
Do you enjoy spending time with students in a non-academic setting and helping them with non-academic matters? You may have to deal with homesickness, lost passports, conduct issues [excessive drinking, lateness], family emergencies, roommate or host family issues, and more!
Do you have a sense of humor? VERY important!
Are you a good organizer and bookkeeper? You will need to gather cost information, develop a budget (with our help), and stick to it. You will be entrusted with thousands of dollars of University funds and will have to properly account for how you spend them. At the same time you will have to teach your course(s) and grade assignments.
Do you have the time (for preparation, program, and wrap-up)? Will other obligations permit you to recruit students, attend several pre-departure meetings, invest time in budget and itinerary planning, go abroad , and come home to deal with financial reconciliation and the program report?
