ISEP Initiatives

ISEP is expanding its programs and services and invites friends, sponsors, and foundations to join ISEP in these initiatives.

Scholarships

ISEP offers scholarships to:

• Make it possible for students with financial restraints to partake in exchange opportunities
• Encourage U.S. students to consider less traditional study abroad sites, such as Ghana, South Africa, Estonia, Latvia, Iceland, Egypt, Malta, Japan, Korea, Thailand, Uruguay, Costa Rica, Argentina, Hungary, and others
• Enable underserved groups to participate in international exchange programs
• Create more opportunities for students from other countries to study in the United States

Technology

To enhance its services to students and universities, ISEP is expanding its technological resources with the following objectives:

• Strengthen ISEP's technological infrastructure to support complex student application, placement, and tracking processes; further automate financial functions;
• Automate a matching system to identify study sites that meet students' needs; Provide statistical reports to track placement trends; and
• Develop user-friendly WWW systems that:
1. any university located outside of the U.S. may use to make relevant course information available online, in a U.S. student-friendly format;
2. ISEP can use to create a searchable course directory for U.S. students to identify schools that offer courses that will count towards their U.S. degrees; and
3. universities abroad may use to enhance their ability to exchange students with U.S. schools.

ISEP Alumni Development Fund

Over 34,000 U.S. and international students have participated in ISEP programs. Many have expressed an interest in retaining ties with the organization and their peers in order to continue to share knowledge gained from their exchange and study abroad experiences and to explore career opportunities. New technologies now give ISEP the opportunity not only to develop, but also to sustain an ISEP alumni and career services network.

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Regional Program Development

Grants to develop programs to increase and diversify the number of student exchanges between colleges and universities in the U.S. and other regions of the world, with a special focus on Asia, Latin America, and Sub-Saharan Africa.

Education and Training Workshops

Professional development workshops based in Washington, D.C., for ISEP coordinators that address issues particular to international student exchange and study abroad. Some workshops may focus on a particular region and bring together study abroad advisors (ISEP coordinators) from universities in the United States and around the world.

Faculty Outreach

To increase awareness and cooperation among faculty for international education, ISEP plans to develop symposia, study tours, and special faculty linkages. The linkages will include opportunities for interested U.S. and international faculty members to conduct research or teach a course at a host institution while on sabbatical from their home institution.

For more information please contact Karlene Masters by e-mail at kmasters@isep.org or phone at (703) 504-9960.