Ireland Fall Forum 2022 with ISAI

U.S. institutions partner with Ireland for professional development

When: September 22-28, 2022
Where: ​Dublin City and ISAI Campus, Donegal, Ireland

Reboot Your Internationalization Program

The Institute of Study Abroad Ireland (ISAI) has successfully developed long-term partnerships with many U.S. Schools and Colleges, and in association with CCID, we have created a short professional development study trip in Ireland. Our seminars will discuss best practices for faculty-led programs. We focus on how providers and sending schools can work together to provide programs that are accessible to a wide range of students, and that deliver structured and focused academic learning outcomes compatible with the ethos and goals of the college courses.

​Topics will include timelines for programming, ensuring academic excellence, effective methods of collaboration between study abroad advisors and faculty leaders, models for new initiatives and collaborative/consortia projects, program promotion to students, and a successful integration of study abroad goals with the overall goals of the sending institutions. Our seminars are conducted by experienced study abroad professionals from the U.S. and expert providers in Ireland.

Join a professional development forum for Early College, Community College & Consortia Administrators, Study Abroad Advisors and Faculty leaders, interested in creating or increasing the capacity of the educational institution to offer high quality, affordable and accessible short-term study abroad programming.

We will focus on how to create effective short-term, faculty-led, study abroad programs for educational institutions that meet:

• Institutional goals
• Curriculum goals
• Faculty Engagement 
• Student Engagement
• Modern Approaches to Internationalization

Faculty Lead Discussions

Our seminars and workshops will cover:

• Building and using online content in your classroom
• Growing faculty and institutional enthusiasm for internationalizing
• Logistics and supports for both online courses and study travel
• Creating collaborative partnerships with other institutions
• Addressing the challenges of post-Covid travel and cultural competency

Forum facilitators:

• Stephanie Kelly Ph.D. - Executive Director CCID
• Niamh Hamill Ph.D. - Director ISAI
• John O’Connell - Director ISAI

Forum Objectives

It is widely acknowledged that students who get the opportunity to travel abroad can have transformative learning experiences. However, administrators and faculty are keen to develop study abroad programs that are integrated with institutional goals such as interdisciplinary teaching, the development of critical and comparative thinking, and personal development. Study trips that are included as a course component and are evaluated accurately in terms of evidence of learning, and of value to the institution and leading faculty, are now the goal.

​A well-executed and planned short-term program as a component of a college or school course requires engagement and expertise, from curriculum planning to the logistics of travel, and demands the engagement of administrators, faculty, the study abroad providers, and the travelling student. For many students, programs are also required to be affordable, accessible and appealing to a diverse student body. 

Provisional Itinerary

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 22

• Depart USA for Dublin, Ireland

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 23

• Check in to Dublin Hotel and  introductory Workshop: Ireland &  Academic Study Abroad  Programming for Higher Ed Colleges
• Guided Tour of Epic Ireland Diaspora Exhibition
• Group dinner and discussion

SATURDAY,SEPTEMBER 24

• Travel to Institute of Study Abroad  Ireland campus in Donegal, Lunch at Hill of Tara
• Evening Seminar: Interdisciplinary Approaches to online & Study Trip Programming
• Traditional Irish meal and music session

SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 25

• Presentation: Using Shared Narratives to Internationalize the Curriculum
• Presentation: The Fear Factor in Study Abroad
• ​Guided field trip to Donegal Tweed Center & Sliabh Liag Cliffs
• Evening Meal in Killybegs

MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 26

• Lecture: The Civil Rights Journey of Northern Ireland
• Visit to Letterkenny Institute of Technology
• Field trip to Derry City, Northern Ireland, including Bloody Sunday Civil Rights Museum
• Group dinner and discussion

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 27

• Presentation: Logistics & Planning a Faculty-led study trip
• Return to Dublin via Yeats country
• Debrief, Q&A and Lunch in Dublin
• Check-in to Dublin Hotel
• Forum Concludes

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 28

• Return to USA/Own time in Ireland

Fees
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• Early bird cost: $840 per person, double occupancy*, booked by June 30 2022
• Normal cost: $980 per person, double  occupancy*, booked after June 30 2020
• Single room supplement: $550 (Total)

Fee includes: 2 nights in Dublin (4* Hotel), 3 nights at ISAI Campus Donegal (Private Apartments), all land transfers, breakfast and evening meals, training, lectures, field trips and other excursions.

*Cost does not include airfare from USA and supplements apply for single rooms