Recognized for knowing how to make international study trips work, Dr. Bonnie Higginson and Melanie McCallon have been invited by The Chronicle of Higher Education to share their expertise in an online chat on Friday, Feb. 12, at 11 a.m. The live chat can be found online at http://chronicle.com/article/Live-Chat-Innovators-in/63552.
Higginson and McCallon were featured in a Feb. 7 article in The Chronicle in both the print and online editions. Karin Fischer from The Chronicle interviewed Higginson, Murray State Universitys associate provost, and McCallon, the universitys associate director for education abroad.
The article, More Colleges Coach Professors to Lead Study-Abroad Trips, tapped McCallons knowledge on training faculty members in organizing and leading study abroad trips with students. McCallon works with Murray States faculty members from start to finish, from creating course proposals to how to deal with the breakout of an infectious disease while traveling in another country.
Higginson, who has led a group of students to Belize to teach and frequently traveled abroad, is aware of how intensive planning for such a course of study can be and the challenges they entail. Murray State has mandatory training combined with staff support before, during and after each trip.
Later this year McCallon, along with co-author Bill Holmes, the director of international education at Campbellsville University, will have their training manual, Faculty-Led 360: Guide to Successful Study Abroad, published.
The Chronicle article can be found online at http://chronicle.com/article/More-Colleges-Coach-Professors/63901.
