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The University of Hawai`i Manoa Study Abroad
Center
Mission:
Students in the University of Hawai`i Manoa
Study Abroad Center Programs shall
acquire knowledge through academic work in other
countries and develop cross-cultural understanding
through cultural immersion. Faculty in Study
Abroad Programs shall have similar opportunities
for enrichment.
The
Manoa Strategic Plan 2002-2010 calls
for undergraduate educational effectiveness
and continues to endorse study abroad as one
the University’s strategic imperatives.
Thus, the University of Hawai`i Manoa (UHM)
Study Abroad Center (SAC) within the Office
of the Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs continues to provide overseas educational venues
for qualified students to study and for its
faculty to have similar opportunities for enrichment.
The
Center is headed by the Director,
three Study Abroad Advisors, and Study Abroad Student Assistants.
The Center also offers several internships for
credits in various fields such as Business, Communications, Foreign Languages, to name a
few. All Study Abroad Center team members have
participated in at least one UHM Study Abroad
Program.
The
Center offers programs for summer terms,
semesters, and academic years.
Any UHM credit course that is offered abroad
is delivered under the aegis of the UHM Study
Abroad Center. The programs have carefully
identified academic objectives. These programs
assist students in furthering or completing
their degree requirements. A student wishing
to participate in an overseas program should
be able to graduate within the time-frame allotted
to her/his degree program. Since these study
abroad programs are an integral of part of
a student’s academic program, courses completed
overseas are designed to fulfill major, minor, certificate, core, foundations,
diversification, language, or graduation requirements.
All Study Abroad courses are expected to meet
current Manoa academic standards and are articulated
as Manoa courses. Study Abroad course work
is completed overseas and is taught either
by a Manoa faculty or by faculty of an overseas
institution of higher education. The Center
is structured to appropriately respond to the
changing general education and specific programmatic
needs of the Manoa campus relative to overseas
offerings.
The
Center plays a variety of roles in creating,
administering, and evaluating academic Study
Abroad Programs for the University of Hawai`i
at Manoa. The Center specializes in overseas
academic program delivery, health, safety,
security, risk assessment and management through
a variety of means including on-site inspections
and program evaluations. As part of the Center’s
standard of care, it provides training to faculty
Resident Directors in health, safety, risk and liability
issues as well as conducts pre-departure cross-cultural
training and orientation sessions for the students.
Each
academic year the Study Abroad Center calls
for applications from UHM faculty who
are interested in teaching and or leading study
abroad programs in our various locations
abroad. Application
deadlines are usually in November 1 and December
1 for the next upcoming academic year programs in the summer and semester, respectively.
The Council
on Study Abroad is the Center’s
policy-making body and functions in an advisory
capacity to the Vice Chancellor for Academic
Affairs through a designee, the Director of
the UHM Study Abroad Center. Its fundamental
charges are to recommend
policy and advise on proposed Study Abroad
academic programs in terms of their feasibility
and consistency within established guidelines.
Members of the Council are appointed for a
three-year term by the UH Manoa Faculty Senate
Executive Committee. Membership on the Council
is comprised of the Director of
the Honors Program, one undergraduate and one
graduate student, the Director of the Study
Abroad Center, the Vice Chancellor for Academic
Affairs, and UHM faculty from various colleges and academic disciplines.
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