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In this workshop we will discuss the process, considerations, and strategy behind developing education abroad programs using real life examples. We will also focus on recruiting students for those programs and how we provide support once students are abroad.
Valerie Slate is the Director of Global Programs, for the MBA Program at UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School. She has over twenty of experience working in international education at both large state universities and a small private college. Valerie has an Interdisciplinary Master’s degree from Texas Tech University where she focused on non-profit and arts management. In her current role Valerie leads a professional team that works across the different MBA platforms to deliver high impact international programing to the MBA student body which consists of 1,600 graduate students across full time, executive evening and weekend and MBA@UNC formats. She provides leadership, content development, assessment design, risk management, strategy and operations for a wide variety of international programming.
Kim Howard was appointed Director of the Office of International Education at the University of Vermont in Fall 2008. She oversees a talented team committed to a work environment filled with integrity, respect, optimism, humor and collaboration balanced with autonomy. Kim has led the department during a period of significant growth in international activity at UVM: the doubling of international student enrollment and the opening (and later closing) of the University’s first pathway programs; the expansion of exchange program/education abroad participation; bringing in-house the administration of non-immigrant casework for UVM employees; and implementing web-based data and work flow systems for a largely paperless office.
As a member of NAFSA’s Trainer Corps, Kim has trained colleagues nationally and regionally on risk assessment, crisis management, and health and safety in education abroad, and on managing an education abroad office. She also has presented at or collaborated on several regional and national conference sessions through Diversity Abroad, NAFSA and URMIA. Kim was the lead book editor of Out & About Campus: Personal Accounts by Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender College Students.
Kim’s tenure at UVM spans 20 years, including positions in Undergraduate Admissions and in Orientation. Kim earned her master’s in higher education and student affairs administration from the University of Vermont, and her bachelor’s in ethnic studies from U.C. Berkeley. Kim’s non-higher education professional background includes work in journalism, public relations and teaching in Japan, where her passion for international education began. A native of California, Kim loves hiking and playing with her dogs.
Todd currently serves as the Director of Education Abroad at The University of New Mexico. Prior to UNM, Todd was the Assistant Director of University of Nebraska Online. He has served in various international education roles at Iowa State University, North Dakota State University, Indiana University, and Arcadia University’s College of Global Studies. Throughout his career in education abroad, Todd has focused on program development, institutional exchange partnerships, managing site-specific programs, student recruitment and advising, and facilitating faculty advising and training programs. He also has experience working ISS and international student recruitment and admissions.
Todd is currently pursuing his Ph.D. in Higher Education from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, focusing on how rural students reconcile their post-study abroad self with their home communities.
As a student, Todd was an exchange student at Sapporo University in Japan; participated in the Salzburg Seminar short-term program in Austria; and was a graduate intern at the University of Otago in New Zealand. As a professional, Todd has participated in numerous education abroad site visits in Europe, Asia, and Australia/New Zealand. Todd also has experience recruiting students in Asia to study in the U.S.