Council on Study Abroad
Mission:
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 advice 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.
The Mānoa 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 Mānoa (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, a Program Fiscal Manager, and Study Abroad Assistants. The Center also offers several internships for credits in various fields such as Business, Communications, Foreign Languages, to name a few.
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 student’s academic program courses completed overseas are designed to fulfill a student’s major, minor, certificate, core, foundations, diversification, language, or graduation requirements. All Study Abroad courses are expected to meet current Mānoa academic standards and are articulated as Mānoa courses. Study Abroad course work is completed overseas and is taught either by a Mānoa 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 Mānoa 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 Mānoa. 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 members in health, safety, risk and liability areas as well as conducts pre-departure cross-cultural training 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 at one of our 24 locations abroad. Application deadlines are usually in November 1 and December 1 for the next upcoming academic year.
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 Mānoa Faculty Senate Executive Committee. Membership on the Council is comprised of UHM faculty from a University of Hawai`i at Manoa College or an academic discipline, the Director of the Honors Program, one undergraduate and one graduate student, the Director of the Study Abroad Center and the Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs.
Member List, 2006-2007 Academic Year:
- Mimi Sharma, Chair, Asian Studies
- Frank Beaver, College of Arts and Humanities
- John Casken, Nursing
- Carlos FM Coimbra, Mechanical Engineering
- Steve Dawson, Finance
- Marie-Christine Garneau, Languages and Literature of Europe and the Americas
- Violet Horvath, School of Social Work
- Judith Kellogg, English
- Karl Kim, Urban and Regional Planning
- Mark Levin, William S. Richardson School of Law
- Gay G. Reed, Ed. Foundations
- Chhanny Sak-Humphry, Hawaiian and Indo-Pacific Languages and Literature
- Anne C. Shovic, Nutrition
- Tung T. Hoang, Microbiology Ex-Officio Members
- Kelly Aune, Office of the Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs
- James Caron, Honors Program
- Sarita Rai, Study Abroad Center