Does Bates belong to study abroad organizations?
Bates is a member of the following organizations: the Associated Kyoto Program consortium; the Council on International Educational Exchange; the Forum on Education Abroad; the Intercollegiate Consortium for Classical Studies; IES Abroad; the Intercollegiate Sri Lanka Education program; the South India Term Abroad program; the Washington Semester program. Dean Sawyer, the Director of Off-Campus Study, is a member of the National Advisors Council of the Institute for Study Abroad (IFSA-Butler) and a past member of the Partnership Council of SIT Study Abroad and of the National Advisory Board of Arcadia University’s College of Global Studies. Bates pays annual dues for some of these memberships. Occasionally, these organizations sponsor site-visits to their programs, meetings, or other events for Bates faculty or staff. The costs of these activities are often shared with Bates, but this varies by organization and activity.
