What is the leveraging concept?
By making colleges’ and universities’ commitment to the advancement of study abroad a prerequisite for access to federal funds, the program will leverage institutional resources and bring about necessary reforms to address the various barriers – curriculum, faculty involvement, institutional leadership, and programming – that currently exist on many campuses. Such a dramatic increase in the number of students studying abroad each year cannot be accomplished unless changes are made at the campus level to make study abroad more accessible to each student. This concept is not only essential to achieving the program’s mandate, but it also helps control the cost of the program.
