Information for Faculty and Advisors

Publications

IPSL publications that have been particularly useful to students and study abroad advisors include:

How to Serve & Learn Abroad Effectively: Students Tell Students
A lively and readable book that helps students to choose a study abroad and/or volunteer program that is right for them and then give and get the most through their volunteer service at home or abroad. It is also useful to those who advise, orient, and re-enter study abroad students.

Charting a Hero’s Journey
Based on the work of Joseph Campbell and using excerpts from the journals of such people as Jane Addams, Langston Hughes, Octavio Paz, Samuel Johnson, Mary Kingsley, and Kathleen Norris, Charting a Hero's Journey is a guide to the writing of a journal for college students engaged in study abroad, off-campus study, and/or service-learning. Now in its second printing, Charting a Hero’s Journey is used in IPSL programs and by educators across the country.

Understanding the Education—And Through It the Culture—in Education Abroad Based on the premise that an educational system both reflects and shapes a culture, this short book is a guide for students going abroad to study, leading them step-by-step through an in-depth investigation of the university they attend overseas and higher education in their host country. Useful for study abroad advisors as well.