About
MY INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION MANIFESTO
Studying abroad can inspire new ideas, perspectives, and positive change. It sparks academic, personal, and professional growth for students. The more we experience the world, the more it can inform our perceptions, beliefs, and work; especially as we travel as students and learners. Done well, study abroad integrates with the arc of a full academic experience and can have lasting benefits in careers and lives.
I believe that study abroad should be possible for all students and that we have a duty to both broaden participation in study abroad and support inclusion of traditionally underrepresented students in study abroad.
I believe we should work to mitigate risks or prevent harm that can accompany study abroad activities for students, local people and communities, and our planet.
Designing, implementing, and operating programs that accomplish all requires that we partner, within and across institutions and organizations, to form and follow best practices in recruitment, advising, pedagogy, programming, equity and diversity, ethics, safety and risk management, business, technology, and fair trade and sustainability. And we must continually innovate, assess, and improve.
Easy, right?!
PRESENTATIONS
Undergraduate research in study abroad: ethics, curriculum, and trends. The Forum on Education Abroad conference, Boston, March 2018. Co-Presenters Christine Anderson and Helle Rytkønen.
Public engagement in undergraduate study abroad experiences: addressing society’s grand challenges. Advancing Publicly-Engaged Research, Teaching, and Learning conference, Minneapolis, March 2018. Co-Presenters June Nobbe, Ross VeLure Roholt, Heidi Soneson.
New advice for an old problem: gutsy strategies with pre-health students-- health careers competencies, not clinical experiences, while abroad. The Forum on Education Abroad conference, Seattle, March 2017. Co-Presenter Tricia Todd.
DIY: Strategies and best practices for building a “hands-on” study abroad program for undergraduates. Symposium on the Ethics of Help, Minneapolis, June 2017. Co-Presenter Julia Wheeler Ludden.
PUBLICATIONS
Whitehead, S.R., E. Reid, J. Sapp, K. Poveda, A.M. Royer, A.L. Posto, A. Kessler. 2014. A specialist herbivore uses chemical camouflage to overcome the defenses of an ant-plant mutualism. PlosOne, DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0102604.
Curran, T.J., E.M. Reid, and C. Skorik. 2010. Effects of a severe frost on riparian rainforest restoration in the Australian Wet Tropics: foliage retention by species and the role of forest shelter. Restoration Ecology,18(4): 408-413.
D.V. Calleri, II. E.M. Reid, R.B. Rosengaus, E.L. Vargo, J.F.A Traniello. 2006. Inbreeding and disease resistance in a social insect: effects of heterozygosity on immunocompetence in the termite Zootermopsis angusticollis. Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 273(1601): 2633-2640.