The entire team at ARAMFO
showed great kindness and was
quick to make right anything
that was wrong, wanting nothing
more than for our faculty and
students to have the best
experience possible.
that this works best when the faculty
acted and communicated early with
ARAMFO, as it was difficult to make
significant adjustments at the last
minute. ARAMFO helped faculty
realize that last minute changes
can impede student experience,
while also making it difficult for
the local logistics partners who
meticulously plan each and every
moment of the experience striving
to make it a lifetime experience. At
the same time, students also came
to recognize that despite all the
best planning, all events may not
go entirely as planned. Gauging the
student and faculty interest, local
partners added beautiful surprising
touches, and adeptly made
adjustments when local conditions
so demanded.
Students told us
that the programs
were the “best
experience of their
lives”.
We found our summer programs
with ARAMFO last year quite
successful one. Students reported
excitement and enthusiasm.
They achieved great academic
outcomes with terrific value for
money. Local partners were
fun and genuinely concerned
about student learning, safety
and welfare. Students told us
that the programs were the “best
experience of their lives”. They
came to recognize how they could
change the world through their
decisions and their touches.
After the success of this pilot,
this year, we decided to expand
our relationship with ARAMFO.
We have faculty from both
our college and outside our
college who are offering
their study abroad programs
through ARAMFO. ARAMFO
has committed to strive their
best to make the programs
even more affordable, without
compromising on the quality.
The costs of the programs now
are lower than what we could
achieve ourselves, while the
quality is top notch. This has
allowed us to rely more on
our faculty to work with ARAMFO
in developing custom travel
agendas, while administratively,
we are able to focus on partnering
with our faculty to educate widest
group of our students about the
tremendous lifetime value of
study abroad.
I thank ARAMFO for their
support, and encourage you
to also consider ARAMFO as a
partner if you are serious about
moving the needle on raising
study abroad participation on
your campus.
Dr. Vipin Gupta is the Associate Dean of the College of Business &
Public Administration and the Co-director of the Center for Global
Management at California State University at San Bernardino. He is
currently the 2015-16 American Council of Education Fellow.
Source: Brandenburg, Uwe. Et al. The Erasmus Impact Study: Effects of Mobility on the Skills and Employability of Students
and the Internationalisation of Higher Education Institutions. European Union, Sept. 2014. Web.
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