EF College Study college trips abroad

Tools from EF to help your students grow

Now more than ever, empathy, awareness, and adaptability are crucial for success, and as students encounter new cultures and environments, the opportunities to develop these skills increase. To capitalize on these moments, EF College Study offers a number of different tools designed to help educators facilitate student growth, both abroad and back on campus.

1. Academically enriched travel programs
2. Industry engagement opportunities
3. Global learning resources & faculty development
4. Global Competencies Assessment tool
5. Our Academic Affairs team

Academically enriched travel programs

Our EF College Study short-term, faculty-led study abroad programs are informed by academic institutions, current and former educators, our global network, and world-renowned partnerships.

Each program, whether it’s intercultural-focused, service learning-based, discipline-focused, or customized for your curriculum, includes a thoughtful itinerary, learning opportunities, and moments of reflection—a trifecta that drives growth of the soft skills students need throughout their academic, professional, and personal lives.

Industry engagement opportunities

No matter your area of study, you can always incorporate additional experiences designed to align with your course objectives—each curated by our team of educators and travel experts and measured by our assessment tool. Industry engagement opportunities include:

  • Lectures

  • Business visits

  • School visits

  • Panels and meet & greets

  • Workshops

  • Factory visits

Global learning resources & faculty development

EF College Study offers adaptable global learning tools and resources to help maximize the benefits of study abroad before your program, while you’re traveling, and after your group returns home. With us, you’ll get:

  • Discussion questions

  • Sample assignments

  • Journal prompts

  • Webinars

Global Competencies Assessment tool

EF’s Global Competencies Assessment tool delivers a pre- and post-program assessment that measures intercultural development both qualitatively and quantitatively. This tool was developed with a third-party research provider and leader in cultural competency assessments. Here’s what it can do:

  • Engage

    Facilitate learning and development throughout the program using prompts and reflection

  • Assess

    Measure soft skills, such as student confidence, global perspective, and adaptability

  • Analyze

    Analyze and compare individual reports and aggregate group reports

Our Academic Affairs team

Marissa Lombardi, Ed.D. | VP, Academic Affairs & Strategic Partnerships
Dr. Lombardi brings extensive higher education experience to her role as College Study’s senior academic leader. She oversees outcomes assessment, partners with faculty on curriculum integration, identifies new opportunities in international higher ed. and develops strategic partnerships.

Previously, she was Director of the Master of Science in Global Studies and International Relations program at Northeastern University and Faculty Scholar at their Center for Advancing Teaching and Learning through Research. She also served as dean of students at Lorenzo de’ Medici International Institute in Florence, Italy.
Courtney Grady | Academic Affairs Project Manager
Courtney manages the innovative, user-centered projects within our Academic Affairs department. These projects include our EF Global Learning Toolkit, Global Competencies Assessment, connecting with partner institutions’ Career Services to recruit students who have built necessary workplace global competencies through study abroad and managing learning events that drive an EF curriculum to further develop our international faculty leaders on their campuses.

She’s worked on cross-functional teams within EF including people-centered projects with our Recruitment & Employee Development team as well as tech-based projects with EF Engineering. She studied abroad in Seville, Spain and is passionate about making these study abroad experiences accessible as well as guiding students to articulate their global experience to future employers.

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