Travel Assist | International Programs

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International Programs

The Fund for Expeditionary Learning

COA offers college students with as much as $1,800 to help international and civic engagement and experiential, travel-related studying. Supported tasks embody COA programs with a journey part in addition to impartial research and residencies. Funds can be utilized to help each home and overseas journey. Students in good educational, monetary, and social standing could start accessing their funds as early as their second yr.

Criteria for award of the COA Fund for Expeditionary Learning:

The program helps:

  • Fees and journey bills related to credit-bearing actions which have a non-local journey part (i.e. 100 miles or higher for lessons, residencies, impartial research, internships, or senior tasks)
  • Materials and tools as much as $500 of whole award
  • Travel, room, and board bills to conferences associated to the scholars area of examine and assuming {that a}) the coed has tried to cut back the price of attendance as a lot as potential by making use of pupil scholarships and charges related to that convention, and b) the coed is making a significant contribution to the convention (presentation, panel participant, workshop organizer, and so forth.)

The program doesn’t help:

  • Tuition, honorariums, non-COA program charges (exceptions: EcoLeague or NOLS) or stipends of any variety. Similarly, the fund doesn’t help non-travel lab charges or long-term (greater than 2 weeks) housing

Disbursements will probably be processed 3 times every educational yr (fall, winter, and spring) although college students could submit purposes for the following disbursement cycle up till the deadline for that time period. The deadline to submit is Friday of week three every time period.

Student voices

COA Might be Right for You if…

…you’re able to have your life and identification flipped on its head and dunked within the ocean repeatedly

Jonna Lynn Nielsen ’27

…you don’t know what you wish to examine as a result of you’ve got far too many pursuits to simply focus in on considered one of them. 

Wilson Korneev ’28

…you wish to be in a small group the place individuals will keep in mind your identify.

Alya Kiiashko ’25

…you wish to meet politically, emotionally, and academically engaged individuals.

Alder Ame ’27

…you suppose being despatched to the oceanside to enhance your psychological well being really sounds superior (it completely is).

Carolina de Oliveira Castro ’26

…you possibly can take initiative to your personal training and choose your individual set of programs which you could get what you need out of.

Joshua Harkness ’25

…you’re passionate concerning the pure world and wish to examine it and love spending time exterior.

Conrad Kortemeier ’26

…you wish to be surrounded and impressed by people who find themselves enthusiastic about area of interest topics, and by people who find themselves nonetheless determining what they’re doing.

Marina Schnell ’25

…you’ve got an open thoughts, take pleasure in small communities, and desire a well-rounded (nonetheless unconventional) training expertise. 

Seth Sears ’28

…you need freedom in your class construction.

Andie Piliouras ’26


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