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Via Celebrates International Education Week 2022
From a Virtual Tour of Germany to Making Gnocchi, Via Observes IEW Like many of our colleagues in the International Education field, Via will be celebrating International Education Week (IEW) 2022 with a wide range of events and activities from November 14-18. IEW...
College of Charleston Feels Part of the Via Team
“We feel like we’re part of a team,” says Director Melissa Ochal. Pre-pandemic, the Center for International Education at the College of Charleston was sending about a thousand students on global experiences while using a free software system. Five years ago, it...
Application Fees Eliminated at Concordia University Wisconsin with Via
Via’s Affordability Allows Concordia to Eliminate Application Fees Concordia University Wisconsin’s Maggie Leimkuehler had a demo with Via during the 2018 NAFSA Regional Conference in Schaumburg, Illinois. “It definitely looked appealing,” recalls Maggie, now...
Ethical Sales & Marketing for Study Abroad: Part III
Your Study Abroad Office is a Brand. From the moment a student steps on campus, sports teams, student groups, and academic opportunities vy for their attention. What does it look like for a study abroad office to “cut through the noise” and build a case for study...
Ethical Sales & Marketing for Study Abroad: Part II
In Part I of the mini-series on Ethical Sales & Marketing for Study Abroad, I shared about how selling for a professional sports team helped me better advise students to study abroad. I also made a pitch for us to ditch the stigma surrounding sales in...
Ethical Sales and Marketing in Study Abroad Mini-Series: Part I
I often hear international educators speak vaguely about “increased outreach” yet avoid the very thing to help achieve that goal: sales. Sales is such a loaded word. The term is associated with connotations such as “sleazy”, “pressure”, and “crooked.” The reality is,...
I was wrong about my students
If you work in higher education, you’ve probably heard (or repeated) the following in a lunch or conference session with colleagues. I know I have. “Students don’t read anything!” When I was an education abroad advisor, it seemed like most of my students never looked...