Paul Melendez
-University of Arizona
"Students were overwhelmed with the quality of services and caring professionalism demonstrated by staff. Parents often commented on how the 'trust' that CEA invoked finalized their decision to allow their son/daughter to travel abroad."
Sharon Nagy
-DePaul University
"Not only do CEA staff, both in the U.S. and abroad, quickly respond to questions and requests for information, they often suggest creative new directions for our programming."
Bryant Creel
-University of Tennessee - Knoxville
"In every way CEA has been completely helpful in providing flyers and coming to Programs Abroad Fairs, and I have always had the fullest cooperation from the CEA staff on particulars relating to my program organization."
Flexible and Customizable
CEA has designed a number of program options that can be easily customized to meet diverse program needs. Custom programs can either be built on existing CEA programs, thus allowing use of CEA infrastructure, or can be built from scratch allowing ultimate flexibility within CEA’s destinations.
Below are a few program examples which we have designed with partner universities in the past:
DePaul University
DePaul students studying on a custom program in Madrid take Spanish language coursework at one of CEA’s partner institutions in addition to coursework taught by an accompanying DePaul faculty member. CEA secures facilities for courses taught by the DePaul faculty and also provides office space. Students participate in standard CEA excursions and immersion activities offered in Madrid, stay in shared homestays with a maximum of two students per family and receive all of CEA’s onsite support and services. Students receive credit from both CEA’s partner institution and DePaul University.
Students on a DePaul program in London choose all of their coursework from existing courses at one of two CEA partner institutions. They are part of regular CEA excursions and immersion activities, stay in CEA housing and receive all of CEA’s onsite services. Students receive a transcript from the hosting partner institution.
University of Arizona
Based on a custom program request for a leadership development program run at the University of Arizona, CEA has created a specialized course titled “Politics & Leadership in the Classical World” to be taught by CEA faculty at the CEA GlobalCampus in Rome, Italy. Students on the program are accommodated in CEA housing and participate in a number of excursions integrated with the coursework. The transcript for this course is issued by the University of New Haven.
University of Tennessee - Knoxville
For the past three years, students from the University of Tennessee – Knoxville (UTK) have participated in a CEA custom program in Alicante, Spain, designed in conjunction with a faculty member from the UTK Spanish Language Department. CEA has been assisting the faculty by securing facilities for teaching courses and by providing all logistical support services onsite.
Students are accommodated in homestays while a furnished apartment is made available for the faculty. Students receive a customized orientation and participate in regularly scheduled excursions and social immersion activities with other CEA students. Credit for participation in the program is issued by UTK.
University of South Carolina
On a program run in Liberia, Costa Rica, University of South Carolina (USC) students take coursework in Spanish Language and Latin American Studies designed and taught by CEA. In addition to academic support, CEA provides all logistics for the program; from securing student and faculty housing to designing excursion and social programming that extends the program’s academic objectives outside of the classroom to providing a resident staff onsite in Liberia. Students receive both USC and University of New Haven credit.
*Through the CEA GlobalCampus Network, it is now also possible to open US faculty led and taught coursework to all CEA students. Inquire with your Regional Consultant for further details.
CEA currently partners with the following universities on design and delivery of custom programs:
- DePaul University
- Kapi'olani Community College
- Ohio Dominican University
- Tulane University
- University of Arizona
- University of South Carolina
- University of Tennessee – Knoxville
