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A Student and Faculty Guide to Risk Management While Studying Abroad

Study Aborad Association

As the current COVID-19 pandemic has swept across the globe, thousands of students and faculty have been forced to rapidly abandon their study abroad programs to return to the safety of home. Assessing Risk Factors of Study Abroad.

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Alumni Spotlight: Zach’s Business Internship in London

AIFS Abroad

Being from NY and going to college in LA, I knew that I would most likely spend summers interning in either of those two cities. Also, I wanted to go to London because it was not a location available to me for study abroad through my university, so a word of advice is to pick somewhere that you wouldn’t be able to go through your school.

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Understanding Executing Strengths

AIFS Abroad

Let’s say you’re interning at a translation service in Madrid and have volunteered to translate some documents. You quickly learn that these documents not only need to be translated, but are out of order and need to be filed correctly. Every AIFS Abroad intern is guaranteed an internship placement.

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High-Outcome Internships in Higher Ed: Bridge the Workforce Gap and Enhance Student Success: Changing Higher Education Podcast 161 with Host Dr. Drumm McNaughton and Guest Daniel Nivern

The Change Leader, Inc.

In this podcast, Dr. Drumm McNaughton discusses the characteristics of a well-set-up intern program and how they can benefit students and higher ed with Daniel Nivern of Virtual Internships. This ed-tech company runs online internship programs across 18 career fields. Drumm McNaughton 15:13 Absolutely.

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Understanding Relationship Building Strengths

AIFS Abroad

An example of this type of relationship building strength being put to use would be if, say, you’re interning at a law firm, and you need to stay late to look over documents with another intern. Every AIFS Abroad intern is guaranteed an internship placement.