Commercial Property : Ies Study Abroad

Friday 23 November 2012

Ies Study Abroad

Mary M. Dwyer, PH.D., is president and CEO of IES Abroad. Since joining IES Abroad in 1996, Dr. Dwyer has led several major initiatives for IES Abroad including:IES Abroad MAP© (Model Assessment Practice), the first widely accepted tool to set academic standards for designing and evaluating study abroad programs, developed in 1997 by an IES Abroad-convened national task force;IES Abroad Intercultural Competency (ICC) Initiative, an effort to increase planned program experiences designed to foster interpersonal skills growth and equip students to communicate and function effectively across multiple cultures;A third initiative now underway, Maximizing Opportunity and Measuring Growth in Student Learning and Development in Study Abroad, will set the standard as a comprehensive assessment tool for measuring the impact of study abroad on U.S. students’ global learning and intercultural competence.