东航卡帕's New Engagement Policy 

东航卡帕 is proud to announce our new Engagement Policy, set to go into effect across all locations in Fall 2023, and slated to be included in the Forum on 教育 Abroad’s forthcoming resource: "Supporting Today's 教育 Abroad Students." 

Though this might seem like just another policy, it seeks to re-frame what has traditionally been a focus purely on attendance. As we see it, attendance is one part of the greater goal: student engagement. So though attendance matters—we know our partner institutions expect it, and visa authorities require it—this new policy contextualizes it in a broader emphasis on student engagement in the classroom, and in our many field-based course components outside the classroom. By focusing on learning and engagement, we aim to ‘flip the script’ on attendance by treating 学生 like the self-motivated adults they are. This policy avoids a punitive approach to attendance while focusing on academic and overall student success. 

而雄心勃勃的, the policy has been piloted in different versions over the past year, and we are confident that this final version takes the best of what worked. It was developed with feedback from our onsite Academic Directors, 学生, 和老师, and has been vetted by our Schools of Record and the CAPA咨询委员会.  

除了, we recognize that if we are grading 学生 on engagement and not simply ‘behinds in seats,’ we need to be sure that our faculty are well-trained on best pedagogical practices in student engagement. 在秋季发布之前, we will be conducting faculty and onsite academic staff training to equip our faculty and 学生 for success within this new policy paradigm. Our Global 教师 顾问y Council also named student engagement as their number one request for training, so this is coming directly from our onsite faculty, 太. 

We are proud of this new policy, and happy to share it with the field. We hope that it can contribute to dialogue around student engagement and success in education abroad, and welcome any opportunities to discuss it further. Please feel free to email Dr. 安德里亚·库斯托迪，院长 & Vice President of Academic and Strategic Initiatives (acustodi@ceacapa.com)或博士. Stina Dufour, Dean of Global Programs and Academic Administration (sdufour@ceacapa.com).