Not for kids like me : how the Gilman Program is changing study abroad / Mary Thompson-Jones.

Format:

Book

Manuscript

Microformat

Thesis/Dissertation

Author/Creator:

Thompson-Jones, Mary.

Contributor:

Armacost, Mary-Linda, advisor.

University of Pennsylvania.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Penn dissertations--Higher education management.

Higher education management--Penn dissertations.

Penn dissertations--Education.

Education--Penn dissertations.

Local Subjects:

Penn dissertations--Higher education management.

Higher education management--Penn dissertations.

Penn dissertations--Education.

Education--Penn dissertations.

Physical Description:

vii, 196 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm

Production:

2012.

Summary:

The Benjamin Gilman International Scholarship Program, founded in 2000 as a means to fund study abroad for low-income students, has become the largest federally funded scholarship program for study abroad at the undergraduate level, with more than 2,300 recipients in academic year (AY) 2010-2011. Interviews with former Congressman Benjamin Gilman, and with the leadership of the Institute of International Education (IIE), which administers the program, provided insight into how the enabling legislation came to be drafted and passed in only four weeks. Interviews with 43 students who traveled on the program provided insight into how the program made travel, often to non-Western destinations, possible for low-income students, students of color, first-generation immigrant students, and community college students. The conceptual framework for the interview protocol was based on the phases of travel described in Joseph Campbell's The Hero with a Thousand Faces (1949). The findings demonstrate that the program has fulfilled its mandate. The quality of students' experiences while overseas show that the program has opened the doors for intensive, meaningful study abroad for large numbers of students who otherwise would not have traveled. The demographics of the population served by the Gilman Program, when contrasted with the larger study-abroad population, suggests that, little by little, the program is changing the face of study abroad.

Notes:

Adviser: Mary-Linda Armacost.

Thesis (Ph.D. in Education) -- University of Pennsylvania, 2012.

Includes bibliographical references.

Local Notes:

University Microfilms order no.: 3530066.

OCLC:

821262899