South Africa

The Department of Administration, Leadership, and Technology, in conjunction with the University of Pretoria in South Africa, offers an intensive 6-point summer study abroad program that focuses on education reforms that have been implemented following major social reforms in South Africa. The course is relevant for people with broad interests in education reform issues, including educational administrators, teachers, researchers, policy analysts, and anyone interested in learning about other cultures and other educational systems.

India

The Higher and Postsecondary Education program is offering an intensive 3-credit study trip to India in January 2010 that is designed to provide graduate students with an opportunity to examine India's higher education system and to discover and analyze similarities and differences in comparison to higher education in the United States. The course will include class sessions at NYU as well as a 12-day study trip to Delhi, Agra, and Mumbai that will provide an in-depth case study of India's higher education system. Through visits to both public and private institutions, students will engage with faculty, administrators, and students. The course is relevant for higher education administrators, researchers, policy analysts, and anyone interested in learning about other higher education systems and cultures. Topics will include institutional climate, curricular opportunities, college admissions requirements, distribution of students by class and ethnicity, as well as the student services offered.

Israel

The study trip to Israel is designed to provide graduate students with an opportunity to examine Israel's higher education system and to discover and analyze similarities and differences in comparison to higher education in the United States.  Through visits to universities and public and private colleges, students engage in discussions with rectors, faculty members, deans of students and their staffs and students themselves.  Special lectures with sociologists and national officials help students understand the goals and future aspirations of Israeli higher education and how higher education meets the social, political and cultural needs of society.

In addition to class sessions at NYU, students participate in a ten day field trip to Israel that will provide an in-depth case study of its higher education system.  This  includes lectures from scholars and visits to Israeli colleges and universities to meet with faculty, administrators and students. Additional sessions are held with leaders of the national Council for Higher Education.  Topics include curricular opportunities, college admissions requirements, distribution of students by class and ethnicity, college climate, and the student services offered.