Clinical Professor in Honors, Kim Andersen to attend National Collegiate Honors Council Conference (NCHC) in Atlanta

Clinical Professor in Honors, Kim Andersen, will be attending the National Collegiate Honors Council Conference (NCHC) in Atlanta, November 8-12, 2017 where he together with Christine Oakley, Director, Global Learning, Clinical Associate Professor, Sociology, Washington State University, will give their presentation: “Trends in Study Abroad: Data and Perspectives” to a national and international audience of educators. They will present data describing how Washington State University has seen a remarkable proliferation of short term faculty-led experiences from just a handful offered 10 years ago to close to 40 offered in the past academic year. A number of recent studies extoll the educational benefits of short-term study abroad experiences. Professor Andersen has offered faculty-led trips during almost all summers since 2000 to either Scandinavia (visiting Norway, Denmark and Sweden – he is a Danish native) or to various locations in Spain, a country with which he is very familiar. There are pictures and texts describing his many trips on his website: http://public.wsu.edu/~kimander/ under the link ‘Study Tours.’ He has planned a faculty-led trip for this coming summer 2018 to England on the theme “Modern and Roman England.” Students will be spending a week at the University of Liverpool with lectures and excursions to museums and Roman ruins, after which the group will stay in the beautiful town of Shrewsbury and finally to London to see not least the treasures of The British Museum. The course is open to Honors students (and Honors alumni) as well as to WSU non-Honors students. Professor Andersen will also be pursuing Roman Britain in his spring semester 2018 Honors course: Migration and Conquest: From Anglo-Saxons to Vikings. His scouting trip to Liverpool and England in May 2017 was supported by The Buckley Honors College Endowment for Faculty Excellence.