Our Mission

ISI Abroad’s mission is to guide students through their study abroad experience in ways that promote exploration and an embrace of new cultures and experiences; promoting a desire in students for life-long learning and encouraging essential skills in intercultural competencies. Our student-centered and community-facing programs give students ample opportunity for immersion and co-curricular activities that invite students to consider how their education complements their career ambitions. ISI Abroad and its Consortium partners are committed to:​

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Outstanding Academic Curriculum
The development of an outstanding and diverse academic curriculum with a core in the liberal arts and sciences with emphasis on:

• Instruction: ISI Abroad pursues academic excellence (both in the liberal arts and scientific disciplines) by selecting faculty on the basis of credentials, career records, professional profiles, teaching expertise, and acknowledged scholarly accomplishments.

• Innovation: ISI Abroad is dedicated to the development of academic and intercultural programs that embrace interdisciplinary approaches and incorporate creative and pioneering pedagogical methods. Innovative international-scope research and scholarship further invigorate curricular offerings.

• Transformation and Intercultural Competence: ISI Abroad seeks capitalizes on Italy’s outstanding cultural resources to enable a truly transformative student experience. To this purpose, it merges academic enterprise with a strong focus on global awareness to facilitate students’ progressive intercultural skills and knowledge.

Community Engagement
ISI Abroad is united in supporting and collaborating with the communities where ISI Abroad operates to provide students with unique and culturally immersive opportunities for community engagement and service learning.

​Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
ISI Abroad recognizes that an essential part of the study abroad experience is embracing cultural differences and being open to people, views, and practices that may be different from one’s own experiences. It and its members, therefore, commit to fostering and promoting a diverse and inclusive learning environment.

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Sustainability
ISI Abroad strives to be socially and environmentally responsible. Consortium member practices and academic offerings encourage the research and study of sustainable travel, consumption, and education.

Accessibility/Affordability
In keeping with its public status mission, ISI Abroad is committed to offering affordable and competitive rates, thus making this unique learning experience in Italy accessible to the largest cohort of students.

ISI Abroad meets the goals above through its interdisciplinary academic offerings and by actively creating opportunities for students to explore themselves and their new environment. ISI Abroad welcomes students of all backgrounds, seeing the diversity of thought and experience as some of the most powerful contributors to academic, personal, and professional development.