Kim Holland explains CUNY study abroad program types and funding
Holland describes CUNY-sponsored programs as exchange, faculty-led, and affiliated. She explains how faculty-led and affiliated programs are financed through tuition and fees, while exchanges let students pay home-campus tuition and often rely on scholarships or Gilman funding for Pell-eligible students.
CUNY-sponsored programs are structured in three different ways.
As student exchange programs, as faculty-led programs, and as affiliated programs.
These three program types are based on their cost structure and on whether academic content is delivered by external institutions or by CUNY faculty who travel abroad with students.
Faculty-led programs are designed and taught by CUNY faculty in the summer and winter intersessions.
CUNY faculty led 25 programs in 16 countries last year on topics ranging from architecture in Spain to
Zen Meditation in Taiwan.
Affiliated programs are established when a CUNY college enters into an agreement with a third-party provider or foreign university.
These programs contribute to the breadth of CUNY's offerings.
Faculty-led and affiliated programs are financed with CUNY tuition, typically supplemented by a program fee that covers expenses that exceed the cost of tuition.
Exchange programs are based on partnerships between a CUNY college and a foreign university and allow participants on both sides to pay tuition only at their home institution while studying at the partner university.
In addition to processing eligible financial aid, several campuses issue scholarship awards to their students for study abroad, and some campuses subsidize the cost of specific programs.
Campuses also actively promote external funding opportunities, in particular, the Benjamin A.
Gilman Scholarship Program, which focuses its resources on Pell-eligible students for study abroad.