standards of Good practice workshop: focus on standard 2 (academic framework) and standard 3 (student learning and development) J. Kline Harrison (Wake Forest University) Wrestling with how to bring into line the best academic intentions with a meaningful education abroad experience? This workshop focuses on Student Learning, Development and the Academic Framework for Education Abroad and will help you identify resources and design programming to assist in this effort. Through simulations involving specific examples, participants will address critical issues often introduced by colleagues in higher education who are unfamiliar with the importance of tying these two areas together in education abroad. standards of Good practice workshop: focus on standard 4 (student preparation for the learning environment abroad and returning student support) and standard 5 (student selection and the code of conduct) Kevin Morrison (Elon University), Sue Jackson (Whitworth University) Is your office struggling with the best ways to prepare your students to get the most out of their education abroad experience? This workshop focuses on Student Learning, Development and the Academic Framework for Education Abroad and will help you identify resources and design programming to assist in this effort. Time will be devoted to the presentation and explanation of comprehensive judicial screening process. Participants will critically examine different preparation and returning support models and will develop strategies to improve upon them so that they might be useful in their specific context. New coNfereNce feaTure The Big Think A new feature of the Forum’s annual conference, The Big Think prompts participants to broaden their horizons by engaging in open and frank dialogue on a contemporary topic directly related to education abroad, but not strictly “in the field.” This year’s Big Think will be based on the book, Crazy Like Us: The Globalization of the American Psyche by Ethan Watters (New Press, 2010). Crazy Like Us speaks directly to an evolving challenge faced by professionals working with U.S. students: the increase in students studying abroad with diagnosed mental health issues. Crazy Like Us examines how various mental health conditions are diagnosed and treated differently across cultures, and proposes that the U.S. often imposes its conceptions of mental illness in (and on) other countries. Watters’ work has implications for understanding the context of mental illness abroad, especially when working collaboratively with resident staff when student issues arise. The Big Think is truly just about the thinking: no toolboxes, no policies, no implementation required. Involve yourself by reading the book in advance, and arrive at the conference ready and willing to contribute to a discussion intended to expand our minds as international educators. Dialogue on Crazy Like Us will be featured in two conference venues. A lunchtime discussion will take place in small groups, each with a facilitator; and a conference session will feature a panel of colleagues and experts that will address the issues and assumptions in the text, followed by participant discussion. Crazy Like Us: The Globalization of the American Psyche by Ethan Watters (New Press, 2010) is readily available through online vendors in paperback and e-book formats. 6