Are you planning to start a study abroad program for 2024? service learning, Spanish total immersion, educational trips?

If you are a faculty looking for a school in Costa Rica or Panama, ILISA offers you the following benefits for you and your students to visit our facilities:

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Give your best student the opportunity to learn Spanish abroad
Studying abroad is a wonderful experience from a personal and professional point of view. It’s a way to excel beyond hundreds of professionals that graduate every year and the perfect opportunity to learn a new language. That being said, we encourage faculty members all over the world to participate in these priceless programs.
Besides the language portion, there are several advantages that can be mentioned for studying abroad that you, as a teacher, don’t want your students to miss:

• The opportunity to travel.
• The chance to know another culture first-hand.
• Facilitation of developing skills and giving experiences that a classroom setting will never provide.
• The opportunity to make friends around the world.
• Self-discovery: Students learn about themselves in ways they never could.
• Expansion of their worldview and changing their perspective.
• The value of breaking out of your academic routine.
• Enhancement of the value of their degree.
• The chance to experience a different educational system.

Benefits of starting a study abroad program
Besides all the benefits we know that relate to study abroad experiences for students, we can mention very good reasons for you as a professor to start your program abroad.  For example:

• Professional growth and international experience that can help you to improve your resume by showing how responsible and innovative you are.
• Exposure to a new culture, even if you are from a Latin American country.
• Visiting beautiful tourist destinations.
• Get a break out of the academic routine.
• The development of new skills.
• Getting to know your students better before and during the trip, personally and academically.
• Improving your knowledge of your own institution and how different areas of education work—from the provost to marketing.
• Leading a project that is very notable for all the institutions.
• Learning a lot from your students and their interactions with host families and teachers from the host institution.

Advantages of Costa Rica and Panama for immersion programs
In order to have a successful program, it is important to consider external aspects of the program and not only academic ones. The most important aspects are:

• Safety and low criminality rates
• General political, social, and economical situations
• Hygiene conditions, potable water
• Access to hospitals and clinics
• Flight costs and frequency
• A variety of cultural and touristic activities that can be included in the package for students
• Distances for visiting tourist attractions
• Weather during the time of the program

Advantages of ILISA
Since our conception, ILISA’s approach has been to offer the highest quality service to our students by making things smooth and easy because setting up a study abroad program shouldn’t be a painful process; it must be a project full of enthusiasm and excitement.
ILISA will be your companion and your advisor in this process. Not only do we provide services, we take care of all the details from preparing proposals that meet your university requirements to designing a program to fit your budget. Our years of experience are reflected in our customized programs. The fact that we have long-lasting relationships with all the universities that we work with is just proof of this. We don’t believe in a one-program-fits-all format. Each organization has its own needs and we have always been able to exceed their expectations because of our flexibility and ability to adapt.
From the moment you arrive until the moment you leave with your students, you will receive 24/7 support from our staff—guaranteed.  You and your students deserve the best of the study abroad program and we will exceed your expectations.
Contact us and get references from current program coordinators and to know more about our benefits for groups hellen@ilisa.com

Some of the universities that visit ILISA every year are:

• Valdosta State University – GA
• University of South Florida – FL
• Weber State University – UT
• Butler University -IN
• Carroll Community College – IN
• Austin Community College- TX
• Saint Joseph Seminary – NY
• Wesleyan University – TX
• Morehouse College – GA
• Saint Petersburg College – FL
• University of Cincinnati – OH
• Northshore Community College – MA
• Ivy Tech Community College – IN
• Middlesex Community College- MA
• Henderson State University – AK
• Landmark College – VT