ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the Forum’s Standards of Good Practice include categories such as student learning and development, academic framework, and ethics, which consider some of the issues. As university internationalization efforts in the United States (US) continue to grow, many institutions of higher education are professionalizing their study abroad offices and streamlining processes to help more undergraduate students visit other countries as a part of their education. Study abroad is fraught with potential ethical issues, particularly related to income and power inequality. Core social work values should be an important consideration in planning a study abroad program. The concept of cultural competence formed the foundation for a more nuanced approach to culture and difference, which has been coined "cultural humility". One important and necessary way of understanding the context for social work programs abroad is to explore the situatedness of students from the US by increasing the students’ understanding of the impact of US policies abroad.
