ABSTRACT
The purpose of this chapter is fourfold. The first is to offer a brief overview of and reflection on Pacific’s cross-cultural program in sufficient detail to enable readers unfamiliar with its main features to understand how they developed and were integrated into a specific curriculum. The second purpose is to discuss how the larger context of education abroad has changed over the past quarter century. The third purpose is to provide an overview of the current state of orientation programming across a broad spectrum of US academic institutional types, specifically examining the extent to which the kinds of linkages suggested in the original article have been implemented and where they have not. The basic framework of Pacific’s orientation/reentry courses has long been quite simple. The most common education abroad types today include reciprocal student exchanges, consortia, provider, and faculty-directed programs. Offering face-to-face, direct instruction may be preferable to employing a wholly virtual curriculum.
