Secondary Research
The rst article covered was “How Study Abroad Shapes Global Careers, Evidence From the United
States,” by Emily Mohajeri Norris and Joan Gillespie. The article goes on to talk about how the majority
of students that participated in study abroad programs viewed the experience as something that would
help them in their careers. The article then goes on to compare past generations with more current
generations of students that study abroad. Students in the 90s were two timesmore likely to get jobs
overseas, three times more likely to work for a multinational organization, twice as likely to work in the
private industry with international components and ten times more likely to participate in internships
abroad versus students in the /ies and sixties. Additionally the alumni that had completed a study
abroad program more often spoke in a di0erent language in the workplace and acquired skill sets that
in2uenced future career paths versus students that had not studied abroad. Overall this article covers
the e0ects that studying abroad has on a student’s career.
The second article, “Large -scale Assessment of Student A7tudes a/er a Short-Term Study Abroad
Program,” by Lisa Chie0o and Lesa Gri9ths covers basically what the titles states, the a7tudes of
students a/er short term study abroad programs. It shows how students a7tudes have changed from
long term study abroad programs to now a short term study abroad program. They go on to compare
the global awareness of students that are involved in a short term study abroad program to a student’s
that take a traditional classroom course. They did this by focusing on 4 di0erent categories; intercultural
