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CEA CAPA Education Abroad offers high-impact study and internship abroad experiences that inspire and challenge students to explore complex cultural and social landscapes across 22 destinations in 13 countries. Our focus is academic quality and high-impact practices that prepare students personally and professionally to excel tomorrow. We consider student wellbeing the foundation of a successful study abroad experience, and CEA CAPA is committed to increasing equitable access to education abroad while providing students a framework to explore and challenge their identities—both through diverse global communities as well as the students we bring together.

Leading Education Abroad Provider

CEA Study Abroad and CAPA: The Global Education Network have come together In a commitment to academic excellence, integrity, and innovation in learning abroad.

Meaningful Experiences

We inspire and challenge students to explore complex cultural and social landscapes.

Better Together

As one organization, we are better preparing students to live, work, and thrive in a globally interdependent and diverse world.

About CEA CAPA Education Abroad

At CEA CAPA, our focus is academic quality and high-impact practices that prepare students personally and professionally to excel tomorrow.

With expert faculty and staff led by Provost Dr. Martha Johnson, CEA CAPA holds programming to the same high-quality standards that your institution expects at your home campus.

CEA CAPA is committed to increasing equitable access to education abroad while providing students a framework to explore and challenge their identities – both through diverse global communities as well as the students we bring together.

We consider student wellbeing the foundation of a successful study abroad experience. Our expert staff and cutting-edge technology prepare and support your student should an issue arise.

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Mark Beirn

AFFILIATE

An experienced global researcher and administrator, Mark Beirn brings a critical approach to risk management, factoring structural racism and identity-based violence into his rubric for supporting equitable global mobility.

Specialization Areas:

– Global Risk Management
– Education Abroad
– Diversity, Equity, Inclusion in International Education
– Health and Safety
– Curriculum Development

 

Stephen Appiah-Padi​

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Stephen Appiah-Padi is an international educator with several years of teaching and administrative experience in both 4 and 2-year HEIs. An experienced global education practitioner-scholar, with a demonstrated history of success in the field.

Dr. Appiah-Padi has a Ph.D. from the University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada in Educational Policy & Administration with a specialization in International/Intercultural Education.

At Northwestern College, he provided oversight in the administration of education abroad and international student services. In Lansing, Michigan, he first oversaw diversity and intercultural education at Lansing Community College, and later created the Center for International and Intercultural Education (CIIE) which merged intercultural engagement and international education programs of the institution, and he became its first director. Additionally, Dr. Appiah-Padi taught a course, “Diversity in the American Workplace”, to undergraduate management students of the College. In his current position, he provides leadership and vision in advancing strategic internationalization initiatives, including international partnerships and study abroad programs at Bucknell University.

Dr Appiah-Padi has created and facilitated several workshops for faculty and staff development in higher education and in business organizations. He has presented at several national and international conferences. In NAFSA, among several volunteer leadership positions, he has served as Dean of the Fundamentals of Intercultural Communication Workshop, the Leadership Development Committee member, Chair of the Africa Special Interest Group, and a Fellow of the Global Fellowship Program for mentoring emerging leaders of internationalization in African HEIs. He currently serves as a member of the NAFSA Board of Directors.

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Rosa Almoguera

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Dr. Rosa Almoguera has worked as an international educator for over twenty years. She was trained as a Hispanic Philologist at the Universidad Complutense, in Madrid, and did her M.A. at the University of Pennsylvania. Her Ph.D., from Universidad Complutense included a field study and edition of written balladry “Romancero”. During many years Rosa combined teaching and her role as a senior administrator at the Fundación Ortega-Marañón in Toledo, Spain. At the Foundation, Rosa directed and, in many cases created, programs for the University of Minnesota, Notre Dame, Princeton, Ohio State, Arcadia, and the University of Chicago. She has also been a visiting professor at the University of Minnesota, University of Portland, and Interamericana de Puerto Rico.

Beginning in 2016, Rosa works as an international education consultant for both public and private European and US higher education institutions. Rosa has been successful in developing new partnerships and programs, as well as helping improve already existing ones.

Rosa is a member of Forum and NAFSA and has presented with higher education professionals on innovative academic and research programming, STEM in study abroad and Nationalism in Europe. Rosa is currently completing the final Professional Certification from the Forum on Education Abroad.