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Streamline and grow your global engagement initiatives with Terra Dotta.

Terra Dotta is the trusted leader in global engagement solutions for higher education. Over 700 universities and colleges use Terra Dotta’s global engagement platform to facilitate cross-cultural experiences for students, faculty and staff in more than 85 countries worldwide. The company’s solutions help institutions grow global engagement experiences for study abroad, study away, and international student and scholar services; on a platform built for personalization, automation, and reporting. Check out Terra Dotta’s latest e-books, a free resource intended to inform the field about all things international higher education. Fill out the form below to connect with Terra Dotta.

Meet the global engagement needs of today’s students.

Grow your programs with streamlined, automated processes.

Deliver measurable results to your institution’s leadership.

About Terra Dotta

As institutions adapt, digitize, and refine their global engagement strategies, Terra Dotta offers an accessible, centralized platform to help you make data-informed decisions that actively engage participants throughout their student journey. Terra Dotta’s modular, cloud-based solutions encompasses outgoing study abroad, incoming international student and scholar services (ISSS), and travel risk management, including their award-winning AlertTraveler® mobile application. Reach more students. Spend more time advising. Grow your programs.

INCOMING
Improve international student recruitment and retention, streamline document management, and increase diversity on your home campus.

OUTGOING
Expand global opportunities for your students with flexible recruitment, reporting, and risk management capabilities.

TRAVEL RISK
Ensure traveler safety and mitigate risk with country intelligence, neighborhood-level safety ratings, travel data, and alerts in one system.

STUDENT ENGAGEMENT
Personalize support for students throughout the student lifecycle, including pre-college, camps, volunteer opportunities, student clinics, and alumni engagement.

Learn more about Terra Dotta, their customers and the global engagement solutions provided in the resource center.

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Mark Beirn

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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.

Specialization Areas:

– Education Abroad
– International education leadership development
– Intercultural education and engagement
– International partnerships and linkages

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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.
 

Specialization Areas:

– Student services
– Education abroad programming
– Institutional partnerships
– Education and training