These are small gatherings where participants meet others who face similar challenges. The Faculty-Student Fellows Program and The College in Asia Summer Institute Program. The College in Asia Summer Institute Program sponsors summer institutes in Asia to provide assistance for liberal arts institutions intending to establish study abroad opportunities in Asia. During summer 2001, the institute director will be serving as a consultant on the home campuses of the 1998-2000 participant colleges. A second grant from The Henry Luce Foundation has supported projects promoting dialogue among undergraduate Asian Studies faculty.
Institutions join as full, associate, and affiliate members based upon a range of criteria.
College Missouri Southern State College Mount Holyoke College Muhlenberg College New College of the Univ. The meetings focused on topics such as curriculum design, faculty development, study abroad programs, and grants and resource development. At the conclusion of the conferences, the participants expressed a desire to meet again. In April 1993, representatives from sixty liberal arts colleges renewed the discussion and voted to create a permanent organization. The unique teaching mission of the undergraduate liberal arts institution poses special opportunities and challenges in the development of Asian Studies.