Study Abroad: A Parent's Guide : For Parents of College and University Students Contemplating a Study Abroad Experience

This is the first full-length book specifically geared to providing the information parents need and want to know about their children's study abroad experience. Filled with advice on how to select and apply to programs, arrange for financial aid and scholarships, and earn academic credit, Study Abroad: A Parent's Guide also provides practical guidance on dozens of topics including safety issues, budgeting and banking, making travel arrangements, communicating internationally, packing, and obtaining health insurance.

Study Abroad: A Parent's Guide advises students and their families at every step of the decision-making process, from first considering the option of studying abroad to choosing a program to the experience itself.

Since 1981, William W. Hoffa has been a full-time international educator based in Amherst, Massachusetts. Well known in the field of international education for his years as a leader within NAFSA: Association of International Educators, he has held positions with the Council on International Educational Exchange and Scandinavian Seminar, Inc., and is the author or editor of many essays, interviews, and reports on education abroad, including "The Student Guide to Study Abroad," for studyabroad.com and NAFSA's Guide to Education Abroad for Advisers and Administrators (1997, coedited with John Pearson).

Hoffa holds academic degrees from Michigan, Harvard, and Wisconsin. He has been a professor of English and American Studies at Vanderbilt University and Hamilton College, as well as a Senior Fulbright Lecturer at the University of Jyvaskyla, Finland (1974-75) and a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow at the University of New Mexico (1978-79). He now teaches in the Master's in International and Intercultural Management program at the School for International Training in Brattleboro, Vermont.

He is the father of two children: a daughter who studied abroad and a son who did not.