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Biola encourages faculty to take advantage of the summer term to lead academic study tours, engaging students in a learning experience away from their usual daily activities as well as away from Biola’s campus. There are policies and procedures to help to make unique aspects of study tours mesh as well as possible with the regular academic and financial systems of Biola.

Information about current study tours may be found in the “Short Term Programs” section of the Study Abroad Programs website.

Faculty led study tours must be academically sound and financially feasible for both the University and the student. The study tours policies document articulates a number of policies and practices that have developed over several decades of experience by multiple faculty and staff who have worked on the myriad of details that arise related to study tours. The current policies were developed by a joint committee of faculty and staff. View Study Tour Policies and Procedures (PDF).

Once a faculty member has reviewed the Policies related to Study Tours, there is an application, the submission of which will begin the review and approval process. The deadline date for application submission is September 9. The associate provost welcomes the opportunity to meet with the faculty member who wants to develop a study tour even before the application form is completed.