-KEY DATES-

• July 25: Marketing intern applications due
  
• August 1: Photo contest starts
  
• August 29: Photo contest ends

September – October: Eleanor visits partner university campuses & meets with our Faculty Advisory Council, pictured below

Give Eleanor a text, Tweet or Facebook message, as she's excited to see you on campus

- FACTS -

• 506 students studied with us this winter and summer, which means over 1,600 students in the past five years.
• Our North Queensland, Australia program had the highest enrollment of all programs this summer.

- PROGRAM PICS-

Rainforest gals. The sixteen female University of Florida students and their professors flash big smiles at Ferntree Rainforest Lodge in Cape Tribulation.

A kayaking we will go. Maggie Duggan from University at Buffalo paddles downstream in Fiji with the SUNY-Brockport program.

Crazy for Carnarvon. Students from University of Hawai'i, University of Montana and Wake Forest finished their program at Carnarvon Gorge in the Outback.

Basking in success. After a sweaty hike to Balding Bay on Magnetic Island, Ohio State, Oregon State and University of Washington students relax in the sun and surf.

Student Bloggers Provided Program Insight

Did you know that University of Florida students flew on the inaugural Qantas flight from Dallas/Ft. Worth to Brisbane? Or that, according to Penn State students, Fergburger makes the best hamburgers? And, have you heard our South Queensland students saw countless sea turtles off Lady Elliot Island?

Thanks to our 2011 student bloggers, everyone in the AUIP community gained an inside look at program happenings from world-class snorkeling to muddy hikes and everything else in between.

Be sure to read all the blog entries here by Alyssa Lai in North Queensland, Adrienne Wilson in South Queensland and Alyse Horn, pictured right, in New Zealand for a full scoop on their program adventures.

AUIP Seeks Marketing Interns

What garners you strong internship experience, independent study credit, networking opportunities, a stipend, freebies and a preference for South Pacific in-country positions?

That would be the AUIP Marketing Internship, of course!

2011 Photo Contest Starting

We know you took thousands of photos on your study abroad program and have been showing them off to friends and family since your return. All your photos are most likely phenomenal, but we need you to pull out your best photo to submit in the 2011 AUIP Photo Contest: Far Beyond the Classroom.

Open to all AUIP alumni who have studied abroad on an AUIP program, the contest accepts photos starting August 1 and continuing until August 29, 2011. Alumni who submitted a photo last year are once again eligible to submit a photo this year. Full submission details are available here.

Prizes will go to first, second and third places. Last year, Taylor Salstrand from Clemson University won second place with her photo Fijian Sunrise pictured right……>read more

New University Partners

Each year AUIP welcomes new universities to our consortium model. Many universities opt to offer one of our programs the first year and then add additional destinations through the years.

We are pleased to announce Ohio State joined the consortium for the North Queensland program this year. The Buckeyes sent a strong contingent of 29 students accompanied by Dr. Eric Toman and his graduate assistant Jennifer Sherry.

For the 2011-12 academic year, we look forward to having San Diego State University and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign join us, as well as multiple other potential partners……>read more

Alumni News

Amanda Wilson from Virginia Tech studied on the North Queensland program in 2009 and the Antarctica program in 2010. With ample in-country experience and a strong academic background, Amanda was selected as the teaching assistant for the Hokies 2011 North Queensland program and will be fulfilling the same role in Antarctica this December. She says, “When I applied to my first program, I would have never guessed that AUIP would play such an integral role in my life and in shaping who I am. It’s so rewarding to reflect on where life’s adventures have led me.”

We want to highlight more alumni who are doing amazing things. Please send us an email (info@auip.com) with a blurb about what's happening in your life with a new degree, career or life event so we can share it with others.

AUIP Blog Celebrates One-Year Anniversary

Back in May, we proudly announced the one-year anniversary of our blog and highlighted its different categories, such as Field Notes with program anecdotes and What Next with alumni resources.

Also, be our fan on Facebook, follow us on Twitter and subscribe to our blog to stay connected with AUIP, friends and news……>read more