Internationalize your campus and bring valuable linguistic and cultural resources to your students through the IES Abroad International Student Assistantship Program.
This program connects U.S. universities with highly-qualified international students who are eager to obtain teaching experience, share their native culture, act as study abroad resources, and study in the United States.
How the Program Works
The IES Abroad Student Assistantship Program is designed to connect you with a pool of highly-qualified undergraduates and graduate students from IES Abroad’s overseas partner institutions.
You select the best candidate for the position at your university. IES Abroad contacts the student with your offer.
If the candidate accepts your offer, the student will work for one academic year in your institution. In return, you determine the award package that your institution will provide. Award packages include all or a combination of the following: tuition waiver, room, board, insurance, small stipend.
Profiles of Possible Positions for Student Assistants
The responsibilities of Student Assistants are determined by your institution. Below are a few of the most common positions assigned to Student Assistants.
Language Department Assistant
Department Assistants may work in an administrative capacity, assist students with conversational aspects of the language in foreign language laboratories, or organize cultural events.
Teaching Assistant (TA)
Used at the undergraduate and graduate level, TAs may assist professors with lesson preparations, instruction in the classroom, or with corrections of student papers and tests. Occasionally, the TA may team teach and offer the conversation component of a language course.
Foreign Language Resident Hall Assistant
Resident Assistants usually live in language residence halls or houses and are responsible for promoting the everyday use of their native language.
IES Abroad Partner Institutions & Past U.S. Participants
Bucknell University
Claremont McKenna College
DePauw University
Franklin and Marshall College
Grinnell College
Hope College
Illinois Wesleyan University
Occidental College
Pomona College
Scripps College
Washington and Lee University
Whitman College
William Jewell College
Wofford College
Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
Universidad de Chile
Institut Catholique de Paris
Université de Paris IV - Sorbonne
Université de Nantes
Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore (Milan)
Università degli Studi di Siena
Università per Strainieri di Siena
Universidad de Buenos Aires
Universidad de San Francisco de Quito
Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador
Albert-Ludwigs Universität Freiburg
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Pädagogische Hochschule Freiburg
Universidad Complutense de Madrid
Universidad de Granada
Universidad de Salamanca
Bucknell University
Claremont McKenna College
DePauw University
Franklin and Marshall College
Grinnell College
Hope College
Illinois Wesleyan University
Occidental College
Pomona College
Scripps College
Washington and Lee University
Whitman College
William Jewell College
Wofford College
Universidad de Buenos Aires
Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
Universidad de Chile
Universidad de San Francisco de Quito
Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador
Institut Catholique de Paris
Université de Paris IV - Sorbonne
Université de Nantes
Albert-Ludwigs Universität Freiburg
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Pädagogische Hochschule Freiburg
Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore (Milan)
Università degli Studi di Siena
Università per Strainieri di Siena
Universidad Complutense de Madrid
Universidad de Granada
Universidad de Salamanca
Interested in Our Student Assistantship Program?
Internationalize your campus and bring valuable linguistic and cultural resources to your students through the IES Abroad International Student Assistantship Program!