
International Student Assistantship Program
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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.
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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
Argentina
- Universidad de Buenos Aires
Chile
- Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
- Universidad de Chile
Ecuador
- Universidad de San Francisco de Quito
- Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador
France
- Institut Catholique de Paris
- Université de Paris IV - Sorbonne
- Université de Nantes
Germany
- Albert-Ludwigs Universität Freiburg
- Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
- Pädagogische Hochschule Freiburg
Italy
- Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore (Milan)
- Università degli Studi di Siena
- Università per Strainieri di Siena
Spain
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