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Program Leader Development & Events

Welcome to the Program Leader Development and Events page.  We work to provide training opportunities and informational sessions to prospective and active Program Leaders.  Program Leaders are PSU faculty and staff who are interested in or who have developed an International Faculty-Led Program (IFLP).  Our training and informational sessions cover various topics essential to program planning and preparedness.

Program Planning Essentials

These sessions are also great opportunities for Department Chairs and Deans interested in learning more about the process of International Faculty-Led Program planning as well!

If you have a topic you’d like us to cover not listed above, please email facultyled@pdx.edu with your ideas!

Check back soon as we will have several events in April as we lead up to our May 15th, 2025 priority deadline for 2026 program proposals.

Basics of Submitting a Proposal

  • Audience: Prospective Program Leaders, Deans, Department Chairs
  • Description: This session will present available online resources for prospective program leaders, outline the requirements of a proposal, and review important first steps in the proposal process.
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Granting Departmental Approval

  • Audience: Deans and Department Chairs
  • Description: This session will provide an overview of the department approval process, share who should be granting approval - what, who, when, and present special circumstances that should be considered holistically when approving for the department (multiple programs, conflicts of interest, etc.)
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Understanding and Setting Your Program Budget

  • Audience: Prospective Program Leaders, Deans, Department Chairs
  • Description: This session will provide an overview of the structure of each program budget, review negotiables and non-negotiables, roles and responsibilities when setting a budget, and impacts on student pricing, registration, billing procedures, etc.
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Selecting A Service Provider

  • Audience: Prospective Program Leaders, Deans, Department Chairs
  • Description: This session will review PSU’s requirement for working with service providers, types of service providers, considerations when selecting a service provider, the Request for a Proposal (RFP), and the review and selection of RFP’s.
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Review of Program Leader Roles and Responsibilities

  • Audience: Departing Program Leaders
  • Description: This session will review with departing Program Leaders their roles and responsibilities.  Program Leaders are more than instructors when leading an International Faculty-Led Program (IFLP). Discussion will review elements of the program leader agreement signed by each faculty member, explore how each impacts on-the-ground support of students, and allow for questions and answers.
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Essentials of Purchases, Salaries, and Travel

  • Audience: Departing Program Leaders
  • Discussion: This session will review how to make authorized purchases such as airfare or approved travel funds, the importance of documenting your expenses, as well as the post program reconciliation process.  Additionally, we will review when and how salaries are distributed - this includes wage agreements, overrides, and in-load agreements.  Lastly, we will review the Travel Authorization and Reimbursement process. 
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Emergency Support and Risk Management

  • Audience: Departing Program Leaders
  • Discussion: This session will review PSU Education Abroad’s emergency support, crisis management, and risk mitigation strategies with departing program leaders and outline their roles and responsibilities.
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