{"id":26742,"date":"2019-11-07T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-11-07T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.tarleton.edu\/news\/tarleton-professor-named-to-nafsa-sub-committee\/"},"modified":"2025-10-07T09:47:50","modified_gmt":"2025-10-07T14:47:50","slug":"tarleton-professor-named-to-nafsa-sub-committee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/tarleton-professor-named-to-nafsa-sub-committee\/","title":{"rendered":"Tarleton professor named to NAFSA sub-committee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE<\/p>\n<p>Thursday, November 7, 2019<\/p>\n<p>STEPHENVILLE, Texas &mdash;&nbsp;Dr. Marilyn Robitaille, director of Study Abroad and Global Exchange at Tarleton State University, has been selected to serve on a national sub-committee of NAFSA: Association of International Educators.<\/p>\n<p>She will serve as a member of the&nbsp;Financing Education Abroad&nbsp;sub-committee, part of the&nbsp;Education Abroad Knowledge Community&nbsp;division of the organization, formerly known as National Association of Foreign Student Advisors.<\/p>\n<p>Her term begins in January.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;This appointment comes at an opportune time with some of the new initiatives we&rsquo;re working on to make study abroad more affordable for our students,&rdquo; Robitaille said. &ldquo;I&rsquo;ll have access to resources and to networking I haven&rsquo;t had before.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this semester Tarleton&rsquo;s Academic Affairs announced the expansion of the Center for Transformative Learning to include Study Abroad and Global Exchange.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Although study abroad has always been part of Tarleton&rsquo;s applied learning experiences,&rdquo; she said, &ldquo;this new structure now gives us better ways to partner transformative learning opportunities with new study abroad initiatives. Everything I learn from serving on the NAFSA sub-committee will enhance those initiatives.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>With more than 10,000 members at 3,500 institutions worldwide, in more than 150 countries, NAFSA is the world&rsquo;s largest association dedicated to international education and exchange.<\/p>\n<p>To visit Tarleton&rsquo;s Office of Study Abroad and Global Exchange, visit&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/studyabroad\">www.tarleton.edu\/studyabroad<\/a>, go to Room 131 in the Dick Smith Library, or call 254-968-9559.<\/p>\n<p>Tarleton, founding member of The Texas A&amp;M University System, provides a student-focused, value-driven education marked by academic innovation and a dedication to transform today&rsquo;s scholars into tomorrow&rsquo;s leaders. It offers degree programs to more than 13,000 students at Stephenville, Fort Worth, Waco, Midlothian, RELLIS Academic Alliance in Bryan, and online, emphasizing real-world learning experiences that address societal needs while maintaining its core values of tradition, integrity, civility, excellence, leadership and service.<\/p>\n<p>Contact: Phil Riddle, News and Information Specialist<br \/>817-484-4415<br \/><a href=\"mailto:priddle@tarleton.edu\">priddle@tarleton.edu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Marilyn Robitaille, director of Study Abroad and Global Exchange at Tarleton State University, has been selected to serve on a national sub-committee of NAFSA: Association of International Educators.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":26743,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"advgb_blocks_editor_width":"","advgb_blocks_columns_visual_guide":"","wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[423,425],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academics-research","category-campus-community"],"acf":{"image":null},"author_meta":{"display_name":"keegan","author_link":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/author\/keegan-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2\/"},"featured_img":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/65\/2021\/11\/image-577-300x200.jpg","coauthors":[],"tax_additional":{"categories":{"linked":["<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/category\/academics-research\/\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Academics &amp; Research<\/a>","<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/category\/campus-community\/\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Campus &amp; Community<\/a>"],"unlinked":["<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Academics &amp; Research<\/span>","<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Campus &amp; Community<\/span>"]}},"comment_count":0,"relative_dates":{"created":"Posted 6 years ago","modified":"Updated 6 months ago"},"absolute_dates":{"created":"Posted on November 7, 2019","modified":"Updated on October 7, 2025"},"absolute_dates_time":{"created":"Posted on November 7, 2019 12:00 am","modified":"Updated on October 7, 2025 9:47 am"},"featured_img_caption":"Smiling woman in front of a brick wall.","series_order":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26742","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26742"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26742\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54256,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26742\/revisions\/54256"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}