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Travel Oversight

As part of the Drexel Global office, Global Safety & Operations (GSO) is charged with international travel oversight for the Drexel University campus. This includes:

  • Student education abroad travel
  • Student non-credit experience abroad travel 
  • Faculty and Staff international travel 
  • All high-risk travel
  • All other Drexel University related travel 

GSO is focused on streamlining processes to facilitate more efficient travel registration, review, and adjudication. Along with this, GSO provides many services including: 

  • Provide health, safety and security orientations for all types of student travel 
  • Provide training for faculty and staff leaders of student programs (ICA, NCEA, etc...) 
  • Conduct maintenance of faculty and staff leader guide for ICA and NCEA programs
  • Conduct intelligence monitoring and keeping abreast of all major and minor security issues, world-wide
  • Maintain On-Call emergency assistance coverage and personally assist with student, faculty, and staff crisis situations abroad 
  • Maintain best-practice based program for evaluating, assessing, and vetting all education abroad program providers and sites
  • Partner across campus to ensure that all international travel meets legal, risk-management, and other regulatory requirements 

Please contact the Director of Global Safety & Operations to discuss travel oversight at Drexel.