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.