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Dr. Andrew Law serves as the Chief Executive Officer for Arcadia Abroad and Chief Academic Officer for The College of Global Studies. He holds an AB from Georgetown University and a Ph.D from the University of Minnesota in American Studies.

With 35 years of leadership experience in the experiential and applied learning, Andrew is a central figure in the fields of education abroad and domestic study away. He previously held leadership roles at the University of Minnesota, Macalester College, Lawrence University, and Denison University, and governance roles with NAFSA: Association of International Educators, the Forum on Education Abroad, the Associated Colleges of the Midwest (ACM), the Great Lakes Colleges Association (GLCA), the Higher Education Association for Urban Affairs, and IES.

Drawing on this extensive experience, Dr. Law leads the efforts of The College to develop study away opportunities that serve a diverse group of students by providing students opportunities that: 

• amplify and extend their undergraduate educational programs;
• offer community-based learning opportunities that stimulate and challenge their worldviews;
• broaden their notions of where and how they may work and contribute; and 
• structure applied learning contexts where they connect learning and doing through constructing a framework of informed responsibility for their personal, professional and social choices.

His current intellectual interests focus on the construction of explicit linkages between the educational purposes of experiential and applied learning in study away contexts and the pedagogical and formational imperatives of a liberal education.  He has published and presented widely on these topics, and is considered a thought-leader in higher education regarding the intersection of experiential, applied, international and liberal education.

Dr. Law is also a proud parent of two engaging and intellectually curious young adults, a task that he has the privilege of sharing with his wife of 35 years.  The blessings of these three relationships remind him on a daily basis that an educator’s purpose is to pay forward on the creation of a more just and equitable world.