Michele Cox-Director of Study Abroad

mcox@richmond.edu
(804) 289-8838

As the director of study abroad , Michele is responsible for the administrative oversight of the University's more than 70 study abroad programs.  Her main responsibilities include advising students, overseeing budgets, compiling statistics, addressing liability issues and managing more than 20 exchange and study abroad programs in Argentina, Chile, Hong Kong, Mexico, Spain, Taiwan, Thailand, and Vietnam.  Since coming to the Office of International Education in 1991, Michele has written and amended exchange agreements between the University of Richmond and institutions abroad and coordinated incoming exchange students and outgoing study abroad students.  She is a member of the international education committee and participates in the host family program.

Michele is a graduate of Muhlenberg College, but also studied at American University in Washington, D.C. and Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan, Poland.  Previously, she worked at the Experiment in International Living, the National Endowment for Democracy, and with the Cyprus America Scholarship Program and the West Bank/Gaza Project at AMIDEAST.  Michele has traveled to more than 35 countries on five continents.

In her free time, Michele likes to spend time with her daughter, Sarah, travel, and attend cultural events around Richmond

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