Services Provided

Visiting scholars arrive throughout the year and have a wide variety of needs. Here is a partial listing of current services we provide. If you have a need that is not on our list, let us know and we will determine if we can meet it or refer you to someone how can help.

Pre-arrival arrangement

• Airport pickup
• Initial home stay, while looking for housing

Arrival

• Help finding apartment
• Tour of campus and community
• Where to buy food and goods
• Attend VSA scholar orientation meeting on campus
• Help finding a place to worship
• Finding furniture

Professional

• Network with community professionals in your field
• Trips and outings
• Holiday dinner invitation

Social Arrival

• Professional and social discussion groups
• American friendship and family
• Wives lunch group

Home Away from Home

Our desire is that each scholar’s stay in America would be profitable, both in their research and in their personal and family life. Scholars have told us they would like to be a guest in an American home, but few ever have that opportunity. Developing friendships with American families is one of the scholar’s main desires. Each year we have connected scholars and families together so they can have a home-away-from-home. Often these connections result in lifetime friendships.