Taking Education Abroad is an organized effort of college students and faculty/staff members to better their global community as well as their campus community. As educators and students, our members are especially concerned with under-education as a global crisis. This concern shaped our goals:

1. Raise money to support the efforts of non-governmental organizations providing education in under-educated areas

2. Promote awareness of the under-education crisis on college campuses to college students and other campus community members

3. Help students develop into active, concerned global citizens, educated enough to act responsibly as the member of a global community.

There is enormous fund-raising capabilities across the 4,146 college campuses in the United States. Engaging students in efforts to direct a portion of those funds to reducing under-education will not only benefit fiscally, but will raise the level of consciousness in the United States of global under-education and poverty in an important setting: the studio where tomorrow's professionals and community leaders are sculpted.

The creators of T.E.A. hope to create a discourse across the American College community that will entice students and faculty to investigate under-education as an important mechanism of global suffering and motivate them to enlist in the efforts to provide education and opportunity to the many oppressed peoples of the world.