The pack your
study-abroad office needs.

U.S. universities running a faculty-led programme abroad have to clear it through several internal reviews - academic council (for curriculum and credit), risk-management office (for health, safety, insurance), study-abroad office (for student-services framework), and often a board-level committee (for budget and contract). Each reviewer wants different documentation. Without it, approval stalls. The Academic Approval Pack is the documentation set we issue to short-circuit that process.

The institutional context behind the pack: Accademia di Italiano operates as part of Unicollege SSML, an Istituto ad Ordinamento Universitario accredited by Italy's Ministero dell'Università e della Ricerca (MUR) - the Ministry of Universities and Research. In practice this means the documentation we issue sits within a recognised Italian higher-education framework, not within a stand-alone language school. We note this in the pack's cover letter so that your curriculum committee can verify the institutional basis at first glance.

Italian law does not formally accredit stand-alone language schools, so we prefer to be straightforward about where our institutional credibility comes from. A language school making a free-standing claim of "Italian government accreditation" is, technically, not accurate - and your reviewers will spot it.

What's inside the pack

1. Programme overview. A one-page summary suitable for board / committee review: dates, city, cohort size, academic structure, total contact hours, faculty lead, our delivery role, total cost framework. 2. Academic structure document. The detailed academic frame: course taught by visiting faculty, contact hours, language-instruction component if any (CEFR level targeted, hours), field-study components, assessment design space (yours to define), credit-equivalency reference (yours to confirm). 3. Facilities & infrastructure document. Detailed description of classroom space, language lab, study rooms, library, on-campus residence (where applicable), accessibility provisions, technology infrastructure, and the historic provenance of the campus building (Padri Scolopi in Florence, Archbishop's Seminary in Mantua). 4. Student services framework. What we provide on-site: on-arrival orientation, daily on-call contact, health-services liaison, housing logistics, emergency protocol, weekend/free-time programming options. What we explicitly do not provide and where the boundary sits. 5. Health, safety, and risk-management document. Emergency contact protocol, local health-services map, insurance recommendations, fire-safety certifications for the campus, building access protocols. For the risk-management office. 6. Faculty support brief. What the visiting faculty member can expect - classroom assigned, AV equipment, printing/copying access, office space if needed, on-call administrative support, local transport guidance. For the faculty member personally. 7. Housing options document. On-campus residence (Florence) or pre-vetted off-campus options (Milan, Mantua, Turin): room types, capacity, kitchen access, distance from classroom, security arrangements, indicative cost. 8. Sample weekly schedule. An indicative day-by-day for the programme as planned, including faculty contact hours, language hours, field-study slots, free time. Reviewable by the academic council. 9. Cost & payment framework. Detailed cost breakdown per student, payment schedule, what is included / not included, cancellation policy, currency-exchange protocol. For the finance office. 10. Accreditation and institutional references. Each campus is set in a historic building meeting the academic infrastructure expectations of U.S. partner institutions. Accreditation reference documents for Accademia di Italiano are included.