Center for Global Education

Brita Doyle joined Gettysburg College as the Director of the Center for Global Education in January 2025. She comes from Allegheny College in northwest Pennsylvania where Brita has been the Assistant Dean for Global Education since early 2022. At Allegheny, she managed the operations of all off-campus study programs including short faculty-led programs and over forty sponsored semester-long study away programs. She led the efforts to conduct a holistic review of Allegheny's current study away program portfolio resulting in the development of new sponsored programs to fill academic and geographic gaps in their offerings.

Prior to returning to her roots in northwest Pennsylvania in 2022, she spent nearly 20 years at American University’s AU Abroad office in Washington, DC in various positions. A highlight of her time at AU Abroad was developing new programs for the AU Center in Madrid, where she studied abroad herself as an AU undergraduate. Brita holds an MA in International Training and Education and a BA in Spanish Language & Latin American Studies, both from American University. Her own study abroad experiences began with a year in Säkylä, Finland as a Rotary youth foreign exchange student during her junior year of high school. She also spent two semesters abroad during college in Santiago, Chile, and Madrid, Spain. She loves helping students step out of their comfort zone to discover more about the world and about themselves.

In addition to being a member of several national study abroad scholarship review committees, Brita’s experience in the field of international education includes numerous presentations and leadership positions at national and regional levels of NAFSA: Association of International Educators. She led the NAFSA Rainbow Special Interest Group first as Co-Chair and now as a Board Member, she served as a steering committee member for the Fund for Education Abroad’s DC Area Scholarship and conducted training for NAFSA workshops about the fundamentals of education abroad advising. Her research interests include best practices in study away risk management, program assessment, and providing access and study away advising support to all students. When she is not researching her next travel destination, Brita is outside in the woods with her wife and their two Australian Shepherds, Silvie and Hazel.