Domestic Student Travel: Guidance for Higher Education

Help your college or university improve oversight of students’ domestic travel by establishing rules for trip approval, leadership, and management.

• Implementing and enforcing a mandatory approval process for domestic student trips is generally the most important action a college or university can take to improve institutional management of these trips and mitigation of their risks.
• Whether student travel is domestic or international, it involves risk. Colleges and universities with clear requirements and robust oversight for international travel programs may not exercise similar oversight of student trips inside the U.S.
• This report includes other suggestions to help increase domestic travel oversight, such as training trip leaders, deciding when (or if) to use releases, and helping students prepare.