In an effort to gather information on the latest management practices in the field, the Forum on Education Abroad's Data Committee, under the leadership of its chair, Kim Kreutzer, designed a survey to assess study abroad program management practices. The Data Committee was assisted in this effort by the Forum's Standards Committee and the Forum Council. The goal of the survey is to provide information to the Forum membership, the field of education abroad, the media, and the public about how education abroad programs are managed. Another purpose was to provide information useful to the work of drafting a code of ethics for education abroad, a project begun at an Ethics Meeting convened at the Forum offices in Carlisle, Pennsylvania on September 23-25, 2007. A further goal of the survey is to help inform the Forum's work in the area of Standards of Good Practice. Recognized by the U.S. Department of Justice and the Federal Trade Commission as a Standards Development Organization for education abroad, the Forum develops and disseminates best practices and, through its Quality Improvement Program (QUIP) assists Forum member institutions to improve the quality of their education abroad programs. [For "Results of the Survey on Program Management in Education Abroad. Executive Summary," see ED538493.]