Word: abroader
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First, Harvard should institutionalize study abroad programs. Currently, the University leaves it to students to locate and identify research programs and then try to sell them to an often narrow-minded board that may or may not grant credit. By sanctioning specific opportunities to study abroad, the University could make an international experience more attractive and accessible to students...
...even more than placing trust in foreign universities, Harvard should learn to trust its own students to make time spent abroad productive. Right now study abroad credit can be torturous to arrange; in too many cases the University seems skeptical that undergraduates can motivate themselves to learn anything of value when allowed beyond the confines of the Square...
Papers containing original research from the area of study would serve as an ideal accountability mechanism. Departments would surely appreciate the increase in current, original scholarship. There is no reason why academic advisers or other faculty could not take the time to evaluate the work of students who study abroad. After all, if the learning were taking place on this campus, faculty members would be grading papers as a matter of course...
There are other aspects of current University policy that discourage study abroad. For example, any student can regularly take a fifth course here for no additional charge. But a fifth course taken at Harvard to compensate for trimester schedules or lighter programs at foreign universities inexplicably costs an extra $2000 dollars...
...second way Harvard could institutionalize study abroad would be to implement the system sketchily outlined a speech by President Derek C. Bok--to establish centers affiliated with the University in cities around the world. Unfortunately, this strategy can backfire. For example, Columbia's Reed Hall program in Paris is regarded by students as a vacation and by the academic establishment as a joke...