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Despite recent trends, changes have historically been slow regarding international education at Harvard. The first efforts at incorporating international education came in the 1949-1950 academic year, when students concentrating in certain languages obtained the right to earn credit for work done abroad in their concentration, according to a 2001 Crimson article. It wasn’t until nearly fifty years later—2002—that that the OIP actually opened its doors...
...bureaucracy deterred many from taking the jump. In 1994, for instance, only 142 undergraduates—or just 2.2 percent of Harvard undergrads—went abroad. These low figures didn’t please the new president, globalization expert Lawrence H. Summers. Big plans and the global push were soon underway, but would academic quality be sacrificed for numbers...
Amidst criticism that the University lagged behind its peers in promoting global education, the Summers’ administration began a drive to increase study abroad...
Requirements for program approval were eased. As of the spring of 2002, for example, students no longer had to prove that their semesters abroad would provide a “special opportunity not available at Harvard”; all study abroad would be treated as a “special opportunity...
...emphasis on study abroad increased, Harvard was filled with burgeoning anticipation...