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...According to one family friend, Summers wanted… to study abroad; his mother, however, discouraged it, arguing that MIT was too good a place to leave for a semester. That was one of the few arguments Summers lost...
...spent much of the ensuing week, bolstered by the Committee on Education Abroad’s recommendations to expand study abroad funding, imagining what life for Harvard, nay, the world, would be like, if Summers had left Cambridge for a semester his junior year. And what if the countless undergrads whose mothers urged us in the same (non) direction as Summers’, or who worried about the cost of studying abroad, could hop the pond, or the equator, or both...
...Studying abroad is not just about globalization and global business, which is likely the main reason Summers now touts student travel. Nor is it just about the partying (though excellent indeed), as its detractors would have us believe...
...short, we commend the CEA for coming up with a very thorough report. While financial aid for summer study abroad is an excellent idea, we also encourage the CEA to look into ways that Harvard can improve its international resources—whether property or academic partnerships—and increase the academic rigor of study abroad programs. We also urge the CEA to focus on alternative ways for students to gain international experience outside of studying abroad during the semester. A step in the right direction, it is now up to Harvard’s administration to fund these...
...combat this quality problem, the CEA should also encourage Harvard to invest money to improve on its existing summer study-abroad programs, to create more Harvard-sanctioned term time study abroad programs, and to establish partnerships with elite schools and institutions around the world. One of the CEA recommendations is that Harvard science departments work to develop opportunities at laboratories and field stations around the world—the same should be said for all the Harvard departments. Harvard currently has a villa in Italy and a laboratory in Chile (and a forest in New Zealand). More property would...