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...Committee on Education Abroad (CEA) recently released a report suggesting ways to encourage Harvard students to undertake an international experience before they graduate. The report has many good insights. It correctly assesses the need for more departmental advising for students who wish to study abroad. Encouraging departments to be more flexible with requirements for the students who are studying abroad is also a step in the right direction. Most important, the CEA also recognized the unique commitment that Harvard students have to their extracurricular activities, commitments which would deter many students from skipping entire semesters. To counter this reluctance...
However, before Harvard devotes all of its money to financing students studying abroad over the summer, it is also important for Harvard to spend money to improve its study abroad infrastructure. Many students are reluctant to go abroad mainly due to the lack of available satisfactory study-abroad programs. There are a limited number of programs from which Harvard accepts credit in the first place, and the number of attractive options is further diminished by the undemanding curricula used by these programs...
...found some of the suggestions to be, I’m afraid, a bit naive,” she continued, referring in part to the proposal that science students engage in research abroad...
...What I missed in the section of realistic objectives is an articulation of what we hope our students will accomplish through study abroad,” Chaput said...
...meeting reached its scheduled end after about 15 minutes of discussion of the study abroad report and before the faculty reached the remaining two items on the agenda, both of which also dealt with the curricular review...