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While at Harvard it is now easy to study abroad—the rightly-praised Office of International Programs (OIP) efficiently encourages and dispatches dozens to study-abroad programs around the globe, successfully increasing the ranks of the “globally competent”—non-academic experiences abroad are much harder to come by. Yet students in the College are quite desirous of leaving campus to explore the world through volunteering and working. Working abroad, however, is a challenge for all those who do not have family or friends in foreign countries and ample personal funds...
...first difficulty lies simply in locating an opportunity abroad. Linda Zou ’06 was told: you’re a proactive Harvard student, get out there and find yourself an internship. She learned that her options, she said, “consisted of doing Google searches, paying an organization to find an internship for me or looking through some books in the Office of Career Services (OCS) Reading Room, which I did without result.” Even armed with the most impressive of resumés, students like Zou face many difficulties when contacting employers overseas, from...
Once students have found an internship offer, they need to fund it and thus must grapple with Harvard’s complex and frustrating decentralization. There is no single office dealing solely with international experiences: OIP covers study abroad, whereas work abroad falls under the joint jurisdiction of departments, area study centers and OCS. A student wishing to work in Germany, for instance, will be juggled between OCS, OIP, the Center for European Studies and the German Department. Furthermore, funding is only granted extremely late, frequently in April, so those denied grants must cancel their internship and scramble to find...
...students to pursue at least one international experience.” Without money, there can be no staff support for students when they are at Harvard—current staff at OIP and the area studies centers are already overburdened—and no financial support once they are abroad. It is worth asking whether fundraising for international opportunities will be included in the goals of the upcoming capital campaign. If not, perhaps it should be, as current funds clearly do not meet the needs of the undergraduate body...
Professors began the spring semester by debating curricular review proposals to overhaul the nature of introductory science courses, to institute a January Term, and to encourage more students to study abroad at a forum yesterday...