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Champagne toasts recently sounded from the Office of International Programs (OIP) in University Hall. More than twice as many undergraduates are now studying abroad this fall compared to just two years ago, when the OIP was founded. The success of OIP Director Jane Edwards and her team in ensuring Harvard students’ “global competence”—an unhappy expression coined during the Harvard College Curricular Review (HCCR)—has been bolstered these past years by the central administration’s new-found emphasis on international experience. While the new numbers...
...numbers themselves—while undoubtedly positive—are less astounding. In truth, the percentage increase is a better indication of the extent to which Harvard trailed behind its rivals in this area. This fall 115 of Harvard’s roughly 6,600 undergraduates are studying abroad; in fall 2002, a pathetic 55 did so. To be sure, this increase in just two years is notable, but before Harvard reaches its stated goal—which the HCCR set at 25 percent of students having a “significant” international experience during their undergraduate careers?...
Nine months ago, in a desperate and poorly conceived attempt to get as far away from Harvard as possible, I left for a semester abroad at the University of Glasgow. Ever the optimist, I was half-hoping to be the first person to thoroughly despise his study abroad experience. And I was definitely headed in that direction. That is, until I joined the University of Glasgow American football team at the behest of its outgoing and rather portly president. Over the next nine months I would play for both my university team and the city?...
...companies will be forced to lower prices to compete. When buying books this fall, students must remember that as a collective group, consumers do retain some power on their own to force publishing companies to curb their practices. But that power must be exercised—be it online, abroad or at a used books sale...
...generational phenomenon. "My parents had more pressure on them to become doctors or lawyers. With this generation there is an open-minded feeling in terms of what you can pursue as a career," he explains. So it is that many Asians, both here and abroad, are entering into fashion and design...