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According to the two-year-old Office of International Programs (OIP), 118 undergraduates will be spending time abroad this fall. Last fall 88 students headed overseas, while 55 did in fall 2002. Spring semester study abroad participants also rose slightly from 76 in 2003 to 83 students last year...
...figures still fall short of the 25 percent of students—or about 200 a semester—that the leaders of Harvard’s Curricular Review are hoping will eventually opt to study abroad...
...Curricular Review recommendations, released last April, called for the expansion of financial support for grants and loans to allow students to study abroad more easily. That followed the College’s move in the spring of 2003 to grant one Core exemption for each semester spent abroad...
...College still lags behind peer institutions when it comes to easing the study abroad process, students who have headed overseas said. Harvard operates only one self-run program overseas—in Chile—and many students are participating in programs run by other colleges...
...main thing that turns students away from studying abroad is the fact that Harvard doesn’t have many of its own programs,” said Aubyn E. Niemi ’06, who is studying in Paris with Columbia University’s Reid Hall Language, Culture and Society program...