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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...
...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...
Besides opportunities during the summer and during the semester, Harvard undergraduates should also be able to gain international experience through their classes. The CEA proposes that when the January term is put into place, professors should take their students on field trips around the world to enhance their studies. This is an excellent idea, but this proposal does not have to wait until the implementation of the January term; the proposed changes should begin to happen now. Some Harvard departments already take their students on faraway field trips during breaks. For example, the Earth and Planetary Sciences (EPS) department...
...CEA is a three-member council whose self-described mission is “to provide the President with objective economic analysis and advice on the development and implementation of a wide range of domestic and international economic policy issues,” according to its website...
...CEA website describes the job of the chairman as twofold—to run the council and to present the council’s advice directly to the President...