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Chair of the Committee on Education Abroad John H. Coatsworth, who was the only committee dissenter to the College’s earlier policy and who served on Gross’ committee, said that the restrictions had detracted from the effortsof departments “training students to be experts, or at least knowledgeable, in parts of the world that were now off-limits...
...information about the policies pursued by other universities and the decision which we took was to put Harvard back in the middle range, not the most liberal, but not any longer the most restrictive,” said Coatsworth...
Early this summer, Dean of the College Benedict H. Gross ’71 asked a task force—including Associate Dean of the College Georgene Herschbach, Director of the Committee on Education Abroad John H. Coatsworth, Harvard College Professor Jorge I. Dominguez, Edwards, a representative from the General Counsel, a student, and others—to reevaluate Harvard’s travel policy...
...guidelines will likely include consideration of and inquiry into the “relationship of the student’s activity to his or her educational goals at Harvard,” and the length and intensity of individual programs, says Coatsworth...
...don’t want to set standards so high that students are unable to fulfill them,” says Coatsworth, but “we don’t want to give credit for tourism...