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Sorina Codrea ’12, who participated in the Host Family Program during her freshman year, questioned the relevance of the host program due to the recent adjustments to the academic calendar, which now includes over a month-long January Term break...
Codrea said that host families may have been more important to students last year when the two-week-long winter break was not enough time for many students to return home...
...McFarlane said that while the Office of Financial Aid provides a travel stipend for students receiving significant financial assistance to travel home over J-term, she did not anticipate the new academic calendar detracting from the relevance of the host family program...
Regardless of the changing schedule, for some host families and their students, the benefits of the program are clear...
...fulfill some of the roles that parents cannot due to the distance or other constraints,” host dad Andrew C. Compaine ’81 said. “To be able to be a witness to these formative years has been a great honor and really enriched our lives...