Word: oip
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...next summer, Harvard—in collaboration with Ca’Foscari University—has designed summer programs in Venice on art conservation and lagoon biology, according to Director of the Office of International Programs (OIP) Jane Edwards...
Edwards did not respond to requests for comment yesterday, but according to the OIP website, the policy was adopted in 2003 with the intention of ensuring student safety...
...organizer of the effort to change the policy, said that he and other students will present the signatures to Dean of the College Benedict H. Gross ’71, Deputy Dean of the College Patricia O’Brien, and Director of the Office of International Programs (OIP) Jane Edwards in a meeting on Thursday...
...bottom line is that safe travelers can study abroad in a broad range of locales. Schools like Yale and New York University already recognize this. They ban students from traveling to dangerous areas within other countries instead of imposing blanket bans on countries themselves. The OIP and the Harvard Office of General Counsel (OGC) must either conform to these more reasonable and widely-adopted standards for international travel or provide a transparent explanation for why they will...
It’s time for the OGC to rethink its simplistic restrictions on travel abroad. At the very least, the OGC and the OIP should be open to evaluating individual travel plans on a case-by-case basis, taking into account language skills, cultural and ethnic background and the specific regions in-country that each student plans to visit. As Harvard embarks on a major new study abroad initiative, it must affirm its commitment to providing students with as diverse a set of international experiences as is possible...