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Champagne toasts recently sounded from the Office of International Programs (OIP) in University Hall. More than twice as many undergraduates are now studying abroad this fall compared to just two years ago, when the OIP was founded. The success of OIP Director Jane Edwards and her team in ensuring Harvard students’ “global competence”—an unhappy expression coined during the Harvard College Curricular Review (HCCR)—has been bolstered these past years by the central administration’s new-found emphasis on international experience. While the new numbers...
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...
...Moving the OIP right in the center of Harvard Yard felt like it was symbolic of study abroad becoming the center of Harvard,” said Lisa M. Shichijo ’06, who plans to spend spring semester in Buenos Aires, of the office’s recent move to the basement of University Hall...
Although Aaron M. Mihaly ’05 went to Rio de Janeiro last spring through the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, he said the OIP held sessions on how to receive course credit, avoid culture shock and even get medical insurance overseas...
Niemi said the OIP is sending e-mails about Harvard events in Europe and helps “keep us connected to the goings on at home...