Word: oip
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...Dunster Street. That’s what Robin Mount, interim director of the Office of Career Services, is calling the organization’s newfound partnership with the Office of International Programs—which was spun off from OCS in 2002 to highlight international programs. This fall, the OIP moved for the second time in roughly a year to be near their larger counterpart, a shift administrators say is intended to increase coordination between the offices’ offerings for undergraduates by creating shared office space, joint events, and further collaborating in their online efforts. Administrators said the changes...
...Dunster St. at the end of June. The Office of International Programs—which was moved from the basement of University Hall to 2 Arrow St. this year—will move into the Core Program’s office at 77 Dunster St., according to OIP Director Catherine H. Winnie. Financial constraints have prevented the Gen Ed committee from pursuing any money-intensive initiatives in the short term, including a proposed great books track, according to Gen Ed committee members. Kenen said that while the committee had been worried that the committee would not receive enough course proposals...
...announced in cancellations for Mexico-bound trips due to concerns about swine flu. Office of International Programs Director Catherine H. Winnie said that any updates on University-related travel restrictions will be announced on Harvard’s home page, and students funded by individual centers, such as the OIP and the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, will be contacted directly by those organizations regarding any changes. Winnie said that there is one Harvard-sponsored internship program in Mexico run by the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies. In addition, there are half a dozen undergraduates researching...
...grants, administered though the Office of International Programs, are the fruit of a $100 million donation from David Rockefeller ’36, made specifically to fund “significant” international projects. The determination of significance is a task left by the University to the OIP, which assesses how well student proposals adhere to standards for cultural immersion, faculty consultation, and curricular integration. According to Erin E. Goodman, the assistant director of the OIP and one of the grant program’s chief coordinators, 825 students applied for Rockefeller grants, which are available only for proposed...
...sophomore year, Peisker had met six of her 11 Government requirements, and, deciding to go forward with a thesis, had found a thesis advisor—something she was warned would be far more difficult to do 3,000 miles away. She also had the OIP approve all eight half credits for the electives she planned to take at the university in Moscow.Peisker spent the summer before her year abroad in Ukraine and decided that she wanted to go back. Nearly six months after initially having her classes approved for a full year in Moscow, she e-mailed...