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...make an effort to find equivalently rigorous programs abroad, possibly by establishing more direct relations with other universities. An expansion of Harvard-affiliated programs abroad is particularly called for when a given location offers unique educational opportunities, such as tropical marine biology. Furthermore, the Office of International Programs (OIP) could do more to consolidate the process of applying to study abroad for science concentrators...
Term time study aside, the College and the OIP should focus their efforts on easing the process of studying abroad during summer, because the summer months do not have the same real or perceived opportunity cost as time taken from the academic year. Summer study abroad is particularly helpful for science concentrators, because it allows them to avoid the problem of interrupting a strict plan of study to engage in an international experience. However, the financial cost of going abroad during the summer, both in terms of actual cost incurred and in terms of income not earned, is often...
...those who do go abroad, and those who don’t.Among those who chose to go abroad over the past two years, non-science concentrators greatly outnumbered science students—by more than five to one last year, according to the Office of International Programs (OIP) annual report.And while this gap at Harvard is part of a larger national pattern, according to OIP director Jane Edwards and Associate Dean of the College Georgene B. Herschbach, administrators and faculty want to address the discrepancy.“We have to redouble our efforts?...
...percentage of Harvard students going abroad went up over 20 percent during the last academic year and over 70 percent this past summer, according to Jane Edwards, Director of OIP. This semester, 120 students are studying abroad...
...OIP squeezed a total of 88 tables under the Science Center tent yesterday. One front table featured the new Funding Sources Database for International Experience, a website that lists all Harvard funding sources for international experience. Another provided information about the new Harvard study abroad program in Argentina, scheduled to begin in the 2006 fall semester...