Word: oip
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Jane Edwards, director of Harvard’s Office of International Programs (OIP), said that the new program represents an effort “to get the best possible collection of opportunities for students...
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...
Apart from these well-publicized hurdles facing the College, there are more widespread structural ones which still need to be addressed. For one, although the OIP centralizes many of the aspects of study abroad experiences and serves as a valuable resource for students, there is no comparable office at Harvard to help students learn about the other international programs, jobs and internships explored by their fellow students. The Office of Career Services provides some valuable information in this area, but often individuals set up fantastic opportunities on their own or through contacts with individual professors, and information about these experiences...
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...