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Over the past eight years, Harvard’s study abroad program has seen a dramatic expansion: what began with a small group of students who traveled overseas for a full semester has widened into a much larger component of the undergraduate population, most of whom spend a summer in...
The number of participants in summer study abroad programs has increased 706 percent over the past eight years at Harvard. Current undergraduates attribute the spike in interest to an increase in opportunities for summer funding and concerns about missing campus life during the school year.
“While you’re over there, you miss the people here, Harvard Square, and your professors,” Seesel says. “But now when you’re back, you miss Barcelona.”
The University has recently been able to increase financing for students studying abroad over the summer—formerly a major factor in students’ decisions about studying abroad.
A reduction in state aid and the increase in the city’s budget will result in a “modest” property tax increase, Healy said. He added that his goal over the next three months is to reduce the tax levy impact, which he hopes...