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...there’s any drawback to Princeton’s program, it may be that [because of the rigor] you miss out on some of the culture,” McKiernan said. “Any interaction you can have with the people, especially the rural people who have not had much interaction with Americans, much less foreigners, is very beneficial...
Nevertheless she says one of her priorities in evaluating potential programs will be their academic rigor...
Edwards and the Office of International Programs—as well as departments that choose whether to grant course credit—have some control over the academic rigor of programs abroad...
...distributional requirement system established in the 1940s, which faced widespread faculty and student dissatisfaction by the time of Rosovsky’s 1970s review that created the Core as a replacement. According to critics at the time, the flexibility of the 1940s system led to diluted courses lacking intellectual rigor and left the faculty uninspired and lackadaisical about teaching them...
Harvard’s criticism reflected a more widespread dissatisfaction with the educational rigor of ROTC. Princeton President Harold W. Dodd, for example, believed that its ROTC program was too segregated from civilian instruction...