Word: sweetbriar
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...squeeze on foreign study, most colleges have drastically expanded their junior-year-abroad programs. In the majority of cases, the student enrolls directly in a foreign university, but remains under the stringent supervision of a reliable American sponsorship program, the most popular of which are run by Wayne State, Sweetbriar, and Indiana universities...
...ironic that Harvard, the only American college well known and widely respected in Europe, has lagged behind most others in developing opportunities for foreign study. In 1952 the Faculty authorized the Romance and Germanic Languages Departments to grant carefully screened applicants junior-year-abroad under the Wayne State or Sweetbriar programs. In 1961 the authorization was extended to the History and Literature Department. Concentrators in all other fields are left high and dry, unless they can persuade their department chairman to steer the individual request through the Committee on Educational Policy and the Administrative Board--bureaucratic channels of which most...