Princeton University has released details of a gap year program under which recently admitted students can defer their studies for the year after high school to participate in international service programs. This seems an interesting idea because it lets young students focus on the issues faced by cultures other than their own at a time [...]
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American universities have begun to admit students to their undergraduate programs in Qatar, the site of the new 2500-acre Education City complex. Of these, Cornell’s medical school opened first, but it has now been joined by Virginia Commonwealth, Texas A&M, Carnegie Mellon and Northwestern University altogether making room for around 300 students in the first-year [...]
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It was only a few years ago that most all American universities limited their international programs to some sort of study-aborad opportunity for their undergraduate students. All of that is starting to change, as many schools have undertaken the development of full-fledged university campuses at remote locations, a trend that is outlined in the first [...]
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The world used to be a simpler place, or so say some, but there’s no question that both students and faculty involved in study abroad programs have to be aware of the possibility that they might have to be evacuated under difficult circumstances. To illustrate the point consider the case of a group of Cornell [...]
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It’s easy to think of “study abroad” as being an experience reserved for American’s attending classes overseas to learn more about other cultures. In truth, this narrow definition excludes another important category of such experiences, namely those of foreign students coming to our schools to encounter our culture in a more direct way than is [...]
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New York’s Attorney General Andrew Cuomo has launched an investigation into the relationship between universities and the companies that provide study abroad opportunities for their students. What concerns the AG’s office is the financial relationships between the providers and the schools themselves. For example, do the providers offer travel perks to school administrators to stay [...]
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The value of the US dollar isn’t usually on the minds of American undergraduates, but with the increasing interest in international study abroad, its current weakness has become a matter of real concern. The dollar has fallen dramatically over the last five years versus the level of many currencies, especially the euro. The major cities [...]
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A Yale University biology professor has charged in an email message that he observed a high rate of plagiarism while he was teaching at Peking University. Professor Stephen Stearns was teaching there in a joint Yale-Peking program that permits Yale students to study in Peking, while taking Yale University classes in English.
Stearns’ email indicated that [...]
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