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...safer to travel to the slums of Detroit or the suburbs of Tel Aviv? How about the Indian side of Kashmir versus the posh campus of the American University of Beirut? According to Harvard’s Office of International Programs (OIP), students are free to visit the formers, but Israel and Lebanon are still...
...bottom line is that safe travelers can study abroad in a broad range of locales. Schools like Yale and New York University already recognize this. They ban students from traveling to dangerous areas within other countries instead of imposing blanket bans on countries themselves. The OIP and the Harvard Office of General Counsel (OGC) must either conform to these more reasonable and widely-adopted standards for international travel or provide a transparent explanation for why they will...
It’s time for the OGC to rethink its simplistic restrictions on travel abroad. At the very least, the OGC and the OIP should be open to evaluating individual travel plans on a case-by-case basis, taking into account language skills, cultural and ethnic background and the specific regions in-country that each student plans to visit. As Harvard embarks on a major new study abroad initiative, it must affirm its commitment to providing students with as diverse a set of international experiences as is possible...
Director of the Office of International Programs (OIP) Jane Edwards said, “With the policy as it is and with the warning as it is, even though it has been downgraded, it will not change [Harvard’s] policy towards Israel...
...seen a drastic increase in the number of students who participate in international programs. The number of students doing study abroad for credit increased from 172 in 2000-2001 to 351 in 2004-2005. Including students in non-credit programs, a total of 840 students went abroad with OIP support from...