Yale to allow more credits abroad 3.06.09
Students will now be allowed to use credits from both a summer and semester abroad toward the 36 credits required to graduate, University faculty decided Thursday.
Students will now be allowed to use credits from both a summer and semester abroad toward the 36 credits required to graduate, University faculty decided Thursday.
Most Yalies hoping to spend the summer at an internship in the United Kingdom through the British Bulldogs program will need to look for work elsewhere, Undergraduate Career Services Director Phil Jones announced Thursday.
Administrators have now set their sights on exporting the concept of sustainability to Yalies studying abroad.
The weakening American dollar has had an impact on everything from foreign trade to Americans’ travel habits. But this summer, some Elis will feel the impact even more directly as they pack up and prepare for summer study sessions abroad.
Students hoping to spend their summers studying in Bhutan, Burma or Bangladesh can now rest easy. But first, they should be sure to apply for Yale-sponsored grants or fellowships to help subsidize their exotic excursions — for their trips are now eligible for University support. Under a new policy formalized last week, the University will lift its ban on Yale-sponsored...
In part as a response to recent investigations into study-abroad practices, the Forum on Education Abroad on Monday released a “code of ethics” meant to provide clear rules for relationships between universities and program providers.
Yale is among a consortium of 10 internationally renowned research universities that will be opening their doors to students at member schools for intensive summer study-abroad programs, the Yale Summer Session office announced this week.
A record number of students will study in Asia this year free of charge, thanks to a million-dollar boost in the program’s funding authorized by University President Richard Levin.
The number of Yalies studying abroad during the academic year decreased by 22 percent in 2007-08, Yale International Education and Fellowships Programs administrators announced this week, speculating that the cause may be a shift to more overseas summer program participation.
Yale will cooperate with a request from the Connecticut attorney general for records pertaining to its study-abroad programs as part of a probe into whether officials at universities around the state received kickbacks from study-abroad companies, University officials said Monday.
Connecticut’s attorney general has asked Yale and nine other schools throughout the state to hand over records pertaining to their study-abroad programs as part of an investigation into whether school officials received kickbacks from study-abroad companies.
Pedro Henrique De Cristo, a recognized governmental reformer in his home country,helped found the brand-new Bulldogs in Brazil internship program, being offered for the first time this summer.