Administrators of American study abroad programs are closely watching the uprising against Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi to determine whether they can safely continue their programming in Egypt or whether the country they only recently returned to will become a no-go zone once again. A student at Kenyon College who was in Alexandria on a summer internship teaching English to children was fatally stabbed on Friday while observing a protest.
“We will not send students there unless we are reassured that the situation has stabilized enough for students to be safe there,” said Michael Geisler, the vice president for Language Schools, Schools Abroad, and Graduate Programs and a professor of German at Middlebury College, which runs a study abroad program based at Alexandria University. Middlebury’s program is not currently in session, and a final decision about whether to offer it in the fall semester has not yet been made.
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