Back in January, study abroad officials scrambledto get students out of Egypt. Now they’re talking about whether -- or when – students can return. With the spread of unrest across the Middle East and the tsunami and radiation crisis in Japan, the question of where students should or shouldn’t be allowed to study abroad, in which countries and which individual cases, has never seemed more salient.
Salient it is at the annual Forum on Education Abroad conference, where sessions Thursday focused on such topics as whether to allow study abroad in countries impacted by U.S. State Department travel warnings or alerts, and plans for future programs not only in Egypt, but also in countries affected by natural disasters -- Chile, Haiti, Japan and New Zealand. For colleges that have incurred significant costs in evacuating students from Cairo, or from Tokyo, the decision of when to resume programming, and why – what has changed -- is no minor matter.
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