Educational Resources Group To Consider Overseas Study

The Educational Resources Group (ERG) Subcommittee on Study Abroad considered amending Stanford's overseas study program to fit the program to Harvard administration requirements.

Subcommittee members stressed the need for a program that would allow access to almost anywhere in the world and would involve living in the native community.

Concerns about the Stanford program included reconciling the Harvard semester system to Stanford's quarter system and finding funding for the program. "I don't want the next headline to be 'Tuition goes up because Harvard accepts Stanford program,"' one member, who asked not to be identified, said at the meeting.

Members said that the Stanford program would probably meet the administration's stringent quality control requirements. Several members noted that each year thirty to forty per cent of Stanford's undergraduates participate in the program.

They added that using a pre-established system would simplify sending students overseas to study.