Dear IAFI members and colleagues:
Duke and Rutgers have joined Penn in suspending study programs in Israel.
-Andy Marks
Duke University
http://studyabroad.duke.edu/home/Programs/Summer/Duke_in_Israel
Rutgers University
http://www.philly.com/philly/hp/news_update/20090117_Mideast_strife_hits_study_abroad.html
Mideast strife hits study abroad. Penn and Rutgers have decided not to
conduct programs this semester
because of the violence.
By Susan Snyder
Inquirer Staff Writer
Concerned about increasing violence in the Gaza Strip, the University of
Pennsylvania and Rutgers University have pulled back on
study-abroad programs in Israel and the West Bank.
Penn's nursing program has postponed sending five students to Israel, and
likely will suspend study abroad there for the spring semester.
And the university strongly recommended that students in other programs in
that region defer study abroad for the spring. Four of
the six agreed; the other two applied for leaves of absences to study at
Israeli universities on their own.
At Rutgers, nine students were scheduled to study there this spring.
Six still plan to go on their own. One will remain home, and two others have
decided to go to Australia, said spokeswoman Sandra
Lanman.
Please visit the IAFI web site for more information on how IAFI is
working to PREVENT the success of academic boycotts of Israel:
http://www.iafi-israel.org/
--
Andrew R. Marks, M.D.
Wu Professor and Chair, Department of Physiology and Cellular Biophysics
Founding Director, Helen and Clyde Wu Center for Molecular Cardiology