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Starting this fall, the Rockefeller Center’s Global Policy Leadership course, taught by Public Policy Professor Charlie Wheelan ‘88, will include a two-week-long, December trip to India, with the course holding out the potential for trips to other countries in future terms. This is another innovative addition to the curriculum. Recently the Film Studies department announced an FSP in Hollywood.

Well well. It seems that the pace of innovation is picking up at the College. Good! After all, not much new has happened in the last 15 years.

This space has long been of the opinion that all students should be required to participate in some kind of Dartmouth program abroad. The educational and social experience is sans pareille: students get to know a faculty member very well, and the dozen or so fellow students on each trip provide the opportunity to meet a new group of friends. An added bonus of off-campus study is the freeing up of dorm space in Hanover, which would make it easier to reinstitute dorm continuity.

Addendum: I hope that Professor Wheelan’s creative use of the newly established six-week break between Thanksgiving and the New Year will be an inspiration to other faculty members. The opportunity to have a twelve-week term for some courses has the potential to provide special experiences for undergraduates.