October 27, 2006

Seeking to Prepare Global Citizens, Colleges Push More Students to Study Abroad

By DEBRA E. BLUM

Joseph E. Burlett wanted to learn Spanish, but his twice-weekly language classes at Brookdale Community College weren't doing the job. The classes were too short, he says, and he wasn't practicing enough on his own. When an extra session a week with a tutor wasn't helping either, his professor suggested he take an intensive language course in a Spanish-speaking country.

Mr. Burlett, 24, who works 40 hours a week at a local sheriff's office while attending Brookdale, in New Jersey, had

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