Study-Abroad Group Gets Headquarters at Smith College, Aims to Set Quality Standards

By ELIZABETH F. FARRELL

Smith College announced last week that it has donated office space on its Northampton, Mass., campus to the Forum on Education Abroad, a new independent organization devoted to studying the quality of college study-abroad programs.

After almost two years of planning, the forum will open its offices at Smith in October, and its director, Geoffrey Bannister, the former president of