June 7, 2002

Study-Abroad Programs May Have a Lasting Impact on Students' Lives

To the Editor:

Ben Feinberg's critique of international-education programs has identified several key shortcomings as colleges race to send students abroad, sometimes creating a homogeneous North American group insulated from true intercultural experience ("What Students Don't Learn Abroad," The Review, May 3). This is particularly true when the focus is on the exotic and the sensational, which may serve to reinforce misperceptions created by various media. But the author leaps too

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