April 18, 2008

Study-Abroad Providers Feel Effects of Growing Public Scrutiny

By KARIN FISCHER

Discussions of access and ethics dominated as the Forum on Education Abroad convened its annual meeting here this month. The conference drew some 700 participants from colleges, overseas-study providers, and foreign host institutions, a turnout that is unprecedented in the consortium's six-year history.

During a session on the ethics of pricing study-abroad programs. overseas-study directors said they felt increased pressure to account for their costs, even as the declining value of

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