May 6, 2009
Swine-Flu Scare Offers Lessons for Study-Abroad Programs
The number of newly reported swine-flu cases appears to be ebbing, but the recent health scare, which led some institutions to pull students and faculty members out of Mexico, the epicenter of the outbreak, and to cancel study-abroad programs there, can have some lasting lessons for colleges, says Gary Rhodes, director of the Center for Global Education at Loyola Marymount University.
Just as colleges learned from earlier incidents, like the London subway bombing and earthquakes in
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