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LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Preference for profit is nothing new
Letters to the Editor | 1/27/09
Posted online at 3:28 AM EST on 1/27/09
To the Editor:
When was the last time the University made changes to study abroad policies ("Poor choices for study abroad," Jan. 20 issue) that didn't involve students paying more and/or increases in pure profits for the University?
If a student deserves a merit scholarship to study at Brandeis, then they deserve a scholarship to go abroad as well. If even one student chooses not to go abroad because she cannot afford it without the merit scholarship, the University will have done a great disservice to that student and, by extension, to the entire student body.
When a student is abroad, Brandeis incurs no expenses relating to that student, outside of some very minor administrative efforts that could probably be easily covered by a paltry $30 to 50 administration maintenance fee or some such. For the University to ask students studying abroad to pay full Brandeis tuition for that term is indefensible; it generates pure profit with no expenses incurred.
Brandeis touts the benefits of study abroad but continues to hamper its students' ability to take advantage of the opportunity. In the years since I graduated, policies have been instituted making study abroad more and more difficult. But to what end?
-Travis Seifman '04
When was the last time the University made changes to study abroad policies ("Poor choices for study abroad," Jan. 20 issue) that didn't involve students paying more and/or increases in pure profits for the University?
If a student deserves a merit scholarship to study at Brandeis, then they deserve a scholarship to go abroad as well. If even one student chooses not to go abroad because she cannot afford it without the merit scholarship, the University will have done a great disservice to that student and, by extension, to the entire student body.
When a student is abroad, Brandeis incurs no expenses relating to that student, outside of some very minor administrative efforts that could probably be easily covered by a paltry $30 to 50 administration maintenance fee or some such. For the University to ask students studying abroad to pay full Brandeis tuition for that term is indefensible; it generates pure profit with no expenses incurred.
Brandeis touts the benefits of study abroad but continues to hamper its students' ability to take advantage of the opportunity. In the years since I graduated, policies have been instituted making study abroad more and more difficult. But to what end?
-Travis Seifman '04
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