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Juniors Abroad

In order to enrich the intercultural and international awareness of our campus community, George Fox University offers a transportation-subsidized overseas course of approximately three weeks to any junior student who has fulfilled the following requirements. These tours occur during the annual May Term. Detailed information about eligibility and specific study tours is available from the director of Juniors Abroad.

Objectives

The student who successfully participates in Juniors Abroad will:

1. experience cross-cultural learning opportunities in cultures distinctly different from their own;
2. interact with the host culture through informal and formal contacts;
3. experience what it means to be a cultural "minority";
4. understand how to participate responsibly in a diverse global community;
5. learn, through the study of disciplines such as the fine arts, language, science, architecture, or history, how various social institutions affect the host culture.

Policies

1. Students must have maintained three consecutive years of full-time enrollment. Transfer students may receive partial support for transportation expenses; requests for such support should be made to the director of Juniors Abroad.
2. Students must register for either GEED 355 Cross-Cultural Experience-US or GEED 365 Cross Cultural Experience-International.
3. Students will include tuition costs of this course as part of their block tuition for the spring semester preceding the May tour, and will be billed for whatever credits exceed the 18-hour limit.
4. Students will pay room and board and other fees, in advance for each tour, to be economically arranged by the university. For the typical Juniors Abroad study tour, the university will pay the full transportation cost for eligible students. On occasion, a tour with unusually high costs may involve a transportation surcharge.
5. Students must have a minimum cumulative grade point average of 2.0 at the end of the fall semester preceding the May tour.
6. Students must be in good standing with the Office of Student Life in the fall and spring semesters preceding the May tour (see Standards of Conduct).
7. Students must intend to return and graduate from George Fox University.
8. Student accounts must be current as of Feb. 15 the year of the tour.
9. The university reserves the right to withdraw from this program and commitment prior to fall registration in any year. Students already registered under the program are guaranteed the tour.
10. The university reserves the right in the event of an international monetary, military, or other crisis to cancel or postpone a tour or to make substitute arrangements.
11. The university does not obligate itself to alternative remuneration to students who cannot go, who decide not to go, or who are ineligible to go on a Juniors Abroad study tour.
12. Students (or alumni or friends of the university) who are ineligible for free transportation may apply to join a study tour and pay their own transportation and tuition, on a space-available basis.