<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">------------------------------------------------------------------------<br>Arabic-L: Fri 15 April 2011<br>Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson <<a href="mailto:dil@byu.edu">dil@byu.edu</a>><br>[To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l@byu.edu]<br>[To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to<br><a href="mailto:listserv@byu.edu">listserv@byu.edu</a> with first line reading:<br> unsubscribe arabic-l ]<br><br>-------------------------Directory------------------------------------<br><br>1) Subject: Study Abroad with Travel Advisories Response<br>2) Subject: Study Abroad with Travel Advisories Response<br><br><div>-------------------------Messages-----------------------------------<br>1)<br>Date: 15 April 2011<br>From: Kala Carruthers Azar <<a href="mailto:KAzar@academic-travel.com">KAzar@academic-travel.com</a>><br>Subject: Study Abroad with Travel Advisories Response<br><br>Dear Uri,<br><br>CET Academic Programs is still operating it's Intensive Arabic Language & Culture Studies program in Aleppo, Syria. While I cannot speak to the specific policies of academic institutions, I can tell you that we still have a waitlist for our Summer 2011 program. Also, all of our students currently in Aleppo are completing the spring program. Our students come from a variety of schools. <br><br>Thanks,<br><br>Kala<br>_____________________________________________<br>CET Academic Programs ~ Innovators in Study Abroad Since 1982<br>Kala Carruthers Azar<br>Syria Program Manager<br>1920 N Street, N.W., Suite 200, Washington, D.C. 20036<br>Phone: 202-349-0676, 800-225-4262, ext. 7383<br>Fax: 202-342-0317<br>E-mail: <a href="mailto:kazar@academic-travel.com">kazar@academic-travel.com</a><br>Web: <a href="http://www.cetacademicprograms.com/">www.cetacademicprograms.com</a><br><br><div>--------------------------------------------------------------------------<br><div>2)<br>Date: 15 April 2011<br>From: dil parkinson <<a href="mailto:dil@byu.edu">dil@byu.edu</a>><br>Subject: Study Abroad with Travel Advisories Response<br></div><div><br></div><div>BYU's program, which was scheduled to go to Cairo in the Fall, was 'forced' by our administration to change to Jordan because of the travel advisory. I am sure that there are many universities that are very sensitive to sending students to places with travel advisories. The problem is that doing so sets up the university to be sued, and one of the main reasons that university lawyers exist is to protect them from being sued. This means that the judgement of the faculty (as to whether a place is 'really' safe or not) is not really taken into consideration in questions like these: it is simply a matter of the university protecting itself from financial disaster.</div><div>dil</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>--------------------------------------------------------------------------<br>End of Arabic-L: 15 April 2011</div></div></div></body></html>