Princeton to offer "bridge year' to incoming students

[Harold F. Schiffman]

February 19, 2008
Princeton Will Offer a 'Bridge Year' to Incoming Freshmen

Princeton University is preparing to offer incoming freshmen the
opportunity to spend a bridge year doing service work abroad before
beginning college. The university has established a working group to
determine details of the plan, which would send as much as 10 percent of
each incoming class overseas tuition-free and with financial support.

The goals of the program are to enrich students international perspective,
help other countries, and give students a break from academic pressures.
The time abroad would be focused on service, not academic work.

The working group is to share its recommendations for the program early
this summer.Beckie Supiano
***********************************************************************************

N.b.: Listing on the lgpolicy-list is merely intended as a service to its members
and implies neither approval, confirmation nor agreement by the owner or sponsor of
the list as to the veracity of a message's contents. Members who disagree with a
message are encouraged to post a rebuttal.

***********************************************************************************

http://chronicle.com/news/article/3986/princeton-will-offer-a-bridge-year-to-incoming-freshmen