The October 7 edition of the Houghton Star incorrectly reported the semester in Tanzania program would be changed to run biannual.
According to Marcus Dean, Director of Off Campus Studies, the semester abroad will only be halted for the spring semester of 2017. Dean stated his intentions to continue the program in the Spring of 2018, “It will resume in 2018 with full intentions to continue to offer the Tanzania semester every year.”
There were many factors that went into the decision to halt the program for a semester, Dean said. One of those factors was low enrollment “at the time of the decision.” Dean continued, “We felt it in the best interest of students to make the decision during the summer not to run the Spring 2017 semester to give students plenty of time to choose another option if they desired to do that.”
Dean also hopes to improve upon the popular semester during the semester’s break. He said, “We do hope that by waiting a year we will be able to make the program better in the future.”
Additionally, Dean said, there was no discussion of eliminating entirely, and stated, “It is our full intention to continue to offer the Tanzania semester.“
