To the Editor:
I was very excited to read The Herald's article on Study Away options in the United States. As a senior who spent a semester in New York through Brown's Urban Education Semester program, I know how valuable it can be to live and work in another part of the country, an experience that has been glossed over as more and more students choose to spend time abroad. However, I was surprised that the article neglected to mention that Brown has several partnerships and programs for students to study at other U.S. institutions. Among these are the Urban Education Semester, where students take graduate classes at Bank Street College of Education while working in schools or policy settings, and the Brown-Tougaloo exchange, which was started in the midst of the Civil Rights movement and continues to offer Brown students the opportunity to study at Tougaloo, a historically black college in Jackson, Miss. I work at the Curricular Resource Center in Faunce as the study away coordinator, and just wanted to put it out there that there are many ways to spend time away, and that Brown has programs in place to support students who choose to do so.
Amina Sheikh '11
