The College's new Term Abroad in Kenya got off to an auspicious start when fifty-five students applied for the twelve available spots.
The new Term Abroad will start in the fall at the University of Nairobi. The university is the primary public institution in Kenya, with 22,000 undergraduate and graduate students in law, art and social sciences, medicine, agriculture, and engineering.
Randolph Quaye, assistant professor of sociology and anthropology, will be the faculty member in residence for the program.
About forty-five percent of the College's students take part in the Terms Abroad program at some point. The College offers terms in Austria, Brazil, China, England, France, Germany, Greece, Israel, Italy, Japan, Mexico, and Spain as well as a Marine Term Abroad and a summer Study of Nationalized Health Systems in several European countries.
The College also will expand its exchange program next fall when it begins a program with preference for engineering students at the University College of Swansea in Wales.
The program will send six students to the Wales university. The Union students will take three courses from the Swansea catalog.
Swansea, which has about 6,000 undergraduates, offers civil, electrical, and mechanical engineering.
Union has exchange programs with universities in Switzerland, Germany, Japan, China, and the former Soviet Union.