<div dir="ltr">Hi Rob,<div><br></div><div>My university has placed a university-wide moratorium on any school sponsored travel to China and South Korea for students as well as faculty and staff for an indefinite period. Georgetown has also been more quietly cancelling institutionally sponsored trips to other destinations (Japan, etc.). I am scheduled to lead an international study tour to Qatar over spring break, but I've already been given a heads up that it will likely be cancelled and that I should start thinking about alternative delivery methods. </div><div><br></div><div>With that said, at least with shorter study trips such as the one I was going to lead, the students will be given an option to withdraw from the course or continue with the course through an alternative delivery, which I'm now expected to lead. I anticipate most students will continue with the course since withdrawing will affect their graduation timeline. I'm planning to set up a series of Zoom chats with our Doha-based guest speakers and various online learning activities to make up for the week we would have had abroad.</div><div><br></div><div>I understand that many Korean universities are offering their classes online due to the outbreak. Perhaps this might be a potential alternative to forcing all students to withdraw for the semester?</div><div><br></div><div>Stephanie</div><div><br></div><div><br><div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><b><br></b></div><div dir="ltr"><b>Stephanie K. Kim</b><br></div><div dir="ltr">Assistant Professor of the Practice<br>Faculty Director of Higher Education Administration<br>Georgetown University School of Continuing Studies<br>640 Massachusetts Avenue NW</div><div dir="ltr">Washington, DC 20001<br>Office: 202.784.2731 </div><div dir="ltr">Email: <a href="mailto:stephanie.kim@georgetown.edu" target="_blank">stephanie.kim@georgetown.edu</a> </div><div dir="ltr">Visit: <a href="https://gufaculty360.georgetown.edu/s/contact/0033600001SxHXVAA3/stephanie-kim" target="_blank">GU360 faculty page</a></div><div dir="ltr"><div><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br></div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Feb 28, 2020 at 8:42 PM Robert M Oppenheim <<a href="mailto:rmo@austin.utexas.edu">rmo@austin.utexas.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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The University of Texas at Austin is one of the North American universities that cancelled Spring 2020 undergraduate study abroad in S. Korea a few days ago, and recalled all undergraduate students already there. Because of where we already are almost halfway
through the Spring 2020 semester here in Austin, the affected students are not being allowed to register for replacement UT courses. They are, instead, being required to withdraw for the semester, and actually must apply for readmission to the university
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While I suspect that the situation is roughly the same at other semester-system universities that have recalled their Korean study abroad students, I am curious if there are exceptions or better alternatives in the works elsewhere.</div>
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