Weekend Wrapup

NPR's Legal Affairs, August 17: Lender Inquiry Turns to Study-Abroad Deals

InsideHigherEd.com, August 20: The Middlemen of Study Abroad

"Colleges have taken very different approaches to their relationships with these outside providers, says Brian Whalen, president and chief executive officer of the Forum on Education Abroad, a group of 250 colleges that has created standards of good practice for study abroad programs. Some that have made strong investments in study abroad have done so largely through working with provider organizations, while others have preferred to either establish a large number of their own programs or directly work with universities abroad. 'It's complex,' says Whalen, 'in terms of where a college or university should put its resources.'"