May 99 Newsletter Page 1 May 1999, Volume 31 Students who are planning to study abroad during the 2000-01 academic year are encouraged to visit the Office of International Programs early in the Fall semester 1999 to check on application deadlines.
Deadlines are often at least a year in advance of when a student wishes to study abroad.
Applications for the new exchange with the Universidad Pontificia Cat lica de Chile are due October 1. In mid-April, President Dennison joined a delegation of UM administrators to Japan, visiting Toyo, Sophia, and Meisei Universities in Tokyo, in the company of Jim Flightner , Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, Mark Lusk , Assistant VP for Research, Phil West , Director of the Mansfield Center, and Robert Hausmann , Chair of the Linguistics Program and Director of the English Language Institute. The exchange agreement with Zhejiang was due for renewal. As the President returned from this trip after the newsletter had gone to press, details concerning the results of negotiations during the trip to Asia will be covered in the October issue. In June, President and Mrs. Dennison will travel to Germany to participate in the alumni and sister city activities scheduled for mid-June in Neckargemund and Heidelberg.