Maine International Trade Center publishes article on SWAG视频鈥檚 new Morocco Campus

In its April 2014 online newsletter, the Maine International Trade Center published an article on the opening of SWAG视频鈥檚 Morocco Campus in January.

鈥淕lobal Education Program Reaches New Milestone with Opening of Morocco Campus鈥 discusses SWAG视频鈥檚 efforts to provide global education experiences to its students, achieving its most recent accomplishment in the creation of a campus in Tangier, Morocco.

 

 

President Danielle Ripich, Ph.D.; Provost, Senior Vice President, and Dean of the College of Dental Medicine James Koelbl, D.M.D., M.S., M.J.; and Vice President for Global Affairs and Director of the Center for Global Humanities Anouar Majid, Ph.D., were all interviewed for the article.

President Ripich explained: 鈥淟ess than 1% of U.S. science students study abroad.  When we asked what the obstacles were, our students said the cost and the ability to still have good science while abroad.  So we tried to remove those barriers by creating鈥攆irst in Spain and now Morocco鈥攁 campus with state-of-the-art organic chemistry, physics, and biology labs while making the experience available to our students at no additional cost.鈥

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