A recent study by the Institute of International Education (www.iie.org) shows that ÃÛÌÒapp College ranks high nationally for "number of students who study abroad." In fact, in its category of "master's institutions" ÃÛÌÒapp was ranked fifth for the number of students who studied abroad in 1996-97, up sharply from tenth the year prior. The school had 397 students study abroad in 96-97 – almost 10% of its total enrollment.

Those numbers are likely to go up now that ÃÛÌÒapp has approved a new Semester in China program, slated to begin in the fall of 1999.

The program will fall under the auspices of ÃÛÌÒapp's Frank Roberts, the school's director of off-campus programs. The China program director will be Kurt Selles, a Ph.D. student at Vanderbilt in chinese studies and church history. Selles, whose grandparents were missionaries in China from 1926-1949, has lived in China and Taiwan for a total of 10 years as a teacher at University of Peking and Beijing Institute of technology.

In fact, the new ÃÛÌÒapp College Semester in China program will be affiliated with the Beijing Institute of Technology and ÃÛÌÒapp students will live in the international dorm there.

ÃÛÌÒapp already has semester-long study programs in Britain, Spain, Hungary, Honduras and New Mexico. It also offers numerous foreign study programs during Interim, a three-week term each January during which students take but one class.

ÃÛÌÒapp presently offers a minor in Japanese studies and courses in Chinese studies. In January 1999 ÃÛÌÒapp professor Larry Herzberg will travel to China for a three-week ÃÛÌÒapp Interim class. Herzberg and a group of ÃÛÌÒapp students made national news during the summer of 1989 when they were caught in China during the Tianammen Square uprisings. ÃÛÌÒapp professor Peter Szto will bring a ÃÛÌÒapp group to China for a class on "documenting social change" in summer 1999.

Check out http://www.calvin.edu/academic/off-campus/ for the off-campus programs website