| Individual
Travel Policy (See also Individual Travel Policy) |
NMSU
students who travel alone to
complete requirements for a course,
to conduct field research for
a thesis or dissertation, to attend a
conference with financial support from the university,
to complete a coop assignment in another
country, or for any other activity associated
officially with NMSU, that student is required
to follow NMSU study abroad policy governing:
• enrollment reports
• travel insurance, and
• study abroad orientation .
Individual travel is usually faculty led or supervised activities, whether
for credit or not for credit.
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Enrollment
reports |
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Travel
insurance |
Students
are required to purchase one of the approved
travel insurance policies sold by the Office
of Study Abroad. The policy required depends
upon the length of the program.
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Study
Abroad Orientation |
For
most individual short-term trips,
the faculty member responsible for the trip will
provide the study abroad orientation (with support
from the Office of Study Abroad if requested).
For individual long-term trips (more than 2 weeks),
students are required to complete one of the
WebCT study abroad orientation courses orgnaized
by the Office of Study Abroad. All students are
strongly advised to review the safe
travel advice and returned
students' evaluations sections of the Study
Abroad Web site, which provides lots of information
about safe travel and cultural adjustment.
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Employee
Policy |
Employees
leading or supervising student travel as part
of a regular class (or other University sponsored
international activity such as a professional
conference) are required to inform the University
that currently enrolled NMSU students will be
studying abroad short term or long term by filling
out the Notification Section of the NMSU
Study Abroad Agreement–Resident Student
Travel Programs form and
making sure each students fills out and signs
the participant section.
For distance education for graded credit options, the course instructor
signs off on Section C-International Distance Education Course
Approval of the NMSU Study Abroad Agreement–International
Distance Education form.
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Updated:
Monday, 11-Aug-2008 10:37:58 MDT |
