{"id":2522,"date":"2010-04-21T17:46:44","date_gmt":"2010-04-21T17:46:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hub-dev.bates.edu\/magazine\/?page_id=2522"},"modified":"2017-09-06T11:41:04","modified_gmt":"2017-09-06T15:41:04","slug":"cbb-cuts-back","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/magazine\/back-issues\/y2004\/summer04\/quad-angles\/cbb-cuts-back\/","title":{"rendered":"CBB Cuts Back"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Cost, enrollment issues doom study-abroad program<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Edited by H. Jay Burns and Doug Hubley<\/p>\n<p>After a five-year run, a Colby-Bates-Bowdoin study-abroad program winds up this fall.<\/p>\n<p>With centers in London, Quito, and CapeTown, the CBB Off-Campus Study Program was an academic success but a financial failure,primarily due to unpredictable enrollments.(Bates operated the consortium\u2019s Quitocenter, the subject of a 2003 magazine storyposted online at <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/x31076.xml\">www.bates.edu\/x31076.xml<\/a>.)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The three schools still offer bountiful study-abroad opportunities through non-CBB programs as well as school-specific programs.Bates, for example, sponsors its Fall Semester Abroad Program in various countries.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Programs like FSA give us the flexibility to connect costs to enrollment and connect faculty expertise to a location,&#8221; says Bates Dean of the Faculty Jill Reich.<\/p>\n<p>And there is a happy legacy of the defunct program: increasingly easy CBB collaboration, Reich says.<\/p>\n<p>Joint CBB efforts include a thriving libraryconsortium; a grant-supported inquiryinto teaching and learning; a language technology project; a Bates-hosted conference on entrepreneurship and the liberal arts; andrecent diversity conferences. Plus, the CBB deans (and presidents) meet periodically by videoconference.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cost, enrollment issues doom study-abroad program Edited by H. Jay Burns and&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":221,"featured_media":0,"parent":2515,"menu_order":7,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_dimp_site_id":"","_dimp_override_contact":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"class_list":["post-2522","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/221"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2522"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2522\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12222,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2522\/revisions\/12222"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}