The
Safety & Responsibility Committee* of the Indiana University
Overseas Study Advisory Council has lifted the suspension of
study for IU School of Medicine students in Kenya as of April,
2008. The program was suspended in January, 2008, because of
violence that followed the presidential election in Kenya.
Student participants of the IU School of Medicine program will
be required to sign a special waiver that University Legal
Counsel has designed for the program given the special
permission for this program to operate in a country for which
there is a U.S. Department of State Travel Warning in effect.
Indiana University reserves the right to revisit the decision to
allow the aforementioned program to continue should there be a
change of conditions in Kenya.
*The Committee comprises Larry Stephens, Director of Risk
Management at Indiana University; Joseph Hoffmann, Harry Pratter
Professor of Law, IUB; Susan Sutton, Associate Vice President
for International Affairs and Associate Vice Chancellor for
International Affairs at IUPUI and Chancellor's Professor of
Anthropology; and Bonnie Brownlee, Associate Dean for
Undergraduate Studies of the School of Journalism. Kathleen
Sideli, Associate Vice President for Overseas Study, chairs the
Committee on behalf of IU's system-wide Overseas Study Advisory
Council. Susan Carty, Director of Program Management and
Administration of the Office of Overseas Study, and Patrick
O'Meara, Vice President for International Affairs, participated
in the deliberations.