http://www.metafilter.com/tags/semesteratsea Posts tagged with 'semesteratsea' at MetaFilter. Sat, 14 Jun 2008 21:07:37 -0800 Sat, 14 Jun 2008 21:07:37 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/72525/Floating%2Duniversity%2Dmoored <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Scholar_Ship">The Scholar Ship</a> , an international floating university stewarded by top universities in <a href="http://www.aui.ma/">Morocco</a>, the <a href="http://www.cardiff.ac.uk/index.html">United Kingdom</a>, <a href="http://www.fudan.edu.cn/englishnew/">China</a>, <a href="http://www.mq.edu.au/">Australia</a>, <a href="http://cmportal.itesm.mx/wps/portal">Mexico</a>, <a href="http://www.berkeley.edu/">USA</a>, and <a href="http://www.ug.edu.gh/">Ghana</a>, have <a href="http://thescholarship.com">temporarily suspended all voyages</a> due to lack of funds - mainly caused by the withdrawal of main sponsor and initiator <a href="http://www.royalcaribbean.com/allaboutcruising/higherLearning.do">Royal Caribbean International</a>. The program ran two voyages in <a href="http://www.thescholarship.com/voyages/voyage_details.aspx?id=1">2007</a> and <a href="http://www.thescholarship.com/voyages/voyage_details.aspx?id=2">2008</a> before shutdown. Alumni and prospective students on <a href="http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=19850106540">Facebook</a> and <a href="http://thescholarship.ning.com/">Ning</a> are busily sourcing options to revive the organization, while <a href="http://www.semesteratsea.org/news-and-events/press-releases/accepting-student-applications-from-the-scholar-ship.php">Semester at Sea is offering spaces</a> to students who were accepted for the now-cancelled voyages. This is reminiscent of 2000, when global education non-profit <a href="http://upwithpeople.org">Up with People</a> were also <a href="http://archives.cnn.com/2000/SHOWBIZ/Arts/12/07/up.with.people.ap/">forced to shut down due to lack of funds</a>. Efforts from <a href="Http://uwpiaa.org">UWP alumni and supporters</a> allowed for its reform as the <a href="http://www.accessmylibrary.com/coms2/summary_0286-23623583_ITM">WorldSmart Leadership Program</a> in 2003, before returning to its original performance-based roots in 2006. Will the alumni of The Scholar Ship be as successful in bringing back their beloved experiences? How does this reflect on the finances of international education programs in general, when the pullout of a major backer can spell life or death for the organization? tag:metafilter.com,2008:site.72525 Sat, 14 Jun 2008 21:07:37 -0800 alumni economics education efforts finance financialcrises floatinguniversity global international scholarship semesteratsea shutdown sponsors student thescholarship university upwithpeople divabat