Are Study Abroad and Tourism the Same Thing?

Thursday’s “Tourism & Study Abroad: Problematics and Paradoxes” panel encouraged viewing study abroad as an empathy-driven cultural immersion—not a tourist trip. It began with a short documentary, “Framing the Other,” in which a Dutch tourist travels to the basin of the Omo River in the East African state of Ethiopia and takes pictures of the Mursi tribe in exchange for money. Mursi women are known for […]

Red Raiders Around the World

After receiving an email offering scholarship money to foreign students who wanted to study abroad at Texas Tech, Linus Pohler, from Wilhelmshaven, Germany,  figured studying at Tech would be a great opportunity, and applied. “Texas Tech is pretty great, and Texas is pretty great,” said Pohler, a senior studying mechanical engineering at Tech. “I’m having lots […]

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