Lehigh Launch, a program that sends first-years abroad during their first semester, will end after this year, according to an email sent to students who have participated in the program.
The program was advertised on a webpage, which has since been removed, as an “experimental, integrative learning experience” for incoming students. According to the email sent to Launch alumni, “the program’s model proved difficult to sustain long-term due to its intensive structure.”
Over the past five years, the Lehigh Launch program has sent five groups of students to the American West and four groups to Latin America, with the final cohort studying abroad this fall in Chile…