Regarding Payment of Monies (program fee, tuition, and mandatory GIT fees):
The initial $500 deposit (which is part of the Program Fee) must be submitted along with the completed application to the Office of International Education:
Office of International Education
Georgia Institute of Technology
631 Cherry Street, Savant Building Suite 211
Atlanta, GA 30332-0284
Fax: 404-894-9682
Questions regarding payment or registration should be addressed to:
Ms. Stephanie Jackson
Phone: 404-894-0342
Email: stephanie.jackson@inta.gatech.edu
Filing the initial $500 deposit and completed Program application puts the applicant in the OIE system which leads to their being informed of various informational sessions, plus registration and payments deadlines for all Georgia Tech overseas program participants.
All subsequent payments of program fees, Georgia Tech tuition, and mandatory Georgia Tech fees should go directly to the Georgia Tech Bursar via secure access on the Georgia Tech Web Access System, the URL of which is: http://oscar.gatech.edu
To access this Georgia Tech Web Access System students will need a Georgia Tech user ID and a personal identification number registered with the Tech webmaster. These will be issued by the Office of International Education.
Deadlines:
The deadline for application to the program is: 30 January 2008
The deadline for full payment of the Program Fee is: 28 February 2008
Registration for Summer 2007 courses:
Phase I registration: 28 March - 8 April 2008
Phase II registration: 10-18 May 2007
The Bursar’s deadline for full payment of all tuition is: 11 May 2008. Should tuition not be paid in full by that time, the student is subject to being dropped from the program and sent home --- this according to the Georgia Tech Bursar’s rules.
Checks should be made payable to “Georgia Institute of Technology” with the student’s name and “East Asia program” indicated on the check.
Registration for Courses:
In addition to applying for the East Asia Program, students will need to register themselves for the two courses constitution the East Asia Program once they are accepted into the Program. The two courses constitution the East Asia Program are:
INTA 4803 JGD / INTA 8803 JGD: Political Development of East Asia
INTA 4803 JGE / INTA 8803 JGE: Political Development of East Asia
Registration for these two courses is the students responsibility and must be done via the Georgia Tech Registrar’s on-line system whose URL is: http://oscar.gatech.edu
Important
Program participants should make every effort to register during Phase I. Phase II registration will occur after the program group has already left for Asia, and registration during Phase II will be extremely cumbersome. If you encounter problems registering during Phase I, solve them at that point; do not let them slide in expectation of solving them later, during Phase II. If you encounter problems registering for the two courses constituting the program, please contact
Mr. Vince Pedicino
Phone: 404-894-1905
Email: vince.pedicino@inta.gatech.edu
Registration of Non-Georgia Tech Students for Program
Non Georgia Tech students who are regular students at other universities are welcome to participate in the program, but will need to apply and be admitted to Georgia Tech as a “transient student” for the term that they will study abroad. For instructions on this process to to: http://www.oie.gatech.edu/transient
Note that non-Georgia Tech students will thus need to apply twice --- once to the East Asia program, and once to Georgia Tech for admission as a transient student. These two processes are independent, are the responsibility of the student, and both are required. Non-Georgia Tech students will also need to register for the two INTA courses constituting the East Asia program, and should note that the Registrar’s deadline for application for the Summer 2007 session is 1 March 2007 (check?). This is a hard deadline. Students who do not complete all transient student application forms and processes by that point, will not be allowed to participate in the East Asia program, even if they have completed the East Asia Program application form.
Problems with Payment or Registration
Problems with payments to the Bursar or registration with the Registrar should be addressed to Ms Anna Rosa Covaria in the Office of International Education. Her phone number is 404-385-0483 and her email address is anarosa.covaria@oie.gatech.edu
Orientation Sessions:
Georgia Tech students are required to attend one of several orientation sessions held by the Office of International Education during the Spring 2007 semester. They will be notified by the OIE of the time and place of these sessions, and their attendance passed on to the Program director. Students at Atlanta-area colleges and universities other than Georgia Tech are encouraged to attend an orientation session if possible. Out-of-area university students will be emailed material from the orientations sessions and are strongly encouraged to review it.
A schedule of OIE orientation sessions is available at http://www.oie.gatech.edu/events/index.html
Penality for Withdrawal from the Program:
If a student withdraws his/ her application after having submitted it to OIE and paid the $500 deposit, there will be a $250 penalty for subsequent withdrawal from the program before departure. In other words, only $250 of the $500 deposit will be refunded to the student.
If a student withdraws or is expelled from the program for serious cause once the program is overseas, such monies will be refunded to the student after the conclusion of the program and return of the director to Atlanta as can be retrieved by the Program. Some expenses are fixed and others cannot be cancelled, and that portion of the program fee will not be refunded. Other expenses are based on a per student / program participant basis and can be refunded, and those monies will be refunded, once the program is finished.
Program Discipline and Expulsion:
Program participants will be expected to conform with the Georgia Tech code of conduct.
Program participants will be expected to be polite toward other members of the group --- even toward members they may come to dislike. They will also be expected to be polite and respectful toward people in the Asian countries we visit --- even while struggling to come to terms with very different ways of living and thinking. Fighting, repeated use of profanity or racial or ethnic slurs, or drunkenness may constitute grounds for expulsion from the program once overseas. Such an extreme action would be done in consultation with Georgia Tech’s Office of International Education and the Dean of Student Affairs.
Program participants are also subject to the Georgia Tech honor code which may be accessed at : http://www.deanofstudents.gatech.edu/Honor/honorcode.txt |
