Resources - Before You Travel

When studying abroad, it is important to recognize that your health may be affected in unexpected ways. Due to changes in your environment — including time zone, climate, food, and water — even well-managed conditions can be more challenging abroad. Studying abroad, like any transition, can bring about an onset, return, or increase in symptoms.

As you would expect, two individuals studying abroad in the same country on the same program will not have quite the same experience. This sometimes holds especially true for students of color from historically under-represented ethnic or racial backgrounds.

Some students report feeling exhilarated by being outside the American context of race relations; others find different degrees of curiosity about their ethnic background and sometimes experience familiar or new types of separation or exclusion.

To encourage diverse participation in study abroad, which serves as a catalyst for personal and intellectual growth, Hunter College's Education Abroad Office and the Office Student Success and Strategic Initiatives would like to offer a grant intended to support the cost of passport fees for Hunter undergraduate students who would like to study abroad.