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Mansfield’s Visiting Student Programme, 2019/20
Helen Lacey, Director of the Visiting Student Programme (VSP) at Mansfield, outlines the progress made in the past year, including new ways of working and distance learning.
This year everyone was forced to confront a ‘new normal’ as the pandemic situation unfolded in Hilary term 2020. Our visiting students had the added challenge of being overseas from their families and support networks. They all responded superbly, making arrangements to travel home and adapting to remote tutorials and online working.
Despite our students needing to juggle time zones and work with online resources, Trinity term was a real success. Our sincere thanks go out to Jacob Kaufhold (Dickinson College), the VSP student representative, and to all the visiting students, for their dedication and resilience in the face of such uncertainty.
Our visiting students did not let the upheaval stop them achieving academic excellence. Prizes were awarded to Kelli Powers (Boston College), Xinxian Wang (Washington and Lee University) and the overall prize went to Katherine Franco (Kenyon College).
Arrangements for the class of 2020/21 look a bit different, with new social-distancing protocols in place, but we are confident that the incoming students will adapt quickly and enjoy the new experience of life in Mansfield and Oxford. This year we have students joining us from: Barnard College, Boston College, Brown University, Case Western Reserve, College of the Holy Cross, Cornell University, DePauw University, Dickinson College, East China University of Science and Technology, Fudan University, Georgetown University, Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, Haverford College, Kenyon College, Nanjing University, Santa Clara University, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen University, University of Pennsylvania, University of Toronto, Washington and Lee University, Washington University in St Louis, Xiamen University, Xi’an Jiaotong University, and Yale-NUS College.
The new admissions round for the 2021/22 academic year is soon to open and we look forward to another successful year.
We would love to hear from our visiting student alumni about what they are doing now. Do drop us an email with any news: vsp@mansfield.ox.ac.uk.
Dr Helen Lacey became Director of the Visiting Student Programme in Trinity term 2014. She is Supernumerary Fellow in Late Medieval History at Mansfield, and is Co- Investigator on a major project entitled The People of 1381 (www.1381.online).
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