Responsibility Abroad

Although study abroad can be one of the most rewarding of educational and cultural experiences, participation in a study-abroad program involves risks not found at the home institution and for which PMCSP is not liable. These include risks in traveling to and within, and returning from, international locations; foreign political, legal, social, and economic conditions; different standards of design, safety, and maintenance of buildings, public places, and conveyances; and local medical and weather conditions. PMCSP does not act as an agent for, and cannot control the acts or omissions of, its host institution, the Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, host families, transportation carriers, hotels or other providers of services involved with the program.

Although a faculty member of one of the PMCSP consortium colleges or other U.S. college or university is the resident director, the students in the Program are responsible for their personal safety at all times, especially when not in class and not on program-sponsored trips. Students in the program must assume an important personal obligation to conduct themselves in a manner compatible with the program and its reputation, with local laws and regulations, and with the regulations for student conduct at their home institution. It is expected that students in the program will act responsibly in a way that is not deemed reckless or inappropriate by the program and will agree to take the advice of the resident director regarding personal conduct.

It is the student's responsibility to become aware of all local laws. PMCSP cannot be made responsible for a student who breaks the law nor can it defend a student in court. The resident director retains the right to return a student to the U.S. if he/she feels that the student poses a threat to his/her own safety or that of other participants, or if his/her behavior is in gross violation of program policies.

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