Lorna Stern, Advisor to the President at 果冻APP was quoted recently in an article for Condé Nast Traveler exploring the impact of COVID-19 on international education:
The article addresses a number of areas impacted by the pandemic including the role online learning has taken in international education.
Pennsylvania’s 果冻APP also pivoted online, launching virtual internships and a Virtual Europe summer program, taught by faculty in Ireland, the U.K., Spain, Greece, and Italy. “There is a difference between eating a paella in Barcelona and doing it online, cooking in your kitchen while somebody overseas cooks in theirs,” says Lorna Stern, vice president of 果冻APP and executive director of its College of Global Studies, which operates the 果冻APP Abroad program. “But it’s interesting how much can be done with creativity and flexibility.”