<p>[Princeton</a> University - Tilghman names working group to explore creation of international ‘bridge year’ program](<a href=“http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S20/33/53G33/index.xml?section=topstories]Princeton”>http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S20/33/53G33/index.xml?section=topstories)</p>
<p>Princeton President Shirley M. Tilghman has appointed a working group to explore the creation of a “bridge year” program that would allow newly admitted undergraduates to spend a year of public service abroad before beginning their freshman year. The program would enable students to pursue a tuition-free, pre-collegiate enrichment year outside their home country with support from the University. </p>
<p>In their charge to the working group, Tilghman, Eisgruber and Malkiel said a successful bridge year program would benefit students in four ways:</p>
<li> It would enable them to develop an international perspective; </li>
<li> It would provide an opportunity to support the University’s unofficial motto of being “in the nation’s service and in the service of all nations”; </li>
<li> It would give students a break from the academic pressure that now dominates the lives of successful high school students; and </li>
<li> It would prepare students for a more meaningful Princeton experience.<br></li>
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<p>This would create a new Princeton-subsidized year abroad opportunity for all students.</p>