Program Details

Note: The NYSICCSI is on hiatus for 2012. There will not be a NYSICCSI sponsored program in the Fall of 2012, while consortium members work to restructure, and improve the program. Students will still have an opportunity to study in India through St. Lawrence, through another provider program. For more information on this please contact Drew Pynchon (apynchon@stlawu.edu). 

Four colleges -- Hamilton, Colgate, Hobart and William Smith and St. Lawrence - form the New York State Independent College Consortium for Study in India (NYSICCSI). NYSICCSI offers a rich and rigorous program designed to introduce college students to the great geographic and cultural diversity of northern India during the fall semester. 

The program is directed by a faculty director from one of the NYSICCSI colleges, who accompanies the students in India. The faculty director oversees the curriculum, including the content and staffing of the courses taught by Indian nationals. The faculty director is accompanied and assisted by an assistant director whose qualifications complement those of the faculty director. The faculty director for the fall 2009 program was Professor Sheila Bennett of Hobart and William Simth Colleges.  Lisa Trivedi of Hamilton College will be directing the fall 2010 program.