The Pre-Law Committee counsels and assists Le Moyne students and alumni who are interested in pursuing careers in the legal progression. The committee provides information on law school, sponsors visits from law school admissions personnel, conducts informational meetings for Le Moyne students and prepares an official College letter of recommendation on behalf of each applicant who requests one. Further information about the committee and its services may be obtained from the director of the committee.

The Health Professions Advisory Committee functions to advise and assist students interested in pursuing careers in the health professions. The committee chair serves as an information source and as the principal adviser for those interested in professional fields such as dentistry, medicine, optometry, podiatry, veterinary medicine and other allied health care fields. The chair furnishes general information regarding professional school admission requirements and entrance examinations and also conducts informational meetings for prospective applicants to professional schools. For those applicants who so choose, the members of the committee evaluate undergraduate credentials and formulate official College letters of recommendation. The committee also assists students enrolled in the different affiliation programs between Le Moyne College and health-profession schools (refer to pages 242-246 for descriptions of these programs). Further information regarding the committee and its functions may be obtained from the chair of the committee.

Designed to assist students from educationally under-prepared and economically disadvantaged circumstances, HEOP provides its students with both financial and academic assistance to facilitate their success at Le Moyne. The academic support services program includes a five-week summer session for pre-freshmen as well as special skill-development courses during the regular academic year. Students in the program may also avail themselves of either group or individual tutoring sessions. In addition, the program attempts to provide its students with counseling and academic advisement sufficient to meet their personal needs.

The AHANA (African-American, Hispanic, Asian, and Native American) Program was established to enable Le Moyne to expand its enrollment of students of color. AHANA students are required to participate in a structured academic support program which includes a five-week pre-freshman summer program and study sessions throughout the academic year.

Many departments and programs of the College maintain affiliations with businesses, government offices and social service agencies. For example, the Political Science Department offers semester-long internships in Washington, D.C., and Albany, N.Y., which are open to all majors and allow students to integrate classroom education with appropriate learning experiences in a non-academic setting. Grades for internships are High Pass (HP), Pass (P), Fail (F). Interested students should apply to the chair of the department in which the internship is desired and should obtain a copy of the rules and regulations governing internships at the Registrar's Office.

The Syracuse Consortium for the Cultural Foundations of Medicine (SCCFM), a cooperative program that includes Le Moyne College, the State University of New York (SUNY) Health Science Center at Syracuse and Syracuse University, offers courses each semester in cultural foundations of medical theory and practice from the viewpoint of varied academic disciplines. Faculty members are from the cooperating institutions.

SCCFM courses are open to upper-division undergraduates, graduate students and faculty from the three institutions and to members of the public with a bachelor's degree. Each course is worth three credits and is limited to a maximum number of 10 students from each institution. Permission of the instructor is required.

The Values Program at Le Moyne engages the College community in a campus-wide education effort designed to discover and implement ways to help students heighten their awareness of values issues, develop a comprehensive framework for addressing these issues and strengthening their moral courage to act on their principles.

The Values Program was initiated in 1985 when a small group of faculty and administrators began to study how to help students integrate the liberal arts and the Jesuit tradition into their major professional fields. Today it is acclaimed both nationally and internationally.

The program conducts summer institutes for faculty and staff from Le Moyne and other institutions, coordinates a comprehensive series of co-curricular activities around a common theme every other year, and carries out original research on values education effectiveness. Those seeking more information should contact the director of the Values Program.

Students at Le Moyne College may take reserve officer training through the Department of Military Science and the Department of Aerospace Studies at Syracuse University. Both the Army program in military science and the Air Force program in aerospace studies have a basic course generally taken in the freshman and sophomore years and an advanced course taken in the junior and senior years. Upon award of a bachelor's degree, students who have successfully completed advanced course requirements become commissioned second lieutenants in the United States Army or the United States Air Force. Admission to the advanced course normally is contingent upon successful completion of the Army or the Air Force freshman and sophomore courses, a satisfactory physical profile and demonstration of academic proficiency and leadership potential. Under certain conditions, however, students who have not completed the basic course may apply during their sophomore year for the advanced course and compete for entry into advanced ROTC at the fall registration of the junior year.

Those interested in these programs should inquire at the appropriate Syracuse University ROTC office for more information and application forms.

Qualified Le Moyne College students may study abroad on a variety of approved programs. In recent semesters Le Moyne students have received credit for programs they have attended in Australia, Austria, Belgium, Britain, Costa Rica, Czechoslovakia, France, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Mexico, South Africa, Spain and Turkey. Programs are available to suit the requirements of almost every major. Some require fluency in a foreign language, but many, including some in non-English speaking countries, do not.

Le Moyne College is specifically affiliated with the study abroad program at Essex University in England, and The University of New South Wales and may operate through other colleges and universities in the United States or directly through foreign colleges or universities. Information and applications are available from the assistant academic vice president.

Approval of the application requires the recommendation of the chair of the student's major department as well as the assistant academic vice president. In most cases, students plan their foreign-study programs for their junior year. However, it is possible to go abroad in any year as long as the student plans far enough in advance to avoid scheduling problems.