Health & Safety

The health and safety of our students on First-Year Experience programs is our top priority. We work closely with our travel providers and Education Abroad to prepare our students, faculty, and staff before travel. While abroad, our students have dedicated onsite staff for assistance with all issues that relate to health and safety, in addition to Leeds faculty and staff leaders.

We monitor updates on health and safety issues around the world and follow advisories from U.S. Department of State, the CDC, International SOS, CU Boulder’s International Risk Committee, and our program providers to ensure that our programs can mitigate any health and safety, or security concerns to the best of our ability.

Leeds Global Programs works closely with CU Education Abroad and our program providers (B-School Travel, CIEE, and WorldStrides) to determine if student travel is appropriate. We closely follow the recommendations of the health & safety committees of our partners, in addition to the US Department of State, and Center for Disease Control.

Leeds will make every effort to recover all program-related costs in the event of a program cancellation. Students should refer to the FGX student contract for more details.

The travel provider may still request students provide up-to-date vaccination information before travel. Students who have received a vaccine exemption per CU policy may be required to provide this documentation to the provider.

Leeds Global Programs understands that personal concerns regarding COVID-19 may vary from student to student. If a student chooses to withdraw from FGX, but the program is not canceled, the student will be subject to the terms of the withdrawal policy outlined in the FGX enrollment form. The student may lose the $500 deposit and any additional unrecoverable costs.