International Educator back issues from November 2007:
Recreating Disciplines with a Global Mindset
Nov 01, 2007; ... WE ARE ALL PART OF A GLOBAL VILLAGE. Education is about helping students prepare for their future to reach their greatest potential to benefit themselves and society. Within an increasingly globalized world, disciplines that previously did not embrace an international outlook are starting to ...
Advancing International Education in the States
Nov 01, 2007; ... STATES HAVE LONG BEEN SEEN AS "LABORATORIES OF DEMOCRACY." They are often willing to tackle innovative approaches in meeting the needs of society, particularly when tense partisanship on Capitol Hill prevents federal lawmakers from reaching agreement on issues of national importance. But ...
TIME Highlights Study Abroad Developments
Nov 01, 2007; ... TIME magazine's "Back to Campus" issue, released in August 2007, highlights developments related to education abroad, particularly the Simon Study Abroad Foundation Act, which was passed in June 2007 by the U.S. House of Representatives and was awaiting action in the U.S. Senate as International ...
Internationalization of Higher Education in the Coming Decade
Nov 01, 2007; ... THE FALL/WINTER 2007 issue of the Journal of Studies in International Education (JSIE) is a special 10-year anniversary issue devoted to "Challenges and Opportunities for the Internationalization of Higher Education in the Coming Decade." The expanded issue (Volume 11, No. 3/4) includes ...
Cheney Donates $1.8 Million to Education Abroad
Nov 01, 2007; ... THE UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING (UW) in July 2007 announced a $1.8 million gift from Vice President Dick Cheney and his wife, Lynne, for education abroad. The donation resulted in an endowment dedicated to scholarships supporting study abroad. According to a report in the Casper Star-Tribune, the ...
Podcasts on Bologna Process, International Students, U.S. Study Abroad
Nov 01, 2007; ... SEVERAL INTERVIEWS CONDUCTED during NAFSA's 2007 annual conference in Minneapolis, Minnesota, have been made available via podcast through Boston College's Center for International Higher Education (CIHE). Featured interview subjects include: David Crosier, project director at the European ...
Rise in Foreign Graduate Student Admissions Offers
Nov 01, 2007; ... OFFERS OF ADMISSION to prospective international graduate students have increased, according to a report released in September 2007 by the Council of Graduate Schools. Admission offers rose 8 percent from 2006 to 2007. However, while 2007 is the third consecutive year showing growth in this ...
Iranian-American Scholar Freed from Prison
Nov 01, 2007; ... IRANIAN-AMERICAN scholar Dr. Haleh Esfandiari, director of the Woodrow Wilson Center's Middle East Program, based in Washington, DC, arrived back in the United States on September 6, 2007, after being imprisoned for more than three months in Iran. Esfandiari was incarcerated in May 2007 ...
Study Abroad Task Force to Issue Guidelines
Nov 01, 2007; ... NAFSA IN AUGUST 2007 ESTABLISHED A TASK FORCE comprised of NAFSA members from a variety of institutional types to examine institutional management issues in study abroad and recommend guidelines. The recommendations of the task force will assist senior campus administrators as they shape the ...
New Dimensions of a Kazakh-U.S. Partnership
Nov 01, 2007; ... OVER THE LAST DECADE ALONE, the number of U.S. college students studying abroad has more than doubled, making study abroad a major player in U.S. higher education. Sending American university students overseas to earn the all-important credential of global citizenship has not only become an ...
MASTERING International Development
Nov 01, 2007; ... Helping improve societies around the globe is at the heart of international development graduate programs, which are becoming a greater force in higher education to promote positive change across borders. BY ALAN DESSOFF GRADUATE PROGRAMS in international development, although not new, ...
Preparing Globally Focused Graduates
Nov 01, 2007; ... RONALD A. CRUTCHER IS PRESIDENT OF WHEATON COLLEGE in Norton, Massachusetts. An active musician and scholar, President Crutcher holds a faculty appointment at the college, and he also is a member of the Klemperer Trio, which performs regularly in this country and in Europe. Crutcher is co-chair ...
ENGINEERING THE WORLD
Nov 01, 2007; ... The importance of preparing future engineers to have an international mindset is crucial to their profession as it moves toward a more interculturally collaborative education on a global scale. UNTIL RECENTLY, the humanities and social science fields were the ones primarily focused on ...
The Career Value of Education Abroad
Nov 01, 2007; ... IN 2007 MORE THAN 200,000 STUDENTS WILL STUDY ABROAD. Spending academic time away from the "home institution" increasingly represents a right of passage-so much so that in some colleges like Colby, Dickinson, and St. Olaf, more than 80 percent of students leave the United States for at least a ...
Georgia Tech's Well-Engineered Engagement with the World
Nov 01, 2007; ... GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY President Wayne Clough no doubt was half jesting when he told student radio station WREK an easy way to pronounce his name: "rough, tough, Clough" But it also fit the robust, can-do image of the famed engineering school with the boisterous fight song in the middle ...
An American in China
Nov 01, 2007; ... THE GREAT WALL OF CHINA. Tiananmen Square. Terracotta Warriors. All of these and many other places signify the vast and unique land of China. What pictures, however, represent the educational environment of China? Choice of schools and courses, studying abroad, studententered classes, critical ...
Internationalization Brings Important Benefits as Well as Risks
Nov 01, 2007; ... WHILE THE PROCESS OF INTERNATIONALIZATION AFFORDS many benefits to higher duration, it is clear that there are serious risks associated with this complex and growing phenomenon. According to the results of me 2005 International Association of Universities (IAU) Survey, there is overwhelming ...
Peer Lessons on HIV/AIDS
Nov 01, 2007; ... I BELIEVE that one of the most satisfying experiences for an educator to have is the opportunity to be taught by one of their own students. Like many Peace Corps Volunteers around the world, I continuously tried to incorporate lessons of civics, humanity, and social consciousness into my daily ...