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| International Education Report - August 2005 - Full Issue … |
| Holding the Fort: The Dilemma of the One-Person Office Li-Chen Chin took a spontaneous poll recently. At a conference presentation she was trying to show how much staff there was to hold down the fort in most university international offices. Three people? Some hands go up. Two? A few more. One? A few more. No staff at all? The majority of hands shot skyward. She’s seen the pattern before. |
| How Kansas Claimed the Simon Award The Senator Paul Simon Award is given by NAFSA each year for “overall excellence in internationalization efforts as evidenced in practices, structures, philosophies, and policies.” The latest school to win the award couldn’t, on the surface, be further from the centers of internationalism. The University of Kansas (KU) is not on a coast or near a great cosmopolitan center. And yet the spirit of internationalism permeates much of the life of the school. Simon said of international education that it would “lift our vision and our responsiveness to the rest of the world.” The University of Kansas has put this idea into action. |
| From the Editor - You can't teach that This summer, as part of the debate over the renewal of the Higher Education Act, the House of Representatives took a fateful step. It had to do with the part of the Act that authorizes programs under Title VI, which offers grants for the study of foreign languages, international and area studies, and international business education, among other things. The House Education and the Workforce Subcommittee on Select Education has drafted a bill that poses an unprecedented challenge to international education. Indeed, to higher education in general. |
| Internationalization: A View from the Developing World Too often, the big issues of international education are seen from just one perspective—our own. American practitioners have acquired an understanding of the international students who come here for graduate degrees. But what about the foreign equivalent of our study abroad students? What about their hopes and expectations, especially those of the students who come from developing countries? We take a keen interest in the internationalizing initiatives at our own schools—what does internationalization look like in a developing country? |
| College-Sponsored Global Education Journal Receives Three-Year Grant A journal edited by Dickinson College (Carlisle, Pa.) administrator Brian Whalen has received a $30,000 grant from the Institute for Study Abroad Foundation (IFSA). The three-year grant will fund special issues of Frontiers: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Study Abroad, the first and leading academic journal for education abroad. |
| U.S. Predicts Issuing More Visas to Chinese Students More Chinese students had applied for and received U.S. visas by mid-June 2005 than they did by the same time last year, Consul General John Morris said during a press conference at the U.S. Embassy in Beijing. |
