Research Catalog

Title

International challenges to American colleges and universities : looking ahead / edited by Katharine H. Hanson and Joel W. Meyerson.

Publication

Phoenix : Oryx Press, 1995.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Hanson, Katharine.
• Meyerson, Joel W., 1951-

Description

xxiii, 149 pages; 24 cm

Summary

International Challenges to American Colleges and Universities: Looking Ahead contains papers presented at a symposium on International Challenges for American Higher Education held in late 1992 at MIT. This important new book identifies and discusses the critical issues facing colleges and universities seeking to "internationalize" the curriculum and design good programs and services for both foreign students in the U.S. and American students abroad. International Challenges to American Colleges and Universities is an enlightening and thought-provoking volume for college and university presidents, administrators, and trustees, as well as policymakers in federal government agencies. This book is a necessary acquisition for all academic libraries

Series Statement

American Council on Education series on higher education

Uniform Title

American Council on Education series on higher education

Subject

• International education > United States > Congresses
• Education, Higher > Aims and objectives > United States > Congresses
• Education, Higher > Aims and objectives
• International education
• Höheres Bildungswesen
• Internationale Kooperation
• Kongress
• Wetenschappelijk onderwijs
• Internationaal onderwijs
• United States
• USA

Genre/Form

• proceedings (reports)
• Conference papers and proceedings
• Conference papers and proceedings.
• Actes de congrès.

Note

• Papers from a symposium held in the fall of 1992 at MIT.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Foreign student flows and the internationalization of higher education / Richard D. Lambert -- Trends in higher education and its finance in Western Europe / Gareth Williams -- Globalization of knowledge / Steven Muller -- Technological change and the university : impacts and opportunities from global change / Lewis Branscomb -- Technology and the role of the universities in a global information economy / Gerhard Friedrich -- Planning for internationalization : experience at the University of Pennsylvania / Michael Aiken -- "Internationalizing" the liberal arts college / Stephen R. Lewis, Jr. -- Responding to international challenges at MIT / Charles Vest -- Next steps to meeting the challenge / Colin Campbell -- International opportunities and challenges for American higher education in Africa, Asia, and Latin America / Fred M. Hayward.

ISBN

• 0897748689
• 9780897748681

LCCN

94030378

OCLC

• ocm30894207
• 30894207
• SCSB-8912089

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library