Missing the Boat :The Failure to Internationalize American Higher Education

Publication subTitle :The Failure to Internationalize American Higher Education

Author: Craufurd D. Goodwin; Michael Nacht  

Publisher: Cambridge University Press‎

Publication year: 2009

E-ISBN: 9781139242837

P-ISBN(Paperback): 9780521100724

Subject: G4 Education

Keyword: 教育

Language: ENG

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Missing the Boat

Description

For many faculty the desire and need to go abroad is inherent in the nature of their discipline. For others the thought of going abroad for scholarly purposes is completely alien. This book, which was sponsored by the Council for International Exchange of Scholars, looks in depth at the international experience of American faculty. Goodwin and Nacht examine the type of faculty who go abroad and their reasons for doing so, the incentives and the disincentives for faculty travel abroad, the attitudes prevalent on US campuses toward such activities, the special obstacles and risks faced by faculty who commit themselves to an international experience and the effects of foreign experience among the faculty on the internationalisation of US campuses. In preparing the book, the authors conducted extensive interviews with faculty at thirty-seven institutions of higher education.

Chapter

1. Higher education looks abroad: historical trends

Postgraduate training and the grand tour

The watershed of war

New styles of academic travel

From colony to empire and back to something in between

2. Who goes today? and who does not?

Area studies

Study abroad programs for students

Development assistance

"International" disciplines and subdisciplines

The sciences

1. Field work

2. Collaboration and machines

3. Recharging the batteries

4. Getting the answers overseas

Pursuit of personal goals

Scholars who just say 'No'

1. Know-it-alls

2. Lab-bound scientists

3. Methodologically sophisticated social scientists

4. Some recent immigrants

5. The timid and the meek

6. Domestically oriented applied disciplines

3. Individual costs and benefits

Personal costs

1. Health and safety

2. Finances

3. Family complications

Professional costs

1. Promotion and tenure

2. Other professional detriments

3. Attitudes of colleagues

Professional benefits

1. Data and ideas

2. Teaching improvement

3. The inevitability of unpredictable consequences

4. Luster to the résumé

Personal benefits

1. Self-understanding

2. Family participation

3. A chance to serve

4. A wider horizon

4. Campus attitudes

The central administration

The faculty

Deans and department chairs

Students

External agents

5. Obstacles to international experience

Finding the funding

Institutional rules and practices

Features of the national scene

Conditions overseas

6. Issues for debate

Questions for the campus

1. Does it matter?

2. Planning and implementation - the iron fist or the invisible hand?

3. Rules and regulations

4. What about nonconformists?

Issues at the national level

1. Relationship to national goals

2. Institutional support structures

3. A case for centralized leadership?

4. Should the nation lead the campus?

7. Cases studies

Global Awareness Program of Wheaton College

Bunker Hill Community College

Lewis and Clark College

University of Washington

Colorado School of Mines

8. Epilogue: missing the boat

Conditions facing U.S. academe

The ticket to a smooth passage

Recommendations

1. Institutions of higher education

2. Faculty members

3. Professional associations and accrediting agencies

4. Agencies of government

5. Private and corporate foundations

Appendix: institutions visited

I. Colorado

II. Georgia

III. Massachusetts

IV. Oregon

V. South Carolina

VI. Utah

VII. Washington

Index

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