Msg. #0633 STUDYING IN SEVERAL COUNTRIES
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| Audience/Grade: | -Graduate |
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All Science and Engineering General Engineering, Engineering Science International Engineering Education |
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Richard Reis |
| Description: | "But, more importantly, we need to be much more sensitive to and better-informed about the choices that billions of individuals and thousands of institutions around the globe are making even while, like Candide, we tend to our gardens." Along with the National Teaching and Learning Forum [http://www.ntlf.com/] and the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching [http://www.carnegiefoundation.org}, the Tomorrow's Professor Mailing List is partnered with the American Association for Higher Education (AAHE), [http://www.aahe.org/] to bring you selected periodic postings from the NT&LF newsletter, the CFAT Carnegie Perspectives and now the AAHE periodic Letter from the President by Clara M. Lovett, AAHE president. This posting looks at the importance of being informed about the motivations various students have to undertake higher education when it is available on a global scale. |
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Closing Paragraphs "But, in the 1990s, the situation began to change. Visiting Australia in 1997, for example, I noticed that several universities there had already put in place aggressive strategies to recruit East Asian students. At the same time, highly mobile, polyglot Generation Xers in Europe were putting pressure on their universities, their elected officials, and the notoriously slow European Union bureaucracy to recognize that they were already studying in several countries. And, in developing countries as different from one another as China, India, Malaysia, and Ghana, educators and political leaders looked for ways to provide access to higher education for burgeoning student populations and geographically remote communities. Those leaders understood that the needs of their countries could not be met in the long run by sending small groups of students abroad for study. It appears that in the 1990s we did not pay much attention to these trends. Currently, in American academic circles, we continue to focus on more recent and specific causes of declining enrollments: the impact of the 9/11 attack, of course, and the tightening of immigration policies and procedures that followed the attack. The negative consequences of such traumatic and unpredictable developments need to be addressed and ameliorated when possible. But, more importantly, we need to be much more sensitive to and better-informed about the choices that billions of individuals and thousands of institutions around the globe are making even while, like Candide, we tend to our gardens. The more we learn, the better able we will be to put issues in context for callers from the media and for anyone else who looks to higher education for help to make sense of a complex world. " |
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| Publication Date: | April 2005 |
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| Download URL: | http://ctl.stanford.edu/Tomprof/postings/633.html |
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IEEE LOM Record |
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