The University of Pennsylvania's Lauder Institute of Management and International Studies introduced a cultural segment into its second language program in 1986 to enable students to use language purposefully within the foreign culture. During the program's 2 years, students are exposed to eight different cultural segments taught by language…

International education in the United States is a cluster of concepts in a variety of institutional patterns: technical assistance, comparative education, cultural exchange, languages, area studies, and education for global understanding. The idealistic side will have little legislative support in the 1980s, but the pragmatic side promises to…

Discusses the goal of internationalization of Swedish higher education, necessary to train Swedish personnel who will be stationed outside the country and because of internationalization of Swedish society due to extensive immigration from other countries. Describes proposals and attitudinal objectives of an internationalizing commission and…