Guidelines that are designed to facilitate interinstitutional resource sharing are presented for trustees, legislators, business and lay leaders and educators based on a 1981 national conference. Attention is directed to the range of potential benefits of resource sharing, the structures and processes for achieving resource sharing, and the action…

A comparative analysis of China's scholarly relations with the developed capitalist world explains China's policies; examines Sino-European scholarly exchange and American, Canadian, and Japanese exchange policies and programs; and intends to identify policies likely to contribute to cultural and educational autonomy or increase hazards of…

The Committee on Foreign Students in American Colleges and Universities published its findings in 1963 and reviewed areas of need and made recommendations for strengthening educational exchange programs in U.S. universities and colleges. This reprint of the committee's findings is in three chapters: education's stake in International Exchange, The…

Describes an exchange program whereby preservice and inservice American teachers and administrators can gain first hand knowledge of Britain's open education system. (Author/DN)

Supplementary report to an article on the same subject appearing in Die Neueren Sprachen", March 1970 issue. (DS)

The development of specific goals for each subject area provides a basis for fair evaluation of student accomplishments. (CK)

This paper discusses in a general way the decline of use of the Romanian language among second and third-generation Romanian-Americans, and then it points to the state of the study of English as a foreign language in the Romanian Socialist Republic today. A brief review of the influence of British English in Romania is followed by: (1) a more…

To be successful in a global economy, U.S. candidates must possess international knowledge, intercultural communication skills, and global perspectives to effectively teach diverse student populations. Unfortunately, teacher education programs have not prepared candidates to be internationally competent leaders for the future. Schools of education…

This article offers a contribution to the limited literature on internationalization as academic work. Using narrative inquiry incorporating a mode of research known as "car time", the authors generate narratives of practice to analyse the day-to-day work involved in their international university collaboration. The article foreshadows…

Twenty years ago, the Council on International Educational Exchange (CIEE) convened a group of experts to examine international higher education and make recommendations for the future of study abroad programs at U.S. universities. In its report to CIEE, the group--which represented a wide range of experience in higher education, foreign language…

Chinese and American exchanges introduced a Westchester County school district to a different culture and sharpened their view of their own educational experience. Through the forward thinking of Andy Spano, the county executive, and Daisy Yau, the director of Asian-American affairs and business development for the county, Westchester County had…

This book explores the idea of "intercultural competence", which, despite its current popularity across various discourses, has remained a vague and oscillating concept. Interculture lacks a universal definition and "competence" is not only a cognitive construct but also includes psychological traits such as attitudes,…

The Fulbright Program in New Zealand funds educational and cultural exchanges with the United States. The program is jointly financed and managed by the two signatory governments. The program is the principal means of academic and technological scholarly exchanges between the two countries. Programs include travel grants to graduate students…

The Community College Exchange Program (CCEP) is a consortium of community and technical colleges in the United States and abroad designed to establish and facilitate opportunities for administrator, faculty, and staff exchanges. Benefits associated with membership in the CCEP include low cost faculty and staff development, staffing flexibility,…

This report evaluates the study-abroad program initiated in Fredericia, Denmark by St. Cloud State University (Minnesota). The program integrated regular classes in general academic fields for all undergraduate students within the Danish environment and culture. Section 1 lists the objectives of the Denmark Study Center including both cognitive…