Discusses the contributions that international exchange programs, group study abroad programs, teaching abroad, serving as host families, foreign curriculum consultants, workshops, conferences, and institutes can have in community college staff development programs. Presents guidelines, potential problems, and implications for action. (MB)

Offers guidance on the development of international faculty exchange programs at community colleges, examining prerequisites to exchanges; type of exchange agreements; recruiting, screening, and selecting participants; visas and health insurance; predeparture and return briefings; communicating with incoming exchange faculty; postexchange…

Designed to assist community colleges in moving from a rhetorical and general interest in international education to a practical and effective international education program, this monograph contains 11 essays which discuss ways of developing reasonably effective programs. This book contains the following articles: (1) "Lessons from the Past in…