The University of Maryland University College is providing degree and continuing education to 20,000 military personnel with 1,000 faculty at 100 locations in Asia, Australia, Europe, the Middle East, Russia, and South America. Distance education is offered in Antarctica and Hong Kong. Almost every subject taught domestically is offered overseas.…

As part of a student exchange between a French and a Spanish college, students produced four photo-novels, one by the French group and one by the Spanish, each in both French and Spanish versions. The unique aspect of this project was that most of the communication between the two student groups was by videotaped "letters." (MSE)

Discusses Raptors Connecting Cultures (RCC), a multicultural environmental education program for Latino students. The RCC Program attempted to make connections between local ecology in eastern Pennsylvania and the students' home countries using the concept of migration as a link. Encourages the inclusion of contributions and connections from…

Focuses on a video pen pal program between seventh- and eighth-grade classes in North Carolina and Alabama. This exchange is structured around the objectives of developing an understanding of the fundamentals of geography, an analysis of information about the local area, and a recognition that geography differs from place to place. (KO)

Examines diaries kept by 18 anglophone high-school students of French while they spent 3 months in Quebec as part of an exchange program. Research focused on insights into language-learning process provided by student diarists; affective factors in language learning; extralinguistic benefits of exchange; and ways in which the diaries supplement…

Describes a Sister Schools Program involving preschool children in Vail, Colorado, and Teaneck, New Jersey. As part of the program, children develop photo albums, exchange audio and video tapes, exchange a teddy bear, and compile environmental boxes. Sharing allows children to see the similarities and differences of different cultures. (LB)

A rural school principal from New Zealand participated in a principal exchange program that allowed her to visit various rural schools in Australia. She examined incentives to attract and retain teachers in remote schools, forms of teacher monitoring and appraisal, and the extent to which Australian parents and community members were involved in…

Traces the development of camper exchange programs between the United States and the Soviet Union; notes differences between Soviet and U.S. residential camps; and discusses the benefits and future of camper exchange programs. Since 1987, 70 U.S. residential camps have hosted Soviet children and hundreds of U.S. campers have attended Soviet camps.…

In an exchange program, 11- and 12-year olds from Arles (France) (n=25) and Sparta (Greece) (n=27) visited each other's cities and explored the culture and history. This study explores the ways they conceptualized the cultural patrimony of both cities through student drawings. The exchange created opportunities for dialog about European culture.…

Describes research in progress that examines the personal and professional experiences of faculty from colleges and universities in North America and abroad after they engage in academic visits and exchanges at other higher-learning institutions. The research goal is to improve the quality of faculty visits and exchanges. (CDS)

Notes that the American presence in east central European higher education is considerable and continues to grow. Discusses the ongoing struggles over the shape and the soul of universities in this region. Describes briefly representative teacher and scholar exchanges, teacher-training reforms, and combined East-West programs of study. (RS)

Surveyed business curriculum internationalization at U.S. colleges and universities. Found most curricula have substantially increased international exposure during the 1990s. Diverse methods of internationalization remain; joint programs, student and faculty exchanges, and foreign language requirements are increasingly present. Elective…

Focuses on the need for health and safety for participants of study-abroad programs. Lists five themes that guide the Interorganizational Task Force on Safety and Responsibility in Study Abroad's efforts to ensure student safety, including: (1) the definition of "sponsor"; and (2) the need for guidelines for advisers and partner institutions. (CJW)

Argues for centrality of living the ethnographic life for any cultural studies students spending a period of time abroad, as this approach is based on a methodology in which data and concepts illuminate each other. Language is no longer separated from social and cultural knowledge but "lived" and developed within a community in which the student…

In the autumn of 2004, an interdisciplinary social science course entitled "Remembering, Forgetting and Forgiveness: Justice and Reconciliation from the National to the International" was offered to undergraduate students at the University of Tampere, Finland. The course had 49 students from 10 different countries on three continents. A…