Contends that there is a growing world market in education that has particular importance for Russia and Europe. Discusses the growing numbers of higher education students who study in other nations. Presents a list of recommendations that provide a foundation for Russia's future participation in international education. (CFR)

Highlights Auburn University's (Alabama) human-resource and economic-development programs in other countries, including an exchange of agricultural leaders with Germany and Hungary, a faculty exchange program with Haiti, student and faculty agricultural and aquacultural exchanges with China, and a number of programs in other countries. (MSE)

Explores both the strengths that minority-serving institutions have brought to serving the educational needs of racial and ethnic minority students and the divergent perspectives that have tended to generate competition among them for scarce resources. Potential integrative policy directions include information sharing, collaboration for entry…

The overseas study service program offered by Goshen College, Indiana, is described. The program strives to promote learning with a global perspective. Goshen sends students abroad in one of three ways: (1) a study service trimester, (2) a year abroad study, or (3) a European program which offers art courses in Italy, world civilization courses in…

The place of the Dewey Decimal System in the subject analysis procedures of the British National Bibliography is described. (Author)

The editorial procedure carried out in preparing a new edition of the Dewey Decimal Classification is described. (Author/PF)

Over 8,000 miles of travel and over 60 hours of interview time with various library staff members at 18 United States academic libraries were involved in this study of gift and exchange functions, their organization, and accomplishment. The libraries were selected on the basis of having a collection of at least 500,000 volumes and representing a…

The purposes of the Colloquium were to identify the pertinent questions relative to the growing influx of foreign graduate students to the United States and to reach consensus on priorities for research and action. This document presents: (1) the highlights of the Colloquium on (a) the situation in the United States, (b) the situation abroad, (c)…

The literature about the impact of study abroad on the American college undergraduate is reviewed and an experimental program instituted at Goshen College, Goshen, Indiana called the Study Service Term (SST) is discussed. The objectives of SST are to give students an immersion in a foreign culture so that they may: (1) examine and experience…

This document comprises 7 papers that are annual reports from the Special Committee for Development of Communication with Negro Colleges and Universities. The Committee, founded in 1963 as the Special Committee on Visiting Lecturers to Negro Colleges and Universities, has as its primary goal the creation of sensitive, on-going relationships…

Discusses a new German law to encourage foreign workers to return to their home countries, employment exchanges for young foreigners in Germany, and a training program for migrant workers in India. (SK)

In this historical view of the 19th century British initiatives to learn about Continental education methods and problems, the author challenges present-day educationists to reestablish that initiative and enthusiasm, cut off by World War I, so that today more than strictly comparative data can be shared in European education. (JH)

Instant communication, characterized by brevity, should be the practice of exchange librarians trading titles on the international level. Guidelines for a multilingual, many-purpose form letter, which could achieve uniformity, are presented. (14 references) (Author/SJ)