Determined whether training undergraduates (N=58) in multicultural issues improves awareness of their own cultural assumptions, values, and biases, along with their knowledge of other world views and cultural assumptions. Results indicate that undergraduates who completed a multicultural course reported increased multicultural awareness. Claims…

Presents a case study of the internationalization of higher education at the University of Minnesota. Addresses the curriculum, co-curriculum, role of international students and scholars, international educational exchanges and inter-university agreements, study abroad programs, organizational/structural arrangements (e.g., central administrative…

These articles describe the Sister Libraries program, part of the White House Millennium project, sponsored by the National Commission on Libraries and Information Science and the American Library Association to build relationships with libraries in other cultures. Discusses projects with public and school libraries and library development in…

This research was conducted to explore the impact of participation in an international education program on youth leadership development and how youth can more effectively engage in civic and community issues. The findings and recommendations offer international education programs, educators and youth workers strategies and best practices to…

Becoming multicultural has been defined as a process whereby an individual develops competencies of perceiving, evaluating, believing, and doing in multiple ways (Banks, 1988). Nieto (1996) argues that "becoming a multicultural teacher means first becoming a multicultural person. Without this transformation of themselves, any attempts at…

In response to an increasingly globalized world, universities are engaged in an ambiguous and unclear journey of internationalization for economic and political reasons, and guided by different ideologies. Universities' distinctive nature and unique characteristics give culture a prominent role in mediating the university environment. This study…

One in a series of discussion papers intended to promote exploration of issues related to volunteer motivation, recruitment, and development around the world, this report suggests that any country starting an intercultural exchange program may face problems similar to those encountered in Jamacia. The national director of an organization that…

Problems encountered by Japanese women who participated in an American women's studies seminar have been valuable to the development of a cross-cultural women's course at Mary Baldwin College in Virginia. In the summer of 1981, the school offered a special women's study course to 30 Japanese university women. The program had limited success…

The planning and development of the course, "Intercultural Communication: The American Indian", is discussed. The course is designed to resolve some of the communication problems between Indians and non-Indians, taking into account the wide divergencies in social organization, religious beliefs, language (both the native tongue and English), and…

THE COUNTRIES REPRESENTED AT THE TENTH INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS OF LINGUISTICS AT BUCHAREST AND THE SIXTH INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS OF PHONETIC SCIENCES AT PRAGUE WERE WIDELY VARIED IDEALOGICALLY, BUT THE MAJORITY OF THE PAPERS PRESENTED AT THESE 1967 CONFERENCES WERE IN A COMMON LANGUAGE--ENGLISH. WHILE THE PAPERS REFLECTED LITTLE CONCERN ABOUT THE…

This edition is designed to serve as a basic anthology for courses providing theoretical and practical knowledge about intercultural communication processes, as a supplementary text for existing basic courses, and as resource material for advanced courses and for situations involving intercultural communication. The four closely related parts of…

One of the major concerns of the Grand Rapids (Michigan) Advisory Council of the Career Opportunities Program (COP) is that traditional methods of recruitment and training are largely insufficient and leave much to be desired in quantity and quality of instructional staffs in low-income areas. As a result of discussions between the COP Project…

A cross-cultural program at a southern university is described. The objective of the program was to enable white students to learn more about black culture by spending a quarter at a predominantly black university, and for students from black institutions to spend a quarter at a predominantly white institution. A model to help orient visiting…