June 2, 2000

Culture and Unrealistic Expectations Challenge American Campuses in Japan

By BETH McMURTRIE

Temple manages to become one of the survivors while Minnesota State prepares to pull out

When a local television station approached a professor at Temple University's branch campus here to suggest filming one of his graduate classes, he thought it would be good publicity. Instead, he faced a mutiny. As soon as the Japanese students, all of whom were schoolteachers, saw video cameras, they walked out.

If their colleagues knew they were studying for advanced degrees, the students

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