Leaders Urge Colleges to Continue Internationalization Efforts Despite Economic Crisis

By Beth McMurtrie

New York

The global economic crisis has accelerated the fear that the United States' international power is fading. But it has also made clear the necessity that American higher education must engage more deeply with the rest of the world, not run from it.

That was the consensus among a group of presidents and provosts who are meeting in New York this week as part of "Higher Education in a Global Society," a two-day conference sponsored by the TIAA-CREF Institute.

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Leaders Urge Colleges to Think Globally Despite Economic Crisis - November 21, 2008
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