The Chronicle of Higher Education
Issues in Depth

The Global Campus

February 8, 2008

TO INDIA BY ANY MEANS

American colleges eager to enter the highly restricted but enormous Indian market are forming partnerships with unregulated private institutions there.

November 1, 2007

GLOBAL U.

Portland State University, on the Pacific Rim, trains its graduates for a world in which an understanding of other cultures, economies, and political systems is crucial.

September 7, 2007

STUDY ABROAD GROWS UP

As spending a semester overseas becomes more popular, colleges struggle to create practical standards.

August 16, 2007

Study-abroad providers are new target of investigation by New York State attorney general

August 15, 2007

Colleges defend the costs of study-abroad programs

As interest in studying abroad grows, colleges struggle with cost, quality, and oversight

June 29, 2007

GOING FAR, DOING GOOD

Public research universities in the United States use strategic partnerships around the world to help people at home as well as those abroad.

THINK GLOBALLY, ACT GLOBALLY

Want to internationalize your college's programs? First, set a daunting goal, writes JoAnn S. McCarthy, assistant provost for international affairs at the University of Pennsylvania.

June 1, 2007

CULTURAL ENGINEERING

Study-abroad programs for American engineers in training, while still small, are growing as industry becomes more international.
Steven Feroli and Tarra Epstein, engineering students in Worchester Polytechnic Institute's global-studies program, traveled to Namibia to teach people about energy-saving technologies. (Photograph by Richard Howard)

April 27, 2007

HIRING IN TONGUES

Demand for programs in Chinese, Arabic, and other strategically important languages is high, but not enough instructors are available.

BACKGROUND:

ANSWERING AMERICA'S INVITATION

The number of foreign students in the United States remained steady last academic year, ending two years of declines, an annual report says. (November 17, 2006)

'CAN'T LIVE IN A BUBBLE': Globalizing higher education is crucial but could lead to brain drains, most college leaders around the world said in a survey. (October 27, 2006)

BUFFALO MEETS SINGAPORE

Despite some costly flops, a rapidly growing number of American colleges are setting up shop in foreign students' own countries. (February 17, 2006)

GOLD RUSH OR QUAGMIRE?

Foreign universities in China find that making money there isn't as easy as they may have hoped. (February 17, 2006)

PASSPORT TO A DIPLOMA

American colleges are coming up with strategies and programs to encourage more students to go abroad for part of their education. (November 19, 2004)

THE TRULY GLOBAL CAMPUS

When they design international-education programs, colleges should give weight to educational as well as entrepreneurial goals, write Madeleine Green and Michael Baer of the American Council on Education. (November 9, 2001)