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Missing the boat : the failure to internationalize American higher education / Craufurd D. Goodwin and Michael Nacht.

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Author/Creator:
Goodwin, Craufurd D. W.
Language:
English
Imprint:
Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1991.
Format:
  • Book
  • xiii, 130 p. ; 24 cm.
Note:
Includes index.
Contents:
  • Introduction-- 1. Higher education looks abroad: historical trends-- 2. Who goes today? and who does not?-- 3. Individual costs and benefits-- 4. Campus attitudes-- 5. Obstacles to international experience-- 6. Issues for debate-- 7. Case studies-- 8. Epilogue: missing the boat-- Appendix-- Index.
  • (source: Nielsen Book Data)
Publisher's Summary:
For many faculty the desire and need to go abroad is inherent in the nature of their discipline. For others the thought of going abroad for scholarly purposes is completely alien. This book, which was sponsored by the Council for International Exchange of Scholars, looks in depth at the international experience of American faculty. Goodwin and Nacht examine the type of faculty who go abroad and their reasons for doing so, the incentives and the disincentives for faculty travel abroad, the attitudes prevalent on US campuses toward such activities, the special obstacles and risks faced by faculty who commit themselves to an international experience and the effects of foreign experience among the faculty on the internationalisation of US campuses. In preparing the book, the authors conducted extensive interviews with faculty at thirty-seven institutions of higher education.
(source: Nielsen Book Data)
Contributor:
Nacht, Michael.
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ISBN:
0521402131
9780521402132

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