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International students in American colleges and universities : a history / Teresa Brawner Bevis and Christopher J. Lucas.

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Bevis, Teresa Brawner.
Contributor:
Lucas, Christopher J.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Students, Foreign--United States--History.
Students, Foreign.
Universities and colleges--United States.
Universities and colleges.
History.
United States.
Education, Higher--United States.
Education, Higher.
Physical Description:
xiv, 285 pages ; 25 cm
Edition:
First edition.
Place of Publication:
New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.
Contents:
1 Foreign Students and Centers of Higher Learning in Antiquity 13
Foreign Students in Ancient Greece 14
Roman Schools 16
Museums 16
Student Misconduct 17
Wandering Scholars in Medieval Europe 19
Foreign Students in the European Universities of the High Middle Ages 20
The Confessional Age 26
The Grand Tour 28
2 Early American Colleges and Education Exchange 31
The Founding Fathers 32
Drawing Upon the German Ideal 34
From the European Perspective 36
Francisco de Miranda and the First Latin American Enrollments 40
Yung Wing and the Chinese Education Mission 42
The First Enrollments from Japan 53
The Beginnings of Immigration Policy 55
3 The Early 1900s: Foreign Student Enrollments and Emerging Support 59
The Foreign Student Census 1900-1930 60
In the Spirit of de Miranda: Growing Latin American Enrollments 62
The Boxer Rebellion and the Return of the Chinese 63
A 1909 Foreign Student Services Survey 65
Tsing Hua College 68
Teachers College at Columbia University 69
"Slave Education" 71
The Pensionados 74
Enrollments from Other World Regions: France, Japan, and India 78
Cosmopolitan Clubs 81
The International Houses 84
The Committee on Friendly Relations Among Foreign Students 88
Female Foreign Students in the Early 1900s 89
Foreign Students and Christianity 92
The Shaping of Governmental and Institutional Policy 93
The Institute of International Education 95
Exclusions and Quotas: Immigration Policy Developments 98
4 The World War II Years and Their Aftermath 101
The Birth of the Fulbright Educational Exchange Program 103
The Continuing Story of the Institute of International Education 108
UNESCO 111
Smaller Ventures 112
The 1948-1949 Foreign Student Census 113
The National Association of Foreign Student Advisers 120
Burden of Proof: Evaluating Credentials 123
War and Postwar Immigration Policies 125
Stranded in America 126
5 Foreign Students, McCarthyism, and the Cold War 131
The McCarran Legislation 133
Atoms-for-Peace: Deploying Knowledge 136
The Bamboo Curtain 137
Internationalizing America's Campuses 140
Issues of Adjustment 142
The 1955 Foreign Student Census 143
The Training of Physicians 146
New Organizations and Initiatives for Exchange 148
The 1959-1960 Foreign Student Census 151
6 The 1960s and 1970s 155
Innovations and Growth in Exchange Programs 159
The IIE: New Contributions 161
The South African Education Program 163
The 1969-1970 Foreign Student Census 164
Community Colleges and Foreign Students 167
Emerging Research 171
The 1979-1980 Foreign Student Census 172
7 The Late Twentieth Century 175
Global Competition 175
The Community College Alternative 177
Making the Sale 182
A Closer Look at International Students 184
Attitudes and Characteristics of Foreign Students 187
Reentry 188
Intellectual Migration 189
Enrollments in the Late Twentieth Century 191
The 1999-2000 Foreign Student Census 192
Growing Enrollments from India 194
Borders and Taxes 195
8 The Opening Years of the Twenty-First Century 201
International Students and the Rising Threat of Terrorism 201
9/11: The Debate Continues 203
Continuing Controversy Surrounding SEVIS 207
Homeland Security and International Students: The Ongoing Debate 208
Visa Restrictions 211
The Enrollment Decline 212
Responses to the Enrollment Decrease 216
Enrollment Stabilization 219
International Competition for Students 220
The Bologna Process 222
Looking Backward and Ahead 223
Epilogue: Challenges and Imperatives 231
Security Questions in the Aftermath of September 11, 2001 231
The "Crowd-out" Effect 235
The International Student Enrollment Decline Reconsidered 237
Reforming Immigration Law and the Visa System 238
Global Competition 240
The Need for Strategic Planning 241
International Students in America 242
Ambiguity in the Multiple Rationales for International Exchange 244
Looking Ahead 246.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages [271]-279) and index.
ISBN:
0230600115
9780230600119
OCLC:
123136878

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