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International students in American colleges and universities : a history / Teresa Brawner Bevis and Christopher J. Lucas.
Van Pelt Library LB2376.4 .B48 2007
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bevis, Teresa Brawner.
- 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
- Online:
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- Contributor biographical information
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