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Publications

Study Abroad: A 21st Century Perspective

The Foundation publishes a booklet for study abroad advisors on topics such as diversification of study abroad participants, financial aid, technology, safety, faculty involvement and service-learning. Entitled Study Abroad: A 21st Century Perspective, it focuses on study abroad issues at the dawn of the millennium.

Innocents at home redux—the continuing challenge to America's future

Innocents at home redux—the continuing challenge to America's future is an update of Denis Doyle's 1996 commissioned study, including the impact of the internet on international exchange and university/universal community. He reviews the reasons for Americans' appalling lack of knowledge of other cultures and recommends what to do to overcome these barriers (view the Executive Summary).

Dennis Doyle is Senior Research Fellow at the Hudson Institute. The entire report can be ordered. Send $5 to: Doyle Study, AIFS Foundation, River Plaza, 9 West Broad Street, Stamford, CT 06902-3788.

IIE/AIFS Foundation Global Education Research Report: U.S.-China Educational Exchange

U.S.-China Educational Exchange: Perspectives on a Growing PartnershipIIE and the AIFS Foundation have teamed up to create a series of Global Education Research Reports. The first report in this new series, U.S.-China Educational Exchange: Perspectives on a Growing Partnership, focuses on educational exchange between the United States and China from multiple perspectives. It seeks to expand the range of information on U.S.-China academic exchange available to study abroad policymakers and practitioners.

Topics include:

  • Trends and Models of Exchange Between China and the U.S.
  • National Policy Goals: U.S. Government Activities Supporting U.S.-China Exchange
  • National Policy Goals: PRC Government Activities Supporting U.S.-China Exchange
  • Scholarly Exchanges with China
  • U.S.-China Student and Teacher Exchange Programs: Developing Understanding in a Global Age
  • Coordinating Campus-Wide China Exchanges: The George Mason University Example
  • The Language Flagship: Multiple Approaches to Creating Global Professionals
  • Working with U.S. Higher Education: A Chinese Perspective

Read the forward written by William L. Gertz, President and CEO of AIFS.

To learn more about and/or order a copy of this report, visit www.iiebooks.org/uedexpeongrp.html.

IIE/AIFS Foundation Global Education Research Report: Higher Education on the Move

Higher Education on the Move: New Developments in Global MobilityThe second report in the series, Higher Education on the Move: New Developments in Global Mobility, explores the effects of recent developments in higher education, the world economy, and government policy on global student and scholar mobility. Authors ask how these processes affect the most commonly discussed aspect of international education — the movement of students and scholars across national borders.

Topics include:

  • Global Student Mobility: Moving Towards Brain Exchange
  • GATS and Transnational Mobility in Higher Education
  • Internationalizing the Academy: The Impact of Scholar Mobility
  • Increasing Europe's Attractiveness for International Students: What Can We Learn from the Bologna Process?
  • Joint and Dual Degree Programs: New Ventures in Academic Mobility
  • Higher Education Rankings and the Global "Battle for Talent"
  • Global Competitiveness in Science and Technology and the Role of Mobility
  • New Developments and Unintended Consequences: Whither Thou Goest, Internationalization?

Read the forward written by William L. Gertz, President and CEO of AIFS.

To learn more about and/or order a copy of this report, visit www.iiebooks.org/hiedonmonewd.html.

IIE/AIFS Foundation Global Education Research Report: International India

Higher Education on the Move: New Developments in Global MobilityThe third report in the series, International India: A Turning Point in Educational Exchange with the U.S., is the only comprehensive volume in recent years to focus on U.S.-India higher education exchanges at a crucial juncture in this important relationship. In this report, Indian and American authors address wide-ranging topics including the process of internationalization and higher education policy debates within India, U.S. government and institutional strategies to improve Indo-U.S. higher education linkages, the growing study abroad relationship between the two countries, and the relationship between higher education, entrepreneurship and the success of the Indian diaspora in the U.S.

Topics include:

  • U.S.-India Mobility at a Turning Point: Background and Trends
  • National Policy Goals - U.S. Department of State Activities Supporting U.S.-India Academic Exchanges
  • Indian Governmental and Policy Initiatives for U.S.-India Educational Exchange
  • Internationalization of Indian Higher Education
  • Is There a Role for Foreign Providers in India? Past Challenges and Current Developments
  • America's New Immigrant Entrepreneurs
  • Intercultural Competence: An Outcome of Student Exchange
  • Creating Indo-U.S. Higher Education Partnerships: Lessons Learned at the University of California, Davis
  • U.S.-India Collaboration in Engineering Education: Prospects for Change under New Leadership?
  • A Retrospective Look at Indo-U.S. Higher Education Relations

Read the forward written by William L. Gertz, President and CEO of AIFS.

To learn more about and/or order a copy of this report, visit http://www.iiebooks.org/uhiedex.html.

IIE/AIFS Foundation Global Education Research Report: Innovation through Education

Higher Education on the Move: New Developments in Global MobilityIn the fourth report of the series, Innovation through Education: Building the Knowledge Economy in the Middle East, authors from a wide range of institutions and organizations describe and analyze current innovations, trends, and issues that countries and institutions in the Middle East are facing as they move toward educational reform and devekopment, as well as exchange projects between Middle Eastern countries and the United States. The reportincludes discussions of institutional planning in the region, women's education, youth exchange, and Arabic language education, and offers a contemporary and erudite examination of global education in building the knowledge economy in the Middle East.

Topics include:

  • The “Knowledge Society” in the Middle East
  • Strategic Planning in Higher Education: The Case of Non-Gulf Middle Eastern Countries
  • Strategic Planning in Higher Education: The Case of Non-Gulf Middle Eastern Countries
  • The Evolution of the Branch Campus in Qatar and UAE
  • “Science Cities” and the Demographic Dividend
  • The Role of Internationalization in Women's Education in the Middle East
  • Advancing U.S. Study Abroad to the Middle East
  • The Role of Youth Exchange in U.S.-Middle Eastern Cultural Understanding
  • Promoting Arabic Language Education in U.S. Higher Education
  • Classifying Higher Education Institutions in the MENA Region: A Pilot Project

To learn more about and/or order a copy of this report, visit http://www.iiebooks.org/inthedbuknec.html.