Mapping The Landscape: A Research Project on
Internationalization
"Mapping the Landscape," funded by the Ford Foundation, was a
three-stage research project aimed at better understanding the state of
internationalization efforts at U.S. colleges and universities,
particularly at the undergraduate level. The first stage consisted of
correlating existing national data on internationalization and resulted
in Internationalization of U.S. Higher Education: Preliminary Status
Report 2000. The second stage focused on the public's international
experiences and attitudes about international education, resulting in Public
Experience, Attitudes, and Knowledge: A Report on Two National Surveys
About International Education. The third stage included surveying
colleges and universities, faculty, and undergraduates. The results of
the three national surveys are described in the project's final report,
Mapping
Internationalization on U.S. Campuses: Final Report.
Internationalization of U.S. Higher Education: Preliminary
Status Report 2000
This study, funded by The Ford Foundation, provides an overview of the
state of internationalization in the United States. Drawn from existing
data and building on similar studies conducted in 1986–87, this
report looks at both published and unpublished accounts of curricular
and cocurricular internationalization activities and requirements,
institutional and public support for internationalization, and
attitudinal data. Among the findings are evidence of low levels of
international competency, a decline in the number of international
education requirements, a lower percentage of students studying foreign
languages, and reduced funding from federal and state sources.
Public
Experience, Attitudes, and Knowledge: A Report on Two National Surveys
About International Education
Most colleges and universities have been slow to respond to the effects
of globalization and to incorporate languages and international
education as a critical part of their expectations for undergraduate
learning. The public, however, appears to have quite different
expectations. This report, funded by the Ford Foundation, highlights the
findings of two national ACE surveys—a telephone
sample of 1,006 Americans aged 18 and older, and a telephone
sample of 500 four-year-college-bound high school seniors, carried
out in cooperation with the Art & Science Group. The public survey
examines international experiences, attitudes regarding international
education, and global knowledge. The student survey tests international
experience, attitudes about international education, and intentions to
participate in international education.
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