This volume,
published here for the first time, represents the
best thinking of more than 250 scholars,
practitioners, policymakers, and foundation leaders
on the status and future of international education
and foreign area studies in the United States. It is
the product of a national policy meeting, held at the
University of California, Los Angeles, January
23–25, 1997, where representatives from a broad
spectrum of higher education institutions and related
organizations came together, for the first time, to
review continuing and new national needs for
international education. UCLA joined with the U.S.
Department of Education to sponsor this forum, but
the fact that a cosponsor of the conference was a
coalition of over twenty-five major educational
organizations, the Coalition for International
Education, made the conference even more remarkable.
The sessions covered a wide terrain, from the history
of federal legislation and involvement in
international education to conceptual discussions of
the state of the field, issues related to both
undergraduate and graduate education, and, most
centrally, the relevance of international education
to the emerging national needs for the twenty-first
century.
We believe
that the volume presented here will be a standard
work in the formulation of university and government
policy in foreign area and language training for
years to come. The full text of this important study
can be downloaded from this website either in a
single file or by individual chapters. A paper
edition is also available.
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