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The Global Campus: Challenges and Opportunities for Higher Education in North America

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Confronted with a world that is strikingly different from what it was just a decade ago, the United States faces rapidly shifting economic, political, and national security realities and challenges. To respond to these changes it is essential that our institutions of higher education graduate globally competent students. This article addresses several major challenges confronting international educators within the United States including redesigning the curriculum, achieving faculty buy-in, financing study abroad, integrating our international students in the efforts to internationalize our campus, and rethinking how we teach foreign languages on our campuses.

Key Words: global competence • glocalization • stand-alone undergraduate degrees • global studies • research abroad program • global academic partnerships • Integrated Field Trip Abroad

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Journal of Studies in International Education, Vol. 11, No. 3-4, 382-391 (2007)
DOI: 10.1177/1028315307303918


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