Colleges consider 'Going Global'

Future Campus confab mulls academics abroad

Source: The Times of Trenton
Author: Chris Sturgis
Publication Date: November 02, 2008

Article Abstract:

Goucher College President Sanford Ungar said his institution is using globalization as a way to distinguish itself among the nation's 140 liberal arts colleges. All Goucher students must study abroad at least once to graduate.

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The phrase "hands across the water" has developed a special meaning where higher education is concerned. Colleges and universities in the United States have long looked at foreign students as a way to replenish declining college-age populations, and a group of academics gathered at Princeton University recently to contemplate the globalization of higher education.

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