"Foundational Reading for Education Abroad Scholar-Practitioners" by Anthony Ogden, Ph.D.

Recently, Dr. Anthony Ogden, Executive Director of Education Abroad and Exchanges at Michigan State University, posted to SECUSS-L informing the field of his updated Foundational Reading for Education Abroad Scholar-Practitioners resource.

This nine page resource is an extraordinary compilation of literature and resources that every colleague in the field of education abroad should read or at least have knowledge of their existence.  Are you trying to break into the field of education abroad or more broadly into the field of international education?  If so, pick a reading off this list and start consuming!  Are you teaching a course on the internationalization/globalization of higher education?  If so, at a minimum link to and highlight this resource but more importantly you can find your required readings among the 77 listed readings and six key references.

Ogden breaks the readings down by the following 21 major knowledge areas followed by the key references:

1. Comprehensive Internationalization
2. International and Comparative Education
3. U.S. Education Abroad History
4. Evaluation and Assessment
5. Student Success
6. Curriculum Integration
7. Student Learning and Development
8. Student Advising and Support
9. Ongoing Orientation
10. Intercultural Competency
11. Global Citizenship
12. Cultural Learning and engagement
13. Diversity and Underrepresentation
14. Career Development and Employability
15. Academic Engagement and Development
16. Language Acquisition
17. Experiential Learning
18. Global Health Programming
19. Short-Term Education Abroad
20. General Research and Scholarship
21. General Professional
Key References

The list of authors of these foundational readings are a who's who of scholar-practitioners in the field and there are many colleagues that I have collaborated with on projects, co-authored book chapters or as the book editor, committees and task forces, presentations and workshops or in other endeavors such as Skyping in to a graduate level course as a guest speaker on international education.  Some of these authors are good friends and we have collaborated more in depth while some of these authors and I have only shared a microphone during a conference panel presentation and haven't collaborated beyond being invited to and showing up to the panel.  To be sure, there are many authors of these foundational readings that I know well but have yet to formally collaborate and there are others I have yet to meet in person or formally interact with electronically via email or Twitter or via some NAFSA online discussion forum but I hope to some day!  A list of the authors who I have collaborated with, large & small, follows (in no particular order):

Anthony Ogden

Gary Rhodes

Martin Tillman

Darla Deardorff

Bruce La Brack

Hans de Wit

the late Tony Adams

William Gertz

Michael Woolf

Bill Hoffa

Davina Potts

Bernhard Streitwieser

Gayle Woodruff

Michael Vande Berg

Martha Johnson

Margaret Wiedenhoeft

Mell Bolen

Lilli Engle

Victor Savicki

Richard Sutton

Gerald Fry

Elizabeth Stallman

John Hudzik

Jae-Eun Jon

I've been very fortunate to cross paths with so many wonderful people and contributors to the field of international education!

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Literature on Education Abroad from the 1800's

Many IHEC Blog readers are aware of my interest in the history of international education in the United States.  My historical interests date back to colonial times but the late 1800's, early 1900's, the inter-war period (1918-1939), post-World War II through the 1960's and then the 1970's-1980's.  While fluid, these are the various time periods I tend to focus my research on.


Some time ago I posted a link to a short piece of literature in Google Books from 1896 that was making an argument for American students to study in France versus Germany (link below) to Twitter and IHEC Blog's Facebook page and several people enjoyed the posts so I am sharing links below to two historical piece of literature focusing on education abroad:


Should American Youth Be Educated Abroad? In “Education Abroad, And Other Papers” by Birdsey Grant Northrop, LL.D., Secretary of Connecticut Board of Education. New York and Chicago: A.S. Barnes & Co. (1873) at http://bit.ly/fb0kE6 [scroll down a little] or http://bit.ly/ugAqvy


An argument for American students to study in France vs. Germany via the “Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science”, Volume 7 (1896) at http://bit.ly/eI10q7.

Latest donations to Bury Book International Education Library & Archive

Pictured here are the latest donations to Bury Book International Education Library & Archive.  These are excellent additions to my collection!  I don't publicly state who the donations are from because I don't know if the donor(s) are okay with this and I want to maintain their privacy.  I do want to take this opportunity to publicly state my THANKS to the most recent donor and that her/his donation is greatly appreciated!  A special thanks goes out to the four individuals who have made donations to Bury Book over the past couple of years.


If you have any international education related materials you would like to donate I would love to hear from you!  


You can read an earlier IHEC Blog post here about how I came up with the name Bury Book International Education Library & Archive as well as see some photos of the hard copy part of my collection.

In the Spotlight at Bury Book International Education Library & Archive ~ Literature from the 1980's

For this post I thought I would highlight a few of the pieces of literature one can find in Bury Book International Education Library & Archive.  I took a random selection of literature from the 1980's and took a picture of each cover with my phone to help present the literature in a more meaningful way below:

Education for International Development: Strategies for Professional Integration: Strengthening Foreign Student/Private Sector Interaction (1985) by Hugh M. Jenkins for the National Association for Foreign Student Affairs. 

Foreign Student Recruitment: Realities and Recommendations, A colloquium held at Wingspread, Racine, Wisconsin, March 26-28, 1980 and sponsored by The National Liaison Committee on Foreign Student Admissions. Edited by Hugh M. Jenkins for the College Entrance Examination Board.

The Right Mix: The Report of The Commission on Foreign Student Policy (1981) by the Canadian Bureau for International Education/Bureau canadien de l'éducation internationale

The Cross Cultural Adaptation of Hong Kong Chinese Students at Canadian Universities (1986, September) by the Canadian Bureau for International Education/Bureau canadien de l'éducation internationale [Advance copy - unrevised] 

Containing Crisis: The Response to Overseas Student Groups in Hardship, A Report by the Working Party on Crisis and Hardship Arrangements for Overseas Students (1985) by the UK Council of Overseas Student Affairs (UKCOSA)

Handbook for Community Organizations Working with Foreign Students: Developing, Maintaining, Revitalizing Programs (1986) by the National Association for Foreign Student Affairs. 

Please note that all of these publications were donated to "Bury Book" by a Senior International Education Scholar who remains active today.  If you are interested in donating all or part of your international education library I would love to hear from you!  Currently, Bury Book Library & Archive are in my home so access can be a bit of a challenge to coordinate.  Future plans (post dissertation and funding) are to make the library & archive more accessible.


Photo credits:  http://davidcomp.wordpress.com/

What literature is currently on your international education night stand?

I must admit that I'm not a big reader...never have been.  There are very few books that I have read for pleasure.  It's unfortunate but I move on.  I must admit, however, that I do read my fair share of international education literature...always have since I entered the field.  I find myself frequently reading international literature for pleasure.  It's unfortunate but I move on.

Current international education literature piece on my night stand is:

Lutjens S.L., (2006)." National security, the state, and the politics of U.S.-Cuba educational exchange." Latin American Perspectives, 33 (5), pp. 58-80. Abstract available at: http://lap.sagepub.com/content/33/5/58.abstract

What international education literature is currently on your international education night stand?

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Annotated International Education Bibliographies

For many, many years I have been compiling annotated bibliographies on international education in the United States [primarily on U.S. students abroad but dabbling a little in international students literature].  It has been some time since I made a significant update to any of these bibliographies and I’m slowly working to update these and as soon as I complete my dissertation (hopefully by spring 2011 but possibly autumn 2011) I’ll begin working on these updates on a more frequent basis.  In the meantime, you can access all of the annotated bibliographies I have compiled (or have been involved with) at http://davidcomp.wordpress.com/research-projects/ [1]

Education Abroad and It’s Value in the Job Market ©

Faculty Members Abroad ©

Female Students Abroad ©

GLBTQ Students Abroad ©

Heritage Seeking in Education Abroad ©

Research on Underrepresentation in Education Abroad: An Annotated Bibliography ©

Research Bibliographies and Abstracts on Study Abroad ©

Annotated Bibliography of Research on International Students in the U.S. ©

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[1] Please note that all of these bibliographies are copyright protected but anyone may use, distribute, manipulate, embed or use any way as long as proper citation is given and as much as possible linked back to  http://davidcomp.wordpress.com/research-projects/

Literature obtained during the NAFSA Annual Conference & IHEC Blog Posts this Week

During the NAFSA conference I always find time to stroll through the exhibit hall.  I sometimes find it to be the most educational part of the conference.  To be sure, I’m always on the hunt for chotchkies for my kids and I think this year I did not disappoint!  I also started collecting pins (not buttons) from all of the various booths and I have a nice little collection going for the past three years.  More important, however, is that strolling through the exhibit hall provides an excellent opportunity for me to brush up on my anthropological and field/observational research skills (though I have no formal training in this area).  I find it very educational to see how various institutions, organizations, companies and countries present themselves to the field and I always find it fascinating to sit back and watch all of the people from all over the world interacting and working to establish exchanges/agreements as the exhibit hall is so much more than an us [U.S.] and them transaction.

Another practice of mine in the exhibit hall is searching for and collecting reports and books for my various research activities and to be housed in my Bury Book International Education Library & Archive.  NAFSA 2010 was exceptionally good to me as you can see from the photo pictured with this post (includes much of the literature I picked-up).  This week I will be highlighting some of literature I picked-up in the exhibit hall as well as some of the literature I was given (Many thanks IIE and MIUSA).  Additionally, I hope to post about a new publication about study abroad in the U.S. that I recently received.  To end this week I plan to post my video interview with Christopher Murphy, Senior Publications Director at NAFSA, as we discussed writing and publishing with NAFSA.

In case you missed my tweet (with photo) from #nafsa10 about the new CIEE Occasional Paper #32 titled “Study Abroad and its Transformative Power” by Gerald W. Fry, R. Michael Paige, Jae-Eun Jon, Jon Dillow and Kyoung-Ah Nam I thought I would put this great new publication on your radar.  CIEE has resurrected their popular Occasional Papers series and based on my conversation with a colleague at CIEE involved with bringing this new Occasional Paper to the field there will hopefully be more to come in the future!  You can access the Study Abroad and its Transformative Power Occasional Paper #32 here and all of the CIEE Occasional Papers here.

"Review of Global Studies Literature" a pilot project of NAFSA's Teaching, Learning, and Scholarship (TLS) knowledge community

The NAFSA Teaching, Learning and Scholarship (TLS) knowledge community has just launched their new and exciting pilot project entitled “Review of Global Studies Literature” and I thought IHEC Blog readers would be interested in checking out.  Under the leadership of Rebecca Hovey and Bryan McAllister-Grande (co-editors), this e-compilation of book reviews features 12 different international educators analyzing sixteen recent books related to our field.  The Review encompasses not only traditional international education literature, but also literature from converging fields: comparative education, global studies, human rights, and academic textbooks.  The Review can be found at: www.nafsa.org/GSLreview

Since this is new project, the editors welcome any and all feedback. They are also looking for contributors for upcoming additions to the compilation, and a call for reviewers will be announced in the next few weeks.

Please contact the editors using the email addresses below with your feedback

Rebecca Hovey
Rebecca.Hovey@sit.edu

Bryan McAllister-Grande
bgrande@brandeis.edu

Photo credit:  G & A Sattler

Plenty of Free International Education Materials to Download on the Internets

It's a busy week this week as my two older kids are out of school on spring break and I'm home with them all week.  Additionally, I have a draft of my dissertation proposal due soon so my time to focus on IHEC Blog posts and navigating in other spaces is limited.  The following are some quick links where you can download several great resources related to international education. Happy reading/researching!

AIEA 2010 Annual Conference Presentations

NAFSA Advocacy Day 2010 Issues Briefs

NAFSA Region XI Archives (subject of recent IHEC Blog post)

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A Brief Synopsis of Recent Literature on U.S. Students Abroad

It has been some time since I have had a guest blogger here at IHEC Blog and I’m pleased to publish this post by my colleague Emily Gorlewski, Assistant Director in the Office of Study Abroad, Center for International Studies at Western Illinois University. In this post, Emily provides a brief synopsis of three recent articles on U.S. study abroad:

Salisbury, M.H., Paulsen, M.B., and Pascarella, E.T. (2010) To see the world or stay at home; Applying an integrated student choice model to explore the gender gap in the intent to study abroad. Research in Higher Education (in press, retrieved March 9, 2010 from www.education.uiowa.edu/crue/publications/index.htm)

Salisbury, M.H., Umbach, P.D., Paulsen, M.B., and Pascarella, E.T. (2009) Going global: Understanding the choice process of the intent to study abroad. Research in Higher Education 50, 119-143.

Stroud, A. (2010). Who plans (not) to study abroad? An examination of U.S. student intent. Journal of Studies in International Education, 1-18. Doi 10.1177/1028315309357942

As a study abroad professional with big ambitions to increase participation at my university, I am thrilled to see quite a number of new research articles about what influences students to study abroad or not. When I worked as a study abroad adviser and was also a graduate student, this was my primary interest. I wanted to know why our students weren’t going abroad. Were they too poor? Didn’t they know about study abroad? Were they just not interested? The literature at that time (Spring 2006) was not as extensive as it is today, thanks to these new resources.

These studies support some previous research findings and commonly-held beliefs about study abroad while challenging others. For a practitioner like me, they point out the similarities in factors influencing students to study abroad, while also highlighting areas in which more research is needed in each particular institution. This research is a huge contribution to understanding participation in study abroad.

April Stroud’s (2010) sample was from one institution, University of Massachusetts-Amherst. Stroud found that female students were more likely to intend to study abroad than male students, which is in line with the Open Doors statistics on students who do go abroad. She also found that students who attended college farther away from home were more likely to intend to study abroad, as were students who indicated a strong interest in learning about other cultures. She found that students who lived at home while attending school and those in engineering or professional majors were less likely to intend to study abroad, while parents’ income level and education level did not appear to be related to intent to study abroad.

Salisbury, Umbach, Paulsen and Pascarella (2009) and Salisbury, Paulsen and Pascarella (2010) had a sample drawn from 19 different institutions. Because of the diversity of this sample compared to Stroud’s or that of any single institution trying to study its own students, it is possible that some would consider the results more generalizable to the US undergraduate population as a whole. However, as the researchers point out, the institutions sampled represented a disproportionate number of liberal-arts colleges. In the 2009 study, women were found to be more likely than men to intend to study abroad. This finding is studied in more detail in the 2010 article. The data on racial background and majors was interesting; the authors suggest that the fact that certain student groups are underrepresented is not due to a lack of desire or intent to study abroad. The 2010 analysis focuses on gender, finding relationships among this factor plus, race, income, parents’ education levels and other variables. There’s too much fascinating information to summarize here; you will have to read the article!

All of these articles are full of implications for further research, and they are just a sample of the research that has appeared recently on this topic. As the field continues to grow, I hope that the momentum in this area can be maintained, and more answers can be found for those of us who are asking why more students don’t take advantage of the opportunity to study abroad. It’s important for each of us to remember, however, that each institution has its own unique student population, and in order to serve that population’s needs, we need to look inward and focus on what drives our own students.

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Resources of Interest Found in the “Bury Book International Education Library & Archive”

For several years now I have been collecting literature and resources on international education for my various research, bibliography, writing and now blogging activities. I currently have over 4,000 electronic articles, books, reports, meeting minutes, notes related to international education in my collection and it’s growing daily. Additionally, I have a pretty decent hard copy collection of international education related literature in my home office (if I don’t say so myself!).

Last week I posted to IHEC Blog on “A Thought on the Problems I see with Researching Outcomes from Study Abroad” and I received some really good feedback via e-mail and my colleague Bryan McAllister-Grande, from Brandeis University and the NAFSA TLS Research & Scholarship network leader, forwarded that post to the Research & Scholarship network members and a brief discussion has started which is great! Many people were interested in the Stimpfl & Engberg articles and I offered to make a copies to send out. While I was searching for the two articles in my library (still looking but hope to find them soon) I came across many of the interesting and old (original hard copy) publications I have in my collection and I thought I would simply list a few of them here:[1]

“The Foreign Graduate Student: Priorities for Research and Action” (1971) by the College Entrance Examination Board, New York

“Educational Exchanges: Aspects of the American Experience, Report of a Conference Sponsored by the Committee on International Exchange of Persons of the Conference Board of Associated Research Councils” (1956) by the National Academy of Sciences-National Research Council
“A Guide to Institutional Self-Study and Evaluation of Educational Programs Abroad” (1965) by the Council on Student Travel
“Minutes of the September 16, 1980 Meeting of Research Committee of the IEELG” – IEELG was the International Educational Exchange Liaison Group of which NAFSA was a founding member and it appears to have been a policy/advocacy group

“Manual for Study Abroad Evaluations” (1995) by the Commission on Higher Education Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

“Study Abroad Programs: An Evaluation Guide” (1979) prepared by ANTFOSA, The Task Force on Study Abroad of the American Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers (AACRAO) and the National Association for Foreign Student Affairs (NAFSA)

“Guidelines on Developing Campus Services for Students Going Abroad” (1973) edited by Sandra W. Soule for the Student Advisory Committee of the Council on International Educational Exchange

“Recording the Performance of U.S. Undergraduates at British Institutions: Guidelines Toward Standardized Reporting for Study Abroad” (1988) edited by David Rex and Thomas Roberts for the National Association for Foreign Student Affairs (NAFSA)

“Study Abroad: Handbook for Advisers and Administrators, Guideline Series: 10” (1979) by the Field Service Program of the National Association for Foreign Student Affairs

“SECUSSA Sourcebook: A Guide for Advisors of U.S. Students Planning an Overseas Experience” (1975) by the National Association for Foreign Student Affairs

“Criteria for Good Study-Abroad Programs and In Budgets There is Power: Fiscal Concepts for International Education Administrators, NAFSA Working Paper #34” (1992) by Paula Spier for NAFSA: Association of International Educators

Finally, last week I received two boxes of NAFSA Region V conference/planning documents from late 1970's through the 1980's from a senior colleague in the international education field. What great archival donation! This person and I are now coordinating his donation of similar documents from his tenure on the NAFSA SECUSSA (Section on US Students Abroad) national team. This was the third such donation I have received in the last two years. If you would like to donate international education related items from your personal library I would love to hear from you! You can contact me at international.ed.consulting@gmail.com

What’s with the name “Bury Book International Education Library & Archive”? I’ve touched on this before on IHEC Blog’s Facebook page and hope to write more about this on IHEC Blog in the future.
Photo Credit: Marxchivist

Note on the photo: in the photo you will see Harper Memorial Library (the book cover ~ bottom center). What’s nice about this is that my office is located in the tower you see in the photo!
[1] Publications are not referenced in any formal style such as Chicago or APA but rather in David Comp blogging style. Publications are not listed in any particular order other than how they were placed on the stack.

Call for Authors - New "Reviews of Global Studies Literature"

There are some really great things happening over at the NAFSA Research/Scholarship Network (part of the larger Teaching, Learning & Scholarship Knowledge Community). The following post is simply a copy & past job from a recent Research/Scholarship Network call for authors. Many thanks to Rebecca Hovey for leading this effort and to Bryan McAllister-Grand for his work on this!

Members of the NAFSA Research/Scholarship Network (www.nafsa.org/rsnetwork) are working on a new pilot resource for the field, tentatively called "Reviews of Global Studies Literature." This online feature will consist of short reviews & synopses of recent research and literature.

The purpose of the project title is to include not only international education research and literature, but also relevant books for our profession in fields such as human rights, peace and justice, international relations, international studies, cross-cultural communication, psychology, anthropology, etc. A more complete description of the project with submission guidelines is available at http://www.brandeis.edu/globalbrandeis/office/RSReviewsOct2009.pdf or can be requested by email (see below).

We are writing today to invite you to be involved as a book review author for two initial "issues" in 2010. These reviews will be published online to the NAFSA Research/Scholarship Network, promoted in our
discussion forums, and in PDF form for download.

Book reviews will be of two types, although we would consider other creative proposals:

1. Book review *articles* will compare and review 3-5 related books in a short essay format of less than 1,000 words. The articles should take on one topic or regional area (e.g. "social justice," "global competence," or "Africa") and integrate book reviews with the author's knowledge/expertise of that topic. The article should also address the relevance of the books to the field of International Education.

2. Book *synopses* will be short reviews of individual books of approximately 1-2 paragraphs or less than 500 words.

Deadlines:

# January 15th 2010 submission deadline for mid-February 1st online Issue

# April 18th 2010 submission deadline for May NAFSA Conference online Issue

More information:

A project description with more details on submission guidelines, as well as a list of potential books to review, is available at http://www.brandeis.edu/globalbrandeis/office/RSReviewsOct2009.pdf

We hope you'll also consider suggesting other books for review so we can add to our list.

Please note that we can not provide copies of books, nor reimburse for purchasing expenses.

We hope you'll participate in this exciting project, which we hope grows into a kind of virtual "book club." Since the idea is still in development, we'd also welcome feedback about project design, book
choices, etc. Feel free to email either Rebecca or Bryan – contact details below.

Best,

Rebecca Hovey
World Learning
Rebecca.Hovey@sit.edu

Bryan McAllister-Grande
Brandeis University
bgrande@brandeis.edu

Members, NAFSA Sub-Committee on Research/Scholarship
Teaching, Learning, and Scholarship (TLS) Knowledge Community

NAFSA Bookstore to Sell Outside Publications again at Conference

During the upcoming NAFSA conference in Los Angeles the NAFSA Bookstore will be selling international education related titles from other publishers at the NAFSA Bookstore. NAFSA began selling outside publications a few years ago while I was on their Subcommittee on Information Management (SIM) and I learned that this was a big success (for NAFSA and the outside publishers) so I’m pleased to hear that they are continuing trend.

There are some excellent offerings this year from both NAFSA and other publishers. You can learn about all of the various NAFSA publications here on their website. Here is the list of non-NAFSA publications that will be available for review and purchase at the NAFSA Bookstore in Los Angeles:

- Educating Global Citizens in Colleges and Universities - Challenges and Opportunities (Routledge)

- The Handbook of Practice and Research in Study Abroad - Higher Education and the Quest for Global Citizenship (Routledge)

- Higher Education and International Student Mobility in the Global Knowledge Economy (SUNY Press)

- The First Time Effect: The Impact of Study Abroad on College Student Intellectual Development (SUNY Press)

- Developing Intercultural Competence and Transformation (Stylus Publishing)

- Driving Change Through Diversity and Globalization-Transformative Leadership in the Academy (Stylus Publishing)

Additionally, NAFSA members are eligible for discounts on cross- cultural resources from the Intercultural Press which I imagine will have a booth in the exhibit hall again this year.

If you’re interested in proposing a publication or writing for NAFSA I encourage you to visit their “Get Published in NAFSA Publications” page here. I encourage all conference attendees to find some time in their busy schedules to stop by the NAFSA Bookstore as this is a excellent opportunity to pick-up some great literature.