YouTube interview with researcher & co-author of “Cultural Borders and Mental Barriers: The Relationship Between Living Abroad and Creativity"

There has been some recent buzz in several media outlets and in the blogosphere on some recent research focusing on creativity and living abroad. I just discovered this INSEAD Knowledge series video (10:34) interview with William Maddux, one of the co-researchers/authors, on YouTube. I won't summarize the research or the interview in this post as I just wanted to put this on your radar.




Here is the non-APA, non-Chicago Manual of Style citation should you want to track down the article:
“Cultural Borders and Mental Barriers: The Relationship Between Living Abroad and Creativity” by William W. Maddux from INSEAD and Adam D. Galinsky from Northwestern University published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Vol. 96, No. 5, 1047-1061 (2009)

This is the fifth Friday that I’m posting to IHEC Blog with links of interest I’ve pulled off of Twitter this past week. I’ve changed the title and focus of this weekly post slightly…I hope you find some of these links of interest. As always, topics/titles are live links so please click away!

GlobaLinks NewsWire to participate in Blog Action Day 2009

Record number of applications received! (via @GilmanProgram)

Nat'l Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program (abroad); up to $30K/year (via @uhhglobe)

"International students could pay off Australia's debt, says Bernard Salt"

What are you doing for International Education Week, November 16-20, 2009?

"US voices concern over Turkmenistan’s bid to stop students traveling to foreign universities"

"Exchange We Can Believe In"

International Student Travel Video Contest 2009

Dissertations relating to Peace Corps (via @

PeaceCorpsWiki)

Thinking global: Victoria's action plan for international education [September 2009] (via @IDPDRIE)

Complete information on the Fulbright-Hays Fellowship Programs (via @

CitizenDiplomat)

Interested in teaching for global justice or international education? check out AAC&U's social network (via @sharedfutures)

Study abroad isn't just for foreign language students (via @pdxnicolle)

International 'Leapfrogging'

You can follow me on Twitter at http://twitter.com/DavidComp

Two-Week Summer Graduate Seminar on Study Abroad in Rome, Italy

Loyola University Chicago’s School of Education will again be offering a unique opportunity this summer for graduate students to participate in a two-week (July 4-17, 2010) graduate seminar focusing on U.S. students who study abroad at Loyola’s John Felice Rome Center Campus.

The seminar is ELPS 429: U.S. Students Abroad: Lessons from Rome in Cultural Immersion (see the summer 2009 syllabus here) carries 3 graduate level semester hours and will be taught by Terry Williams. I’m a doctoral student at Loyola in Comparative and International Education and while I never took this course, due to work conflicts, I’ve only heard positive feedback from those I’ve known who have taken the course. Terry Williams has taught this same course in Rome for several summers now.

If you are interested in this graduate level seminar please visit Loyola’s website for summer programs here and you can reach Terry Williams at twillia@luc.edu.

Of special note: The John Felice Rome Center is the oldest continually operating U.S. university program in Italy.

IHEC Blog posts will be sporatic this and next week...

The Fulbright U.S. Student Program 2010-2011 season is in HIGH gear for me right now and I truly look forward to October 20th when I mail the box of 69 undergraduate applications from the University of Chicago this year! Don't get me wrong...I LOVE the Fulbright program and, more importantly, talking to students about their research, study and English teaching assistantship plans abroad. With that in mind I hope that regular IHEC Blog readers will be patient as I won't be able to post every Monday-Friday as normal during this week and next week. My evenings at home and lunch hour are consumed with Fulbright related work. Additionally, I'm trying to do a little research for my dissertation, tentatively titled Towards the Development of a Methodology to Measure Public Diplomacy Outcomes of International Education Programs, and both of these activities limit the amount of time I have to think of and prepare the daily IHEC Blog post. If you would like to become a regular/frequent/guest contributor to IHEC Blog please read my post from Monday with more details.

The Fulbright U.S. Student Program I'm working on is not to be confused with the equally prestigious (arguably more prestigious) Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad (DDRA) Fellowship Program. The U.S. Center for Citizen Diplomacy has some really good information about this program on their blog which you can read here.

IHEC Blog Call for Regular/Frequent/Guest Contributors

This post is a call for regular, frequent and guest contributors to International Higher Education Consulting Blog. As International Higher Education Consulting Blog is growing in popularity the demands for the upkeep are competing with family, my professional job and my dissertation obligations so I’ve decided to post this call for contributors. I’ve had several guest contributors in the past and these posts are sometimes the most popular posts for the week or even for the month.

I’m looking for colleagues in the international education and public/citizen diplomacy fields who are interested in highlighting new developments in the field(s) or who are interested in generating discussion/debate on topics that fit within the focus of International Higher Education Consulting Blog. Those who understand and appreciate the value of new media are especially sought after. Guest contributors to International Higher Education Consulting Blog receive no compensation for their submissions.

Following is the current description of International Higher Education Consulting Blog that is currently posted on the blog:

International Higher Education Consulting Blog provides timely news and informational pieces that are of interest to both the international education and public diplomacy[i] communities. From time to time, International Higher Education Consulting Blog will post thought provoking pieces to challenge readers and to encourage comments and professional dialogue.

This post is not a call for contributors whose posts would not relate to the focus of International Higher Education Consulting Blog. I reserve full right to not accept any requests to contribute to International Higher Education Consulting Blog as well as the right to decline any submissions.

If you are interested in becoming a regular, frequent or guest contributor to International Higher Education Consulting Blog I want to hear from you about your ideas about the types of posts you would be interested in preparing as well as the frequency of your contributions. Please e-mail me at international.ed.consulting@gmail.com

Thank you in advance.

David Comp
Editor & Publisher of International Higher Education Consulting Blog

[i] Please refer to this previous International Higher Education Consulting Blog post for clarification on public diplomacy talk on this blog: http://ihec-djc.blogspot.com/2009/09/point-of-clarification-on-public.html

Links of Interest for the Week of Sept. 26th to Oct. 2nd

Links of Interest for the Week of Sept. 26th to Oct. 2nd

The following are links of interest that I pulled from my Twitter posts and retweeted Twitter posts. I hope you find them of interest:

The ICC Network highlights IHEC Blog & IEB&N Blog on their network page

Sizing up the competition: the future of international postsecondary student enrollment in the US (via @IDPDRIE)

Internationalization Monitor of Education in the Netherlands 2008 (via @IDPDRIE)

I added more to IHEC Blog post "Is International Education an Agent of Democratization?"

List of Faith Based Exchange Programs (courtesy of The U.S. Center for Citizen Diplomacy, @CitizenDiplomat)

Glamour, not strategy, drives students abroad (UK)

New, stricter rules for student visas in UK (via @IIEglobal)

More Diversity Sought Among U.S. Participants in Study Abroad Programs

"End the Travel Ban on Cuba" a campaign by the LAWG

UC Berkeley researchers say US needs "national strategy" to recruit foreign students up to 1.25 million (via @IIEglobal)

NAFSA.news: Promoting Education Abroad at Community Colleges (via @NAFSA)

American Diplomacy's Latest Issue (via @pdworldwide)

International students: a $100 billion business? (via @WESFans)

Monday Morning blog post now up on US Center for Citizen Diplomacy's site (via @CitizenDiplomat)

Sign the "Initiative for Global Citizen Diplomacy" petition! (via @CitizenDiplomat)

'The Chinese Are Coming'

"Talking with the Harvard Public Diplomacy Collaborative"

Earlier this week on was going through research notes and non-published manuscripts and went on a Twitter fest and sent several tweets relating to the history of international education. Following are a few of my Twitter posts:

- The United Kingdom reported that the number of non-European Union international students rose 23% during 2002-2003 over the previous year

- Enrollment figures for international students in the U.S. dropped 2.4% in 2003-2004

- By September 11, 2002 the US had a web based student data collection system known as the Interim Student & Exchange Authentication System

- On June 18 1999, British Prime Minister Tony Blair launched a new international education policy for the United Kingdom

- The National Security Education Act of 1991 established the Boren National Security Education Program Trust Fund

- The International Student Exchange Program was initially funded by a grant from the United States Information Agency (USIA) until 1996

- The National Defense Education Act of 1958 highlighted the critical importance of education to national defense

- It's estimated that approx. 350K German POWs participated in re-education programs & took what they learned back to Germany

- In 1948 the United States Congress passed The U.S. Information and Educational Exchange Act (also known as The Smith-Mundt Act)

- In 1947 the US Office of Military Government w/ US DoS initiated program to bring almost 10K Germans to U.S. to learn democratic principles

- The Fulbright Act of 1946 set in motion a great history of int'l education exchange between the United States and the rest of the world

- 1936 Buenos Aires Convention called for exchanges to strengthen intellectual cooperation & cultural relations between US & Latin America

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IHEC Blog reviews "Cheating in School: What We Know and What We Can Do"

Cheating in School: What We Know and What We Can Do

Today on IHEC Blog I will be reviewing/highlighting a new book entitled Cheating in School: What We Know and What We Can Do by Stephen F. Davis, Patrick F. Drinan, and Tricia Bertram Gallant. Cheating in School is writtern by a distinguished group of authors and is published by Wiley-Blackwell. The table of contents are as follows:

· Chapter One: Cheating in Our Schools, Colleges, and Universities: A Critical Problem for the Twenty-First Century. Outlines how cheating is manifested and justified in the modern, competitive academic environment, and its long-term effects on personal and institutional character.

· Chapter Two: The Nature and Prevalence of Student Cheating. Pinpoints the history of the phenomenon, case studies and statistics, with an international cross-comparison.

· Chapter Three: Reasons for Academic Dishonesty—Situation, Disposition, and Changing Times. Explores the evolution of cheating behavior and the more deep-seated psychological issues which keep the behavior in play.

· Chapter Four: From Cheat Sheet to Text Messaging—The Evolution of Techniques. Considers different venues for cheating opportunities: classroom tests, lab reports, internet plagiarism and online classes in the context of cheating prevention.

· Chapter Five: Short-Term Deterrents—Strategies for Class, Labs, and Online Testing. Discusses detection methods, penalties, and deterrents for each of the venues outlined in the previous chapter.

· Chapter Six: Long-Term Deterrents—Development of Individual and Institutional Integrity. A focus on moral development and ethical solutions on both an individual and institutional level.

· Chapter Seven: The Call for Action and Wisdom—Conversations That Make a Difference. An emphasis on accountability and communication within institutions and at home, as well as the power of mentor-based models.

· Chapter Eight: Refining Our Tactics and Strategies. Proposal of different types of practical reform strategies (“crusading,” “challenging,” “modest, or “gestural”) that parents, teachers, and institutional leaders can practically implement.

· Chapter Nine: An Optimistic (and Provocative) Conclusion—Finding the Good in Student Cheating. Observations from experts including Newsweek’s Dr. Fareed Zakaria on the broad and powerful societal influences facing kids today, and how they can be used as a basis for creative and meaning-based learning.

Cheating in School does discuss the internationalizaiton of the academic integrity movement which is of particular interest to me of course. Davis, Drinan and Gallant emphasize that "internationalization of the academic integrity movement is virtually inevitable but its forms and variety of impacts are only now being anticipated...internationalization of the academic interity movement is the one whose direction is most uncertain yet may need to be upgraded to a strategy. Much reseach needs to be conducted on cross-cultural attributes before internationalization can migrate to the status of a strategy, however." I couldn't agree more that more research needs to be done in this area! Any doctoral students out there need a dissertation topic?

In sum, I found Cheating in School to be a good read and while I wish there was a bit more focus on the internationalization of the academic integrity movement and intercultural issues associated with academic dishonesty I recommend this book to both faculty and administrators who must deal with this issue in their work. You can order Cheating in School: What We Know and What We Can Do here.