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Try:

http://www.nafsa.org/ or
http://www.indiana.edu/~intlprog/

Mark Twain
“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts,” wrote Mark Twain in The Innocents Abroad in 1869. “Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one’s lifetime.”

And with that in mind, Home Pages recommends a trip to the Web site of NAFSA: Association of International Educators, which recently named IU Bloomington among the premier institutions of higher learning in promoting internationalization (see article). NAFSA was founded in 1948 as the National Association of Foreign Student Advisers, thus the acronym, which has remained through subsequent name changes. Among its Web features are ways in which member institutions have responded to the war and resources for health and safety for travel abroad. The second Web site, the IU Office of International Programs, links to IU campuses’ programs. An historical note: In September 1958, President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed the national Defense Education Act, legislation that forever bound together national security and global educational pursuit. The new funding infrastructure set the stage for providing language acquisition and world area studies training to students while providing for the training of teachers of languages and cultures. Read more at this HP archival site:

http://www.iuinfo.indiana.edu/homepages/050898/text/title6.htm

 
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Publication date: April 25, 2003
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