From Main Street to the Left Bank

📖 The Scoop

This is the second of a series which the Institute of Research Overseas at Michigan State University is producing on the international programs of American universities. The authors highlight many insights that those involved in planning and evaluating current educational exchange programs should be kept in mind: programs should require significant intellectual effort; the impact of educational exchange is upon visiting scholars, not the host culture; Americans need to know a great deal more about other peoples and their cultures; benefits of educational exchanges increase as the student gains intellectual maturity and the ability to work independently; and at the professor level it would be better to cultivate and promote exchanges developing naturally among scholars. Attention to these points would greatly benefit designers of educational exchange recruitment campaigns.

Genre: Education / Student Life & Student Affairs (fancy, right?)