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A scan of university web pages will reveal the growing trend in the internationalization of postsecondary education as if to suggest that our educational challenges to date have been addressed, and we are now ready to take the next step: changing our student population, curricular practices, and approaches to education so that we will become global enterprises. Taking a small selection of the website language, we read that these international programs are intended to: ‘prepare students for life in a rapidly changing global society;’ ‘build understanding of integral relationships among the people of the world;’ ‘create an international milieu on campus;’ ‘inculcate internationalism throughout the curriculum’; ‘create an international outlook among faculty and staff’; and ‘transform every graduate into a world citizen.”
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James, C.E., Cullinan, C.C., Abdi, A.A. (2013). Internationalizing Postsecondary Education. In: Hébert, Y., Abdi, A.A. (eds) Critical Perspectives on International Education. Comparative and International Education, vol 15. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6091-906-0_9
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