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This chapter presents a brief analytic history of the initial 50 years of the Center for International Education (CIE) at the University of Massachusetts Amherst with the goal of understanding what made it possible and what can be learned from it for the future of Comparative and International Education programs in other universities. The chapter begins with the unusual context in which CIE was created and its commitment to a synergistic linkage between academics and managing funded, development education programs. The discussion then describes CIE’s defining characteristics, the challenges it faced, its current situation, and the insights that can be gleaned from its history. The chapter concludes with comments on the implications for the future shape of CE/IE graduate programs and centers at universities. The author is the Founding Director of CIE who has led the program for most of its 50-year history.
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Notes
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This chapter will use CIE to refer to the Center for International Education at UMass Amherst. Comparative Education and International Education programs will be referred to as CE/IE, not CIE programs as is often found in the literature.
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Over the following fifty years, UMass Amherst steadily improved to the point of being ranked in the top 25 public universities in 2019 (University of Massachusetts Amherst 2019).
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The author was one of about a dozen doctoral students that the new Dean brought to UMass from Stanford as newly appointed faculty members. We were all attracted by his vision of a new kind of College of Education and the opportunity to make a difference. The author joined two other faculty members in September of 1968 to start the Center for International Education.
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A doctoral dissertation by a graduate of CIE provides a fascinating and well-documented history of the first 25 years of CIE (Pfeiffer 1995).
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This chapter will use the term nonformal without a hyphen. Sources vary on the preferred usage.
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Documents and research produced by many of the projects discussed are available on the UMass Scholarworks site: https://scholarworks.umass.edu/cie/. Master’s capstone projects and doctoral dissertations based on the projects are also available there.
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By the early 2000s, half of the CIE faculty members were women.
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Examples of student-initiated courses included: Theory and Practice of NFE; Development Theories; Gender and Development; and Theater of the Oppressed.
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See Members section of CIE Web site (http://umass.edu/cie) for profiles of over 300 CIE graduates.
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The School of Education at UMass Amherst was renamed the College of Education in 2013.
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Wilson (1994, p. 470) mentions CIE in a paragraph that names the faculty members who helped start CIE and where they earned their degrees.
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Evans, D.R. (2021). Training ‘Deep Practitioners’: 50 Years of the Center for International Education at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. In: Lindsay, B. (eds) Comparative and International Education. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-64290-7_10
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