International Education at the Crossroads

Hilary E. Kahn is Associate Vice Chancellor for International Affairs and Associate Professor of Anthropology at IUPUI, as well as Indiana University Associate Vice President of International Affairs. She is also an IU Bicentennial Professor, editor for the Framing the Global book series with IU Press, and past president of the Association of International Education Administrators (AIEA). Deborah N. Cohn is Provost Professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese and Interim Director of the College Arts and Humanities Institute at Indiana University.  She is the author of The Latin American Literary Boom and U.S. Nationalism during the Cold War (2012) and History and Memory in the Two Souths: Recent Southern and Spanish American Fiction (1999). She has received awards from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Harry Ransom Center, the Rockefeller Archive Center, and others.

International education requires that everyone the world over work together to produce new knowledge, to navigate the "crossroads,and to collectively chart the directions in which the field will move into the future.

IntroductionI. Internationalization in a Global Context1. The Importance of Increasing Our Investment in International Education2. Internationalizing Education as We Move Deeply into the 21st Century3. What's Happening to the World?4. Going, Golden, Gone? Internationalization's Past, Present, and Future5. The Globalization of Internationalization?6. Why International Education: Recent Past, Present, and Future7. The Broadest Possible EducationII. Legacies of Title VI, Area & Global Studies8. In Praise of Title IV9. The Political Economy of International Education in the United States10. Area Studies in the Light of New Theoretical and Global Developments11. The Future of International Studies and Area Studies12. Global Education for Generation ZIII. Languages13. Priorities in Language Study: Campus Trends, Future Needs14. Ensuring U.S. National Capacity in World Languages and Cultures for the 21st Century15. Myaamiaataweenki: The Myaamia Language16. How and Why to Promote Multilingualism in U.S. Schools17. International Education: Just a Fancy Idea for a Few, or a Vital Component of Higher Education and of Our Future?VI. Internationalization in Practice18. From International to Global: Rethinking Worldwide Engagement19. Global Education, Educating Globally20. Growing Global Competence in the Midwest21. A View from Somewhere22. Lessons from History... Made in IndianaV. Crossroads: Agencies, Mechanisms, and a Nation23. Reflections on Title VI from a National Perspective24. U.S. Department of Education International and Foreign Language Education Programs25. International Education and Exchanges Offer Effective Education Diplomacy for the United States26. Foreign Language and International Education-A Critical Requirement: A Practitioner's ViewIndexList of Contributors