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Finding Leadership For The Internationalization Of U.S. Higher Education, Michael Smithee Dec 2011

Finding Leadership For The Internationalization Of U.S. Higher Education, Michael Smithee

Michael B. Smithee

The internationalization of U.S. higher education has depended on leadership from a variety of sources in different strengths and purposes over time. The leadership shifted from President Lyndon Johnson's sponsorship of legislation, as part of a trilogy of legislation known as the Great Society, to a collaborative and at times competitive leadership marked by a struggle to establish international education as legitimate focus for higher education institutions. Leadership came in the form of advocates for international education who were drawn from the stakeholders. These advocates included practitioners, researchers, professional organizations, and alliances. Leader-advocates also contended with philosophical changes in the …


Editor: 2010 Conference Abstracts, Michael Smithee, Guillermo De Lost Reyes Sep 2010

Editor: 2010 Conference Abstracts, Michael Smithee, Guillermo De Lost Reyes

Michael B. Smithee

Includes abstracts of papers presented at the 2010 Annual Conference.


Globalizing Culture: The Responsibility Of Higher Education To Encourage Cross-Cultural Understanding And To Maintain Higher Standards For Students By Frances Meres, Michael Smithee Mar 2010

Globalizing Culture: The Responsibility Of Higher Education To Encourage Cross-Cultural Understanding And To Maintain Higher Standards For Students By Frances Meres, Michael Smithee

Michael B. Smithee

No abstract provided.


Internationalizing English Courses And The English Major, By Barbara Hunt And Daniel Ross, Michael Smithee Mar 2010

Internationalizing English Courses And The English Major, By Barbara Hunt And Daniel Ross, Michael Smithee

Michael B. Smithee

No abstract provided.


Internationalization: A College/University Imperative By William B. Delauder, Michael Smithee Mar 2010

Internationalization: A College/University Imperative By William B. Delauder, Michael Smithee

Michael B. Smithee

No abstract provided.


Running With The Big Dogs: What International Scholars And Administrators Need To Know During Economically Challenging Times By Carl Patten, Michael Smithee Mar 2010

Running With The Big Dogs: What International Scholars And Administrators Need To Know During Economically Challenging Times By Carl Patten, Michael Smithee

Michael B. Smithee

No abstract provided.


Cultivating Cultural Curiosity: Incorporating International Students Into The Fabric Of Campus Internationalization, By Norma George, Michael Smithee Mar 2010

Cultivating Cultural Curiosity: Incorporating International Students Into The Fabric Of Campus Internationalization, By Norma George, Michael Smithee

Michael B. Smithee

No abstract provided.


Editor: The Medallion - Newsletter Of Phi Beta Delta, Honor Society For International Scholars, Michael Smithee Dec 2009

Editor: The Medallion - Newsletter Of Phi Beta Delta, Honor Society For International Scholars, Michael Smithee

Michael B. Smithee

Editor since 2006 for the Newsletter for the Honor Society, Phi Beta Delta. Contains articles about individuals, chapters, and ideas related to international education and Society activities.


Editor: 2009 Annual Conference Abstracts, Michael Smithee May 2009

Editor: 2009 Annual Conference Abstracts, Michael Smithee

Michael B. Smithee

The publication includes abstracts and contact information from papers presented at the Phi Beta Delta 2009 Annual Conference.


Why An International Honor Society?, Michael Smithee May 2009

Why An International Honor Society?, Michael Smithee

Michael B. Smithee

This article identifies the relationship between the Honor Society and international education on campuses through recognition, synergy, internationalization, and globalization.


U.S Classroom Culture, Michael Smithee, Sidney Greenblatt, Elisa Eland Dec 2003

U.S Classroom Culture, Michael Smithee, Sidney Greenblatt, Elisa Eland

Michael B. Smithee

U.S. Classroom Culture addresses issues of the American classroom for international students coming to the U.S. for study, as well as to acquaint faculty, teaching assistants, and international office staff of the problems international students may face in the U.S. classroom. These issues include but are not limited to: academic rules and policies, standards, expectations of U.S. faculty, variation in teaching and learning methods, American student perceptions of the classroom, grading, tests, terminology, and plagiarism.


Internationalism, Diversity, And Multiculturalism: Are They Compatible?, Michael Smithee Mar 1991

Internationalism, Diversity, And Multiculturalism: Are They Compatible?, Michael Smithee

Michael B. Smithee

This article is a qualitative study that explores the definitions and meanings of these three terms, and explains how a variety of higher education institutions organize their approaches to these terms.