one -- many institutions of higher education are gradually slipping a hip onto

the international education bandwagon, an efficacious transport toward the

postmodern world. Academic journals to stimulate research and publishing in

the discipline have emerged in recent years, among them the Journal of

Studies in International Education, which published its first issue in the

spring of 1997, and Frontiers:The Interdisciplinary Journal of Study Abroad,

which began in the fall of 1995. Web sites, including program-specific ones at

most college and universities as well as the more inclusive studyabroad.com,

provide ready access to information. Terms used for international education

programs are exceedingly diverse:academic mobility, international

cooperation, study abroad, intercultural education, multicultural education,

peace education, cross-cultural education, international exchange,

globalization of higher education, internationalization of higher education,

and comparative education.⁴Similarly, not only the terms but the locations

for international programs are multiple. One directory, Academic Year Abroad

1996/97, lists 2,371 programs in 80 countries, many in Latin America, Africa

and Asia. Earlier, most of the study-abroad programs were based in western

Europe, in locations considered "safer" and less dissimilar from the experience

of white, middle-class U.S. students, who were the primary participants in

these educational opportunities.

Church-related liberal arts colleges and universities have been among

the leaders in the internationalization of higher education. In this volume,

Dominic Scibilia writes, in part, about Catholic-affiliated Siena Heights

4_{This listing is from Hans de Wit, "Studies in International Education:A}
Research Perspective," Journal of Studies in International Education1.1
(Spring 1997):3.

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