The Global Professional

The Global Professional

Blog Article

As educators in an increasingly global society, we realize that we need to train students-undergraduate and graduate-to live helmets and work in a global environment.This idea is not a new one; scholars, administrators, and government officials have been promoting similar notions for several decades, especially since the advent of the Cold War.David Ward, president of the American Council on Education, emphasized at the home 2003 annual meeting of the National Association of State Universities and Land Grant Colleges that international education can no longer be considered "business as usual." The concept that graduates must have cross-cultural knowledge and expertise -long recognized in the languages and humanities-has steadily gained support to become an important goal and a marker of achievement for many professional schools in the United States today.