This book examines the development of American undergraduate study abroad to the present day, investigating how powerful derogatory beliefs about international exchange have constrained its growth and examining the policy designed to increase participation in overseas education. In the early twentieth century, Americans came to perceive U.S. higher education as superior to the European institutions they previously admired. Whereas American men once sought European educations to pursue the professions, they now stayed home. After World War I, study abroad became the domain of undergraduate...
This book examines the development of American undergraduate study abroad to the present day, investigating how powerful derogatory beliefs about inte...