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| In September 1958, U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed the momentous national Defense Education Act (NDEA), a piece of legislation that forever bound together national security and global educational pursuit. The new funding infrastructure would set the stage for providing language acquisition and world area studies training to students, at the same time providing for the training of teachers of languages and cultures for future generations.
IU's Office of International Programs hosted a national conference in Washington, D.C., "International Education in American Colleges and Universities" to celebrate the 40th anniversary of NDEA in April 1998. Two books, Globalization and the Challenges of a New Century: A Reader (2000), edited by IU's Patrick O'Meara, Howard Mehlinger and Matthew Krain, and Changing Perspectives on International Education (2001), edited by O'Meara, Mehlinger and Roxana Ma Newman were published by IU Press. Go to this HP archival site for more:
http://www.iuinfo.indiana.edu/homepages/050898/text/title6.htm | |
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