International Education: How It Is Defined by U.S. Students and Foreign Students

Abstract

Do U.S. college students and foreign college students who are currently pursuing education in the United States see eye-to-eye when defining international education and the competencies that make up a globalor international-minded citizen? The purpose of this study was to compare U.S. students' perceptions of international education and related competencies with similar perceptions of foreign students. Some comments made by Hans de Wit, director of the Office of Foreign Relations at the University of Amsterdam and vice president of the European Association of Intemrnational Educators (EAIE), were the inspiration for the study. In his 1993 review of Bridges to the Future: Strategies for Internationalizing Higher Education (Klasek, Garavalia, and Kellerman 1992), de Wit sounds a call for a debate on differences between the definition of international educa-

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