What’s changed and what hasn’t changed since my first foray more than 20 years ago into international education as a high school student on a friendship tour in the USSR? As I reflect on the field of International Education this week along with colleagues from around the world, the word shrinking comes to mind in positive and negative ways – a shrinking world, shrinking resources, and shrinking time.
I grew up in the heartland of America listening to rhetoric about the “Evil Empire” and the nuclear arms race. My school didn’t have a globalized curriculum; the student body was not diverse. Yet, I was compelled to learn more about the world; to make it a better place. My story is not unique.
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