Postwar Era Precedents and the Ambivalent Quest for International Students at the University of Florida

Terzian, Sevan G.; Osborne, Leigh Ann

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“…Universities themselves were coming into the debate with different considerations in mind. Among the multiversity cohort in particular, university presidents, chancellors, and senior administrators did not necessarily disagree with the consensus view about the use of the foreign student (Terzian and Osborne 2006). In practice, however, increased foreign student cohorts-particularly from Asia, Latin America, and Africa-presented a number of political hurdles for the modern multiversity leader.…”

Section: Exporters Of Democracy 1945-1968mentioning

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The Uses of the Foreign Student

O'Mara¹

2012

Social Science History

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The rise of the global university is often associated with the concomitant wave of late twentieth-century neoliberalism and privatization and correlated with universities embracing “corporate” models of governance. However, it is a phenomenon with roots in the earliest years of the Cold War that emerged out of a set of institutions and policies with diplomatic rather than explicitly economic aims. Notable among these were the programs aimed at bringing foreign students and scholars to the United States and exporting American-style educational experiences abroad. While only a fraction of these foreign visitors had the US government as their primary financial sponsor, they as a class became the object onto which political values of a particular era were projected, from the postwar internationalism of the Truman years to the Great Society liberalism of Lyndon B. Johnson to the free market ethos of Richard M. Nixon and Ronald Reagan. The decentralized and privatized means by which policy makers administered these measures obscured the degree to which they influenced the shape of the higher education system and their wider impacts on the American economy and society. This article explores international educational exchange as a critical element of American universities’ evolving public identity during the Cold War and post–Cold War periods and as an example of the governmental use of the university as an agent of state power and as a tool of political ideology.

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Section: Exporters Of Democracy 1945-1968mentioning

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The Uses of the Foreign Student

O'Mara¹

2012

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“…Among the multiversity cohort in particular, university presidents, chancellors, and senior administrators did not necessarily disagree with the consensus view about the use of the foreign student (Terzian and Osborne 2006). In practice, however, increased foreign student cohorts -particularly from Asia, Latin America, and Africa-presented a number of political hurdles for the modern multiversity leader.…”

Section: Exporters Of Democracy 1945-1968mentioning

confidence: 90%

The Uses of the Foreign Student

O'Mara¹

2012

Social Science History

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The rise of the global university is often associated with the concomitant wave of late twentieth-century neoliberalism and privatization and correlated with universities embracing "corporate" models of governance. However, it is a phenomenon with roots in the earliest years of the Cold War that emerged out of a set of institutions and policies with diplomatic rather than explicitly economic aims. Notable among these were the programs aimed at bringing foreign students and scholars to the United States and exporting American-style educational experiences abroad. While only a fraction of these foreign visitors had the US government as their primary financial sponsor, they as a class became the object onto which political values of a particular era were projected, from the postwar internationalism of the Truman years to the Great Society liberalism of Lyndon B. Johnson to the free market ethos of Richard M. Nixon and Ronald Reagan. The decentralized and privatized means by which policy makers administered these measures obscured the degree to which they influenced the shape of the higher education system and their wider impacts on the American economy and society. This article explores international educational exchange as a critical element of American universities' evolving public identity during the Cold War and post-Cold War periods and as an example of the governmental use of the university as an agent of state power and as a tool of political ideology.

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“…When J. Wayne Reitz became president of the university in 1954, he saw the importance of the university to world events. He adopted the Cold War ideologies of the national conservative movement, hoping to inspire the university's foreign graduates to become ambassadors for the United States and cultivate new allies overseas (Terzian and Osborne 2006). Integration was not among his priorities, although the university quietly admitted seven Black students to the undergraduate division in 1962 (Clawson 2011).…”

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Coming Out of the Campus Closet: The Emerging Visibility of Queer Students at the University of Florida, 1970–1982

Clawson

2014

Educational Studies

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This historical work chronicles the emergence of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgendered, and queer (LGBTQ) student visibility at the University of Florida from 1970 to 1982. It focuses on the establishment of an LGBTQ student group and student reactions to queer visibility. This work relies heavily on the student newspaper for the student perspective, and shows how the emergence of queer students was part of the expansion of student affairs offices and how queer student movements grew from other social protest movements. Higher education history has almost entirely omitted queer experiences, and queer history has not looked deeply into higher education. Student activism on college campuses has a long and storied history, typically associated with civil rights and the Black power movement for African Americans, antiwar protests, feminism, and environmentalism. Queer activism emerged in the 1970s, both on campuses and off. Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer people were speaking and acting out for their right to be visible and out of the closet (Beemyn 2003;Blount 2005;D'Emilio 1983;Suran 2001). As historian Karen Graves has shown, Florida is significant to queer history because of its unique experiences with state-sanctioned persecution of queer people (Graves 2009).

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Postwar Era Precedents and the Ambivalent Quest for International Students at the University of Florida

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The Uses of the Foreign Student

The Uses of the Foreign Student

Coming Out of the Campus Closet: The Emerging Visibility of Queer Students at the University of Florida, 1970–1982

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