International Educator - November/December 2008

International Educator (IE) is the flagship bimonthly magazine of NAFSA: Association of International Educators. IE maintains the highest standards of intellectual quality, editorial excellence, and design to service its readers who are working worldwide to advance international education and exchange.

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Cover Story

Making Strides South of the Sahara

In sub-Saharan Africa, three major needs—to improve awareness of HIV/AIDS, increase access to distance learning, and develop better teacher education—are high priorities. Many universities, corporations, and organizations from abroad are stepping in to help the region address these challenges.

 

Features

Nursing Goes Global

Florence Nightingale, the mother of nursing, left home to care for the sick and wounded soldiers in the Crimean War. Today’s nurses are serving the needs of our global community and graduate nursing programs are up to the challenge as they internationalize curricula.

Study Abroad Mandate Brings Students and Challenges to Goucher College

What began as a small woman's college in 1885, Goucher College has now become the first traditional liberal arts college in the nation (now co-educational) to require everyone to have an education abroad experience.

Departments

Across Cultures

Shifting Demographics in Sub-Saharan Africa
By Juba Shabani

Frontlines

Creating Staying Power for U.S.-Based Internationals
By Stuart Anderson

Forum

Becoming North American
By Robert Pastor

In Focus

Body Language
Charlotte Blessing

Third Annual Health and Insurance Supplement

Why Insurance?
By Joanna Holvey Bowles

What’s in YOUR policy?
By Julie Friend

From the Editors

Christopher Murphy

In Brief

• NAFSA and NASULGC Launch Center for Study Abroad
• NAFSA Outlines Policy Proposals for Incoming Administration
• Celebrate International Education Week 2008
• Expanding Opportunities in China
• Lieutenant Governors Call For U.S. International Education Policy
• Lofty Goals in Asia
• Movement to End Free Tuition for Foreign Students in Sweden, Finland
• NAFSA Web Site Wins Gold Circle Award
• $17 Million Windfall for International Initiatives at Spelman
• Tighter Rules in UK for Foreign Students

Past as Prologue

Alan Desoff

Voices

Elaina Loveland

Education Abroad

By Charlotte West

Foreign Student Affairs

By Eve Katz