Responding to the Needs of Our Nation: A Look at the Fulbright and NSEP Education Acts
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.36366/frontiers.v1i1.11Keywords:
Fulbright Amendment, National Security Education Act of 1991, study abroad, education abroad, higher educationAbstract
This article looks at the federal government’s two major forays into education abroad—Fulbright’s amendment to the Surplus Property Act in 1946, and the National Security Education Act of 1991. Part I is a brief outline of the historical precedents for federal involvement. Parts II and III provide an overview of the so-called Fulbright and Boren Acts, respectively. How the pieces of legislation embody the personal ideas of each senator is reflected in Part IV. Next, Part V underscores the appealing political features of each text. Part VI traces the conceptual evolution of “national security” since World War II, and Part VII focuses on what all this has meant for higher education. In this article, I show how changes over the forty-five-year span between the two acts has influenced their provisions, their tones, and, ultimately, their outcomes after passage.
Downloads
References
Bok, Derek. Universities and the Future of America. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1990.
Boren, David L., “Why Am I Leaving the Senate” New York Times, May 13, 1994, 143: A31.
Burn, Barbara B. Expanding the International Dimension of Higher Education. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1980.
-----. “The Unfulfilled Promise of Exchange,” Chronicle of Higher Education, September 11, 1991, 38:3, A52.
Current Biography Yearbook 1955. New York: H.W. Wilson Company, 1955.
Current Biography Yearbook 1989. New York: H.W. Wilson Company, 1989.
Desruisseaux, Paul. “A Foreign Student Record,” Chronicle of Higher Education, December 1, 1993, 40: 16, A42.
-----. “Education Leaders Urge US Strategy for Coordinating International Exchanges,” Chronicle of Higher Education, November 25, 1992, 39: 14, A27(3).
-----. “Expanding International Study,” Chronicle of Higher Education, Novermber 21, 1993, 40: 15, A34-35.
-----. “US Enrolls Record Number of Foreign Students,” Chronicle of Higher Education, November 23, 1994, 41: 13, A38.
Fulbright, J. William. “Sovereignty and the Charter,” The New Republic, August 6, 1945, 113: 158-159.
-----. “The Leglislator,” Vital Speeches, May 15, 1946, 12: 468-472. Glazer Nathan, ed. The Fulbright Experience and Academic Exchanges in Lambert, Richard D., ed., The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science. Newbury Park, CA: SAGE, 1987.
Goodwin, Craufurd D., and Nacht, Michael. Abroad and Beyond. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988.
Jaschick, Scott, “Pentagon Plans Major Revisions in Controversial Exchange Program” Chronicle of Higher Education, March 31, 1993, 39: 30, A34.
Johnson, Walter, and Colligan, Francis J. The Fulbright Program: A History. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press.
Kerr, Clark. “International Learning and National Purposes in Higher Education,” American Behavioral Scientist, September-October, 1991, 35:1, 17-3.
“A Legislative Infant Needing Care . . .,” New York Times, October 2, 1993, 143: 22.
Meyer, Steve M, “Revolutionary Changes in East-West Relations Should Revitalize the Field of Security Studies,” Chronicle of Higher Education, February 7, 1990. 36: 21, A56.
Millett, Allan R. Academic Education in National Security Policy. Columbus: Mershon Center of the Ohiot State Unversity, 1997.
A Process of Global Enlightenment, Washington, DC: Board of ForeignScholarships, November, 1976.
Raymond, Chris. “Economists Say Plan to Trim U.S. Defense Budget May Force Rethinking of National Security Goals,” Chronicle of Higher Education, January 10, 1990, 36: 17: A6.
Reid, Joy M., ed. Building the Professional Dimension of Educational Exchange, Yarmouth, ME: Intercultural Press, 1988.
Riddle, Wayne Clifton. “National Security Education Act of 1991: Summary and Analysis,” CRS Report for Congress, January 15, 1992, 1.
Schultz, Richard; Godson, Richard; and Greenwood, Ted, eds. Security Studies for the 1990s. McLean, VA: Brassey’s, 1993.
U.S. Senate. Congressional Record. September 26, 1991. Washington, DC. U.S. Government Printing Office, 137: 15, @13789.
U.S. Senate. Congressional Record. October 16, 1991. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 143: 148. S14782.
U.S. Senate. “Foreign Educational Benefits and Suirplus Property” Hearing Before a Subcommittee of the Committee on Military Affairs, 79th Congress, 2nd Session, February 25, 1946, Washington, DC: U.S.
Government Printing Office, 1946, 5.
U.S. Senate. U.S. Code Congresional and Administrative News. 102nd Congress, 1st Session. St. Paul, MN: West Publishing, 1991, vol. 2, 861.
Watkins, Beverly. “Scholars Push for Revitalization of the Fulbright Program” Chronicle of Higher Education, April 14, 1993, 39: 32, A40(3).
“Why Mr. Truman Doesn’t Quit,” U.S. News and World Report, November 15, 1946, 21:34.
Wollitzer, Peter A. “Global Change and the Internationalization of Higher Education,” American Behavioral Scientist, September-October 1991, 35:1, 1-16.
