ABSTRACT
In recent years, the word “internationalization” has been uttered more and more often on college and university campuses across the United States of America. Most members of the higher education world agree with the mission of increasing the international component of their curricula, and many schools have announced new programs and initiatives to do so. The American Council on Education (ACE) has put internationalization high on its agenda since the 1950s. Intent on understanding how effectively this new focus has influenced American undergraduate education in this half-century, in 2000 ACE initiated a study of the question. Study results, titled Mapping Internationalization on U.S. Campuses: Final Report 2003, included good and bad news. “Higher education has made some progress in internationalizing the undergraduate experience in the past 15 years,” the report stated, “but there is still much work to do.” 1
