ABSTRACT
American commitment to educate so-called international students, from countries like China, goes back to the early 20th century. The Parochial Challenge Arguably the biggest challenge involves the tension between global education needs and goals, and a strongly parochial American society. Any global education program, anywhere, faces decisions about selectivity: it will never be possible to train most students in the knowledge levels globalists themselves aspire to. The opportunity to evaluate global education's needs and prospects in the "post" climate—post-9/11, post-Iraqi invasion and the souring of world opinion, and with the prospect of post-Bush—is important to exploit. The urgency and complexity of global education issues increasingly impinge on the work of non-specialist administrators as well, even in such far-removed reaches as budget and planning and certainly in areas like student life. The divide between American power and global involvement, and awareness of international conditions is both great and troubling.
