ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses some of the general concerns and challenges that international education produces, cutting across particular areas, preparatory to a conclusion about global education and its future more broadly. Particularly in developing programs abroad, certainly in study abroad and increasingly in recruiting and pleasing international students, it is vital to learn from others even as American educational values and achievements are highlighted. Discussions with foreign officials must similarly balance essential claims about what an American education "must" involve (including freedom of inquiry) with acknowledgement not only of local customs but of local educational merits that can be embraced in a collaborative enterprise. Global education raises complex issues about disciplinary involvements. On the study abroad side we have seen that crucial issues of differential interest and opportunity continue to bedevil the field. Most of the components of global education come from the humanities and social sciences, though the growing involvement of environmental and public health faculty provides some useful balance.
