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Going Global, Going Liberal Arts

Inside Higher Ed

January 28, 2011

Everyone at the annual meeting of the Association of American Colleges and Universities seems to favor globalization as a goal for higher education. But some here argued that it is time to rethink just what globalization means -- in many cases making it more local in focus (and without seeing local and global as opposites). And in a sign of how all globalization may involve local contexts, officials from a Chinese university made a presentation about how it is embracing a global outlook by turning to the liberal arts.

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