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East Germany in the Horn of Africa: Reflections on the GDR's Educational Intervention in Ethiopia, c. 1977-1989
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Semela, Tesfaye; Miethe, Ingrid – History of Education, 2021
During the Cold War, the German Democratic Republic (GDR) was a key player in sub-Saharan Africa. Focusing on its role in the Ethiopian polytechnical education reform effort between 1977 and 1989, this study explores the extent of educational policy transfer as well as the nature and magnitude of influence during the implementation of that…
Descriptors: Educational History, Educational Policy, Conflict, Foreign Countries
Technically Allowed: Federal Scrutiny of Stanford University's Indirect Cost Expenditures and the Changing Context for Research Universities in the Post-Cold War Era
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Maher, Brent D. – History of Education Quarterly, 2019
Stanford University's indirect cost rates for federally sponsored research dramatically increased from 58 percent in 1980 to 78 percent in 1991. Faculty frustration with increasing rates and scrutiny from a zealous government contracting officer culminated in a congressional inquiry into Stanford's indirect cost accounting practices in 1990 and…
Descriptors: Costs, Expenditures, Research, Accounting
The Lost History of Western Civilization
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Kurtz, Stanley – National Association of Scholars, 2020
"The Lost History of Western Civilization" is a wide-ranging consideration of the academy's role in producing America's contemporary political and cultural divisions. The report traces the ways in which the 1988 controversy over the teaching of Western Civilization at Stanford set the pattern for today's "Cold Civil War." The…
Descriptors: Western Civilization, United States History, Political Attitudes, Cultural Differences
The International Infrastructure of Area Studies Centers: Lessons for Current Practice from a Prior Wave of Internationalization
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Friedman, Jonathan Z.; Miller-Idriss, Cynthia – Journal of Studies in International Education, 2015
Existing studies of the internationalization of higher education have detailed the broad contours of change in the new "global" era, but they have told us much less about the individuals and processes underpinning these transformations. Moreover, they tend to treat internationalization as a recent or new phenomenon. There have been prior…
Descriptors: Area Studies, International Education, Higher Education, College Faculty
The Role of Education in an Historically Challenging and Politically Complex Environment: The Response of Public Universities to the September 11 Attacks
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Khan, Nigar J. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
The dissertation critically analyzes the response of a major research public university to the attacks of 9/11 in order to gain a deeper understanding of public universities' stance on the relevance of Middle East studies, particularly in the context of the serious and far-reaching impact of 9/11. The absence of an articulated position of the…
Descriptors: Terrorism, Criticism, Middle Eastern Studies, Qualitative Research
Taking Root in Foreign Soil: Adaptation Processes of Imported Universities
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Graham, Terrece F. – ProQuest LLC, 2016
The fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 ushered in a period of change in higher-education systems across the former Eastern bloc. Reform-minded leaders in the region sought to introduce western models and policies promoted by foreign development aid agendas. Private higher-education institutions emerged. This qualitative multiple case study examines…
Descriptors: Universities, International Education, International Cooperation, Foreign Countries