New Initiatives in International Education

T NHE universities and the colleges of this country today may well be at one of the turning points in their history-a turning point as important in its own way as the passage of the Morrill Act a century ago. Revolutionary changes in the nature of American institutions of higher learning, changes that have been in process for a generation, have now come to the point where we must learn not simply to live with them but to master them and turn them to the business of education. These changes have to do with the international setting of American education and American culture. The current intellectual and cultural commerce between the United States and other nations has produced radical changes in international relations. Motion pictures, the mass media of communication, tourism, publicity, and advertising have altered the character of national cultures and of international discourse. The activities of universities, foundations, religious groups, fraternal orders, professional societies, and labor unions have contributed to the same end. Tensions exist within nations and

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