Cynthia Miller-Idriss

Universities around the world lay claim to their “global” status and reach, using their study abroad programming, transnational research networks, satellite campuses, and even the global residential distribution of alumni to market their global presence and identity. But the “global” itself often is ill-defined. Miller-Idriss suggests that the contemporary global landscape of U.S. universities can best be understood as a third phase of academic internationalism. She briefly discusses these three epochs (the civilizational, Cold War, and global universities) and then turns to implications for how we understand the global in U.S. higher education today.