Beyond Borders highlights and celebrates Cornell University's many historical achievements in international activities going back to its founding. This collection of fifty-eight short chapters reflects the diversity, accomplishments, and impact of remarkable engagements on campus and abroad.

These vignettes, many written by authors who played pivotal roles in Cornell's international history, take readers around the world to China and the Philippines with agricultural researchers, to Peru with anthropologists, to Qatar and India with medical practitioners, to Eastern Europe with economists and civil engineers, to Zambia and Sierra Leone with students and Peace Corps volunteers, and to many more places. Readers also will learn about Cornell's many international dimensions on campus, including the international studies and language programs and the library and museum collections. Beyond Borders captures how—by educating generations of global citizens, producing innovative research and knowledge, building institutional capacities, and forging mutually beneficial relationships—Cornell University has influenced positive change in the world.

Beyond Borders was supported by CAPE (Cornell Academics and Professors Emeriti).

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Introduction
1. A Pioneering International Program: The Cornell-NankingStory
2. A World of Knowledge for a World of Good
3. uilding the Foundations of a Campus-Wide InterdisciplinaryEast Asia Program
4. The Southeast Asia Program: Global Cornell from theBeginning
5. A Center of the Periphery: The South Asia Program
6. The Benefits of Interdisciplinary Understanding: Cornell'sLatin American and Caribbean Studies Program
7. The Institute of European Studie: A History of Stability andChange
8. Creating Connections with Africa: Cornell's Institute forAfrican Development
9. Title VI Grants to Cornell: A Demonstration of Strength inInternational Studies
10. Launching Peace Studies at Cornell: The Air War in Indochina
11. The Study of Muslim Culture, Society, and History around theWorld: The Comparative Muslim Societies Program
12. The Bartels World Affairs Fellows: Bringing theInternationally Distinguished to Cornel
13. Institutionalized Internationalizatio: International Programsin CALS
14. Over Fifty Years of Teaching "Agriculture in the DevelopingNations"
15. CIIFAD: Unique Funding for Collaborative Approaches toInternational Development
16. Transforming Global Rice Production: The System of RiceIntensification (SRI)
17. Institution Building Abroad: Cornell in the Philippines
18. The Last Shangri La
19. Bt Eggplant: Improving Lives with Biotechnology
20. Cornell Expands the Digital World: CommunicationTechnology Abroad
21. After the Berlin Wall: Cornell in Post-Socialist Europe
22. A Cornell-Japan Partnership:: The Food Industry Connection
23. The Cornell Humphrey Program: A Catalyst for Cooperationand Understanding
24. The Tang Cornell-China Scholars Program: Connecting withCALS
25. Applied Anthropology in the Andes: The Cornell-Peru Project
26. Southeast Asian Languages and the Birth of Modern LanguageStudies at Cornell
27. African Studies at Cornell: An Insurgent Discipline
28. Engineering Solutions to Worldwide Water ManagementIssues
29. Global Hospitality: The Hotel School's International Legacy
30. Flora Rose and Martha Van Rensselaer: Relief Efforts inBelgium
31. Feeding the World: International Nutrition at Cornell
32. John P. Windmuller and ILR's Global Experience
33. Cornell Engages Emerging Markets Around the World
34. Global Awareness and Commitments of Cornell's LawSchool
35. "Don't Forget the Horse Doctor": Veterinary medicine'sInternational Legacy
36. Weill Cornell Medicine: A Medical Campus Reaching Acrossthe World
37. Weill Cornell Medicine - Qatar: Excellence Grown from Sand
38. Cornell International Education Network: A Home forInternational Educators
39. Exploring Our World: Cornell Expeditions
40. Global Connections Bring Asian Art to the Herbert F. JohnsonMuseum of Art
41. Asia Collections in the Cornell University Library
42. The Fiske Icelandic Collection: Facets of an Enduring LiteraryGem
43. Mann Library Providing Global Access to ScholarlyInformation
44. Returning Mushrooms to China: Seventy Years ofSafekeeping
45. The Strong Foundations of Cornell-China Relationships
46. A Great School Faces the Great War
47. Hu Shih: Forging a US-China Alliance
48. Building Medical Capacity in India: The Legacy of IdaScudder
49. Sending Students Overseas: The History of Cornell Abroad
50. Supporting the Global Community: International Student andScholar Services
51. Cornell at the Palazzo: The Cornell in Rome Program
52. The Cornell Nepal Study Program
53. Expanding Horizons: Veterinary Students Explore TheirProfession and the World
54. Cornell and the Peace Corps: A Valuable Partnership
55. Above All Nations is Humanity: The Cornell Cosmopolitan Club
56. Providing a Home for a Global Community: The HollandInternational Living Center
57. Performing Around the World: Cornell's MusicalAmbassadors
58. Track and Field and The Transatlantic Series
59. Conclusions

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Beyond Borders is the definitive history of how Cornell University, as one of the world's leading universities, has helped shape the world and been shaped by it. The reader is invited to an exciting treasure hunt stretching over 60 accessible and informative chapters. This book will give pleasure and insight for many years to come for anyone who has been, is or will be part of the global Cornell community.
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Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781501777004
Publisert
2024-05-15
Utgiver
Vendor
Cornell University Press
Vekt
907 gr
Høyde
254 mm
Bredde
178 mm
Aldersnivå
01, G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
277

Biografisk notat

Royal D. Colle is Professor Emeritus of Communication at Cornell. He has worked around the world on projects with WHO, the World Bank, FAO, and the Ford Foundation.
Heike Michelsen was Director of Programming at Cornell's Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies. She was a Senior Research Officer at the International Service for National Agricultural Research.
Elaine D. Engst is Cornell University Archivist Emerita. She worked as Director of the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections in the Cornell University Library.
Corey Ryan Earle is a Visiting Lecturer in the American Studies Program at Cornell University, teaching Cornell history. He works with Alumni Affairs and Development.