21st Century Higher Education: A Global View
Our two opinion pieces, “BI Forum” and the “Last Word,” written by Evelyn Hamilton and Dr. Kimberly Battle-Walters respectively, touch on a similar theme — the urgent need to understand cultures other than our own. Indeed, this need has never been greater.
The current environment in which we live — charged by terrorism and high-tech saber rattling ever since Sept. 11, 2001 — underscores the need for increased “awareness, dialogue and acceptance,” as Battle-Walters writes. Those who are fortunate to travel and study abroad commonly come out of those experiences enlightened and armed with a new perspective. Stereotypes and pre-conceived notions are challenged and one can begin to chip away at ignorance and intolerance, one’s own as well as others’.
