International News December 2004 President Herbert Testifies before Congressional Hearing on Visa Procedures ver the past year, articles visitors from coming to the United devoted to advancing knowledge of have appeared in the The States. Reminding a packed Senate the world’s major regions. Many IU O Chronicle of Higher hearing room that “hosting foreign area studies programs further Education with headlines such as students is one of the most success- national strategic interests, and “Wanted: Foreign Students,” “No ful elements of our public diplo- international students and faculty Longer Dreaming of America,” and macy” and that “these temporary are significant contributors to the “Security at Home Creates university’s global promi- Insecurity Abroad.” All report nence. He spoke of the significant declines in the “This is a moment for decisive action. contribution of IU’s 4,400 number of international stu- We must return the United States to its international students to dents applying for and being the diversity and quality admitted to U.S. higher edu- preeminence in international education.” of education on IU’s cam- cation institutions. —IU President Adam Herbert puses; of the importance of A survey conducted the interactions and earlier this year by five friendships that bridge the higher-education associations visitors provide enormous economic cultural divide between U.S. and showed that the United States is no and cultural benefits to our country,” foreign students; and of the unique longer regarded as destination of he invited a panel of presidents from knowledge and skills these students choice for attracting the world’s top three major research universities to bring as assistant instructors to IU’s students, largely because of the diffi- testify on the effects of the new visa classrooms, laboratories, and lan- culties they face in obtaining visas. policy on their institutions and on guage and culture classes. Just as Many U.S. embassies and consulates the nation as a whole. important are the opportunities that worldwide have backlogs of applica- Indiana University President U.S. institutions have to mold the tions waiting processing. At the Adam W. Herbert made his perspectives of future leaders of same time, foreign student popula- remarks in the context of the univer- other countries, who return home tions in other English-speaking sity’s rich legacy of outstanding countries like Australia, Canada, research and teaching programs continued on page 24 England, and New Zealand are rising significantly. The question is whether the more restrictive visa procedures that have been put in place to secure U.S. borders are also shutting the door on the legitimate exchange of students and scholars. Senator Richard G. Lugar (R-Ind.), chair of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, held a hearing on October 6, “Addressing the New Reality of Current Visa Policy on International Students and Researchers.” His goal was to determine whether the changes in visa procedures were Presidents Adam Herbert of Indiana University (center), C. D. Mote of the University of unnecessarily limiting or deterring Maryland (left), and Martin Jischke of Purdue University (right). students, researchers, and official 1 International News December 2004 Business Faculty Teach Innovative International M.B.A. Program in Croatia wo years in the planning, the Europe, particularly in Hungary and International Graduate Slovenia. The EIZ turned out to be T Business School (IGBS) Zagreb an ideal Croatian partner, with was founded by a partnership library holdings, technology support, between Indiana University’s top- and other facilities that are impor- ranked Kelley School of Business bines high-level theoretical teaching tant attractions of the program. The and the Economics Institute of with hands-on experience in their new IGBS program further strength- Zagreb (EIZ). IGBS Zagreb offers an own business communities. Formal ens the Kelley School’s presence and innovative, English-language instruction began in January 2004 influence in the Central and the International M.B.A. Program, with an initial cohort of 14 highly Southeastern European region and designed to produce a highly skilled qualified student-professionals who provides a potential outlet for cadre of management professionals will graduate in May 2005. Graduates advanced training of select students to address the growing needs of receive an M.B.A. diploma from from IU’s South East European Croatian and southeastern European IGBS Zagreb and a certificate from University undergraduate programs business communities and con- the Kelley School of Business. The in Macedonia. tribute to the economic expansion program is limited to 30 students In the two years of preparation and stability of the region. each year. before the beginning of formal Until recently, these communi- The genesis of IGBS Zagreb was instruction, Croatian faculty and ties had to send their young man- when the U.S. Department of State’s administrators visited the Kelley agers abroad to business schools in Bureau of Educational and Cultural School to work with its faculty in Europe or the United States to be Affairs awarded a grant of a more designing the curriculum, observing trained at considerable expense. The than half a million dollars to the Kelley classes, and meeting with key only Croatian M.B.A. programs Kelley School to help an appropriate administrators to understand how to available were part time and of lim- partner in Croatia establish and develop and administer a top M.B.A. ited value to companies. Now, young implement a top-quality manage- program. The school assisted with a professionals have more affordable ment training program. The Kelley range of marketing strategies, access to a top-quality management School already had long-standing including a recruitment brochure education right at home that com- interests in Central and Eastern and flyer distributed not only throughout Croatia and Croatian embassies in other Central and southeastern European countries, but even as far as Canada and the United States, where several cities are home to sizeable Croatian heritage populations. Among the out- standing innovations of the IGBS Zagreb program is the struc- ture of its curriculum. The international The official photograph of the 2004–2005 IGBS Zagreb M.B.A. group, together with faculty and M.B.A. is a 16-month administrators. continued on page 30 2 International News December 2004 IU Bloomington Hosts Three Central Eurasian Conferences or three days in mid-October, discussants who traveled to Çi ˇgdem Balim (CeLCAR), Gardner Indiana University Bloomington Bloomington from Asia, Central Bovingdon (CEUS), Shahyar F hosted several hundred U.S. Asia, Europe, North Africa, Russia, Daneshgar (CEUS), William and international academics and and the United States, representing Fierman (CEUS), Sara Friedman artists who came to participate in about 50 U.S. and international (Anthropology), Aktam Jalilov concurrent meetings convened by institutions. The 62 thematic ses- (CEUS), Askarali Karimov three international societies and sions and roundtables were devoted (SPEA), Anya King (CEUS), included concerts, a book exhibit, to topics as wide ranging as Dodona Kiziria (Slavics), Edward films, and art exhibits. This conver- Charisma and Sources of Authority; Lazzerini (IAUNRC and CEUS), gence of events focused on the inter- the Politics of Perception; Language, Ricardo Lopez (Economics), disciplinary study of the cultures, Policy, and Identity; Clans and Talant Mawkanuli (CEUS, economies, histories, languages, Families in the Caucasus; Human CeLCAR), Anne Pyburn politics, and globalization of the vast Capital and Economic Development (Anthropology), Nazif Shahrani region known as Central Eurasia. It in Central Asia; NGOs and Civil (NELC), Kemal Silay (CEUS), and stretches from the Black Sea basin Society; the Political and Cultural Christopher Whitsel (CEUS). through Central Asia and Values of Youth; Transnational and The second meeting was the Afghanistan on to Mongolia, Tibet, Regional Energy Issues; Russians in annual meeting of the Mongolia and the Uyghur Autonomous Region Central Asia and Central Asians in Society, a private, nonprofit, non- in northwest China. The two major Russia; Islam and Politics; and political scholarly organization that gatherings were the Fifth Annual Inclusion and Exclusion: Ethnic has been housed at Indiana Conference of the Central Eurasian Minorities and the State. The University since the mid-1960s. A Ronald G. Studies Society (CESS) and the keynote speaker was major international center for infor- Suny Mongolian Society Annual Meeting. of the University of Chicago, mation on this remote country, the The third smaller conference was a whose topic was “Dialectics of organization promotes awareness of symposium convened by the Empire.” Mongolia through annual meetings, Azerbaijani American Cultural and IUB faculty, students, and visit- yearly exchanges of scholars, and Educational Foundation (AACEF). A ing scholars who participated were publications dealing with its history, board meeting of the American Michael Alexeev (Economics), Institute of Afghanistan Studies Christopher Atwood (CEUS), accompanied the events on the last continued on page 13 day of the conference. CESS was formally established in 2000 as the primary North American organization to promote research, teaching, and publication among scholars of Central Eurasia, defined to broadly include Turkic, Mongolian, Iranian, Caucasian,