Regis College Magazine, Summer, 1990

Regis University ePublications at Regis University Regis Alumni Publications Archives and Special Collections 7-1990 Regis College Magazine, Summer, 1990 Follow this and additional works at: https://epublications.regis.edu/roundup Part of the Catholic Studies Commons, and the Education Commons Recommended Citation "Regis College Magazine, Summer, 1990" (1990). Regis Alumni Publications. 102. https://epublications.regis.edu/roundup/102 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Archives and Special Collections at ePublications at Regis University. It has been accepted for inclusion in Regis Alumni Publications by an authorized administrator of ePublications at Regis University. For more information, please contact [email protected]. The nternationalization of Regis Perspective . 3 Regis College_ David M. Clarke, S.f. President The Internationalization of Regis .. .. .. .. .. .. 4 Robert L. Schmitz Vice President for Development and Public Affairs Paul Brocker Director of Public Affairs OnCampus 8 Terri Brown Editor Jeff Sheppard Director of Publications Becky Zachmeier Development .......................................... 10 Production Assistant REGIS COLLEGE MAGAZINE is published four times a year by the Office of Public Affairs at Regis College, W. 50th Avenue and Lowell Boulevard, Denver, Colorado 80221. It is the official news magazine of AlumNews 10 Regis College. Regis College is one of 28 Jesuit institutions of higher education in the United States. The College serves more than 1,100 stu dents in its four-year program on the main Denver campus, while its undergraduate ClassNotes . 11 and graduate degree programs for adults serve more than 6,800 students in Boulder, Denver, Loveland, Colorado Springs and Sterling, Colorado. About the cover: The cover photo features a detail of a Chi Whatever Happened to? .. .... .. .. .............. 16 nese brush painting. The artwork was a gift from Chinese students from Tiwan, Repub lic of China, who are enrolled in the Col lege's International MBA Program. 2 PERSPECTIVE few months ago I had the op Nothings of the 1850's, The Civil War, Given this scenario, how might Regis' portunity to attend an informal Indian Policies, Asian Exclusion Poli educational mission of globalization be reunion with a small group of cies, etc. In the twentieth century, we enlisted in support of this drive to an A old friends following an inter invented a whole body of myth about a integrated world? Perhaps the first step national business conference. Since most "melting pot" along with restrictive im must be taken in our planning of educa of us had spent a considerable part of our migration policies and then developed a tional goals and supportive programs. adult lives living and working in Japan, distorted romantic discourse about indi Should we insist upon full internation Latin America, and Southeast Asia, the vidualism to compensate for our uncon alization of our curriculum or does it evening was filled with catching up with scious uneasiness. We have continually make more sense to develop a global each others' recent activities as well as relied upon ill-informed neo-isolationist awareness component in every course? nostalgic reminiscences about our younger foreign policy decisions to address our In this development of an awareness of days in the field. As the evening grew political and eco "the other", isn't it later, our discussions became more seri nomic relations just as important to ous and the emphasis more philosophi with other coun develop intracultu cal in tone. By night's end, the discus tries. Numerous rally as it is inter sion had centered upon the group's grave studies from both culturally and are concerns about the ability of Americans the private and we addressing this to develop any long term awareness about public sector component in our the issues and challenges of globaliza strongly suggest constituencies? tion let alone the more provocative and that most Ameri Does the fact that technical issues surrounding international cans suffer pro the external trade commerce. found discomfort sector only consti The discussion was animated and when asked to per tutes approximately quite often heated. Everyone beat their sonally address 14 percent of our favorite bogy. Some condemned our gen such topics as bi GNP and has proven eral educational system while others de lingual education, relatively stable for cried our lack of political and moral lead fully integrated many years lead us ership in national and international af neighborhoods , to question whether fairs. After some reflection, a few even interracial dating I we need more "in suggested that there might be larger is marriage, or basic ternationally sues imbedded in the American experi immigration poli trained specialists" ence that needed exposition before any cies. Supposedly informed, educated or just traditionally educated individu awareness of a global consciousness could Americans decry foreign investment in als with a "global awareness"? Finally, be undertaken. Despite the festive na America as threatening to our national how do we as a community integrate the ture of the meeting, each of us left the security and well-being and banter about unprecedented opportunity presented by gathering somewhat sobered by the in "the yellow peril" at cocktail parties. our partnership with Teikyo into this tensity of our discussion and the una Despite this litany of gloom, I be process of developing global awareness? nimity of our concerns. lieve there are many indications that an The Teikyo-Loretto Heights Program Quite appropriately, I have contin attitude shift is not only possible but provides the Regis community with a ued to reflect upon that evening as I go highly probable. We must consider that real life "experiential base" to develop about my task of drawing the various re our early efforts at developing a global global awareness among ourselves and sources of the Regis community together village were generally ineffective and our new community members, the Japa to implement the Regis-Teikyo partner doomed to failure and apathy from their nese. It also provides us with an external ship under the direction ofthe academic inception. Much of this blame can be mirror to reflect upon our own culture vice president. While I cannot offer any placed upon our government, business, and experience and develop a keener solution to the general dilemma posed and educational communities who be understanding and critical appreciation that evening, I have begun to focus my at came enamored by their own culturally of our educational role in a true global tention upon some of the critical issues bounded intellectual models that pre village. Given the Teikyo asset and the raised in that discussion since they are sumed to explain "the other". Recent determination of our community as a directly related to our activities with efforts have moved more towards a bal whole to provide students with the criti Teikyo and the entire Regis community's ance of intellectual investigation grounded cal knowledge and skills necessary to educational mission of developing global in an experiential base. Armchair inter meet the challenges of a changing world, awareness. nationalism has found itself suspect in a I would expect that my old friends could It should not come as a shock to any world of sweeping global change and the reconsider their grave concerns expressed of us within the Regis family that tradi instantaneous "experience" provided that night. • tionally Americans have never been able through the stimulus of a global commu to comfortably accept that which may be nication media network. An awareness viewed as foreign or different. Our his of the other, even if embryonic in nature, Editor's note: David Prater is th e Special Assistant to the Academic Vice President and the Academic Liaison for tory is replete with vivid examples- Wash is taking place throughout the world and Regis' collaboration with Teikyo University. Pmter is a ington's Farewell Address, The Know- will continue to gather force. 1973 Regis College graduate. 3 ~------------------------............. Ask any faculty member about and deliver a curriculum to Japanese our minds and intellects is necessary. the new student body and the new students who will be recruited and I believe that the day will soon come direction Regis seems to be taking and brought to Denver by Teikyo Univer when American students, as well as the first thing they'll do is discuss sity. These students will meet Regis students from Britain and other coun terminology. Just what do we call established admission requirements tries, can study in Japan in the same this movement? Ask David Prater, and be housed on the Teikyo-Loretto way as Japanese young people have special assistant to the academic vice Heights University campus (located come to Teikyo Loretto Heights to president and the academic liaison at 3001 South Federal Boulevard) that study." for Regis' collaboration with Teikyo Teikyo purchased from Regis. Prior Prater points out that "it is not University and he'll tell you, "I see us to the purchase, the Loretto Heights the intention of Regis, nor do I believe rapidly moving toward globalization. campus was one of the seven Regis that it is the intention of Teikyo, to We're trying to bring an awareness of campuses located along the Front Range make Japanese students, Americans how global issues impact the individ of Colorado. or to make Americans students, Japa ual and to challenge their knowledge "The relationship is similar to nese. What this program hopes to ac of these issues with some form of our on-site program at IBM and Coors," complish is for each party to come to critical thinking." Prater is also the Prater explained. "Their faculty, who gether and through an intellectual lead faculty member for International are approved by Regis, present our pursuit develop an understanding of Programs in the Regis College Career · curriculum to their students.

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