The purpose of this study is to describe an overview of changes to inbound international faculty members to Dutch higher education institutions, their main characteristics, and forces or agents of change which occurred in them, and the implications for Japanese higher education. The analysis and discussion are based primarily on official statistics issued by the Dutch government, professional associations, individual higher education institutions, earlier relevant literature, case studies and interviews with administrative and academic staff in the Netherlands. With regard to the structure, it begins with a short introduction to the Dutch higher education system and academic profession and then analyzes key characteristics of international faculty members being employed in Dutch higher education research universities. The third section deals with major forces and agents of change which affected international faculty members in Dutch higher education institutions. The article concludes by summarizing main findings and offering implications for research, policy, and practice.

The Franz Joseph University in Kolozsvár (now Cluj-Napoca, Romania) was the second modern university in the Kingdom of Hungary and it was founded in 1872. This paper presents a micro-historical investigation of a case from 1901, when the University considered inviting a Finnish linguist to the Department of Hungarian and Comparative Linguistics after the death of the Hungarian Jewish Professor Ignác Halász. The study sheds light on the arguments made to justify the need for a foreign professor and why this plan was not realized and on the role played by Emil Nestor Setälä, the professor of Finnish language and literature at the University of Helsinki, in the appointment process. The study is based on the personal correspondence of one of the candidates, Béla Vikár and the official documents of the University.

Archives internationales d'histoire des sciences

The ‘National Feeling’ in Sciences. Bohemian Professors at the Medical Faculties of Vienna and Prague Universities: Mediators in National and International Networking. Symposium: International Networks, Exchange and Circulation of Knowledge in Life Sciences, 18th to 20th centuries. XXIIè Congrès International d'Histoire des Sciences (Beijing, 2005), edited by Brigitte Hoppe, Soňa Štrbáňová, Nicolas Robin, in: Archives Internationales d´Histoire des Sciences (Academie Internationale d´Histoire des Sciences) 56, 156–157 (2006), 265–278. The medical faculty of the University of Prague, "stepping-stone to Vienna" as the Irish ophthalmologist William Robert Wilde formulated in 1843, was for the medical faculty of the University of Vienna its main partner for scientific cooperation in the Habsburg Empire and at the same time its greatest rival. Medical professors who were trained in Vienna taught at the University of Prague and Prague sent its outstanding medical professors to Vienna. For medical students in Prague – according to the Habsburg historian Jean Bérenger – to pursue a career in Vienna was regarded as the ultimate recognition at this time. After 1830 the Bohemians Count Anton Kolowrat-Liebsteinsky, cabinet-minister of the Habsburg Monarchy and Baron Ludwig von Türkheim, Court Commissioner for Medical Studies, began in Vienna to promote particularly talented young men from Bohemia such as Joseph Škoda, Ferdinand Hebra and Carl Rokitansky. In his study “Austria: Its literary, scientific and medical institutions. With notes upon the present state of science” Wilde confirmed the dominance of Bohemian medical students and young doctors in Vienna. "Not only are the Bohemian or Slavonian race the most zealous cultivators of medicine, but in talent and reputation they far surpass the others, and form a large majority of the professors". However, it has not yet been fully researched how much the Habsburg Monarchy valued this intellectual potential or whether they regarded it as a future threat. According to their autobiographies these young Bohemian doctors were indeed confronted with considerable resistance. Precisely because of this, Rokitanky, meanwhile the leading liberal pathologist in Vienna, not only succeeded in establishing a scientific and political network in Vienna but also in creating an expansion of medical knowledge to all universities of the Empire, of Europe and America which led to international recognition of the Vienna Medical School. Because of his international approach, seldom for the time, and his leading positions in academic institutions, Rokitansky, living in the multicultural city of Vienna, defined his own nationality neutrally as "Austrian". At the beginning of the rise of national conflicts in the Monarchy he could therefore not be captured either by the intellectual nationalism of the Germans or the Czechs at the Universities of Vienna and Prague. He realised that the international reputation of the sciences, particularly medicine, could by threatened by the rise of nationalism. The ideology of national thinking in sciences of the German pathologist Rudolf Virchow was regarded with mistrust by his Austrian colleague. In 1862 Rokitanky already warned in his brochure "Contemporary Questions relevant to the University" of any national consolidation of studies which would result in a division of the "solidarity of science". "The more intensive national feelings are", he added, "the less success an academic institution will have". The Sciences as an "international undertaking" should preserve the consciousness of unity in the "academic world" confirmed the historian, Friedrich Paulsen fourty years later, when academic nationalism had reached already its first peak. In the midst of progress – despite escalating conflicts – Czechs as well as German scientists still believed that the preservation of humanity was the most important goal in medicine.

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This study is part of research project, titled ‘A Study of Foreign Academics Recruitment in the International and Comparative Perspectives’ (Code of research project: 15H05200). It is funded by the Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research from Japan Society for the Promotion of Science.

Acta medico-historica Rigensia

This study explores the effects the political “Thaw” of 1956 had on the ability of the Pomeranian Medical University of Szczecin, Poland (PUM) to join and contribute to the international production and circula- tion of medical knowledge in the years 1956–1968. It gives an overview of the challenges PUM had to face in its relationships with the state apparatus that controlled access to foreign networks. It also discusses the cases of three PUM professors, namely: Bolesław Górnicki (1908–1998; head of Paediatrics), Witold Starkiewicz (1906–1978; head of Ophthalmology), and Kazimierz Stojałowski (1903–1995; head of Pathological Anatomy). For the first of them, Szczecin was a nine-year episode in a prosperous academic career closely tied with Warsaw; the latter two were among PUM’s founding staff and stayed in Szczecin till retirement. The study reveals how personality, political and confessional worldview, strength of personal attachment to PUM, and diplomatic skills exhibited by each ...

2014

Historia Wydziału Prawa i Administracji UJ w okresie od reformy Kołłątajowskiej do czasów współczesnych, z uwzględnieniem zmian w systemie kształcenia studentów oraz przekształceń organizacyjnych i kadrowych na przestrzeni ponad 200 lat.History of the Faculty of Law and Administration of the Jagiellonian University in the period between the Hugo Kołłątaj's reform of the Academy and the present day, including the changes in the organization of studies and the organizational and personal changes in the time exceeding two hundred years

2013

TUTOR. An international, peer reviewed, openaccess journal on Medical Education and Practice, 2015

This article regards the experience gained in the Corso di Laurea Magistrale in Scienze Riabilitative delle Professioni Sanitarie (President Prof. Daniele Rodriguez, Padova University) on the activation of an internationalization process of the course. Firstly it sought to identified the main motivations of university courses that can lead to the activation of an internationalization process, according to the international literature. Secondly, the intrinsic motivations of the Corso di Laurea Magistrale, are discussed. Medium and long term goals that the degree has been placed about are exposed. It was also narrated the experience of a lecturer that has taken its course in English language and the assessment carried out by students involved. This part of article addresses suggestions for lecturers who wish to hold their course in English, using cooperative learning didactic method as well. Moreover, there are also drawn other consequential initiatives arising from the Physiotherapy Degree about the same topic and regarding the experience of an academic tutor and a project for training and supporting clinic mentors. Finally, in the conclusions are considered ways that internationalization perspectives might be introduced, or activities 'scaled up' and the responsibility that we, as educators, have to prepare our students as world citizens.

This chapter investigates the role and influence of the Fulbright Program, the principal mechanism for promoting educational interchange into and out of the United States, with focus on the Netherlands in the period between 1949 and 1980. It concentrates on the impact of the Program across all academic disciplines, but with special attention for the hard sciences. The Program was a flexible tool that could be adjusted to meet the needs of both the American and Dutch governments. Particular institutions – most notably the Dutch Foundation for Fundamental Research of Matter (FOM) – were able to make use of the Fulbright Program’s benefits to further their specific agendas in promoting scientific research in the Netherlands.

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