Introduction

Abstract

"We talk about globalization today as if it's some great big new thing, that we’ve all just discovered. But there’s really nothing new about it.” So declared Jacqueline Winspear (2016), author of the best-selling series of Maisie Dobbs mystery novels. And intuitively, it rings true because globalization—the relentless force of political, social, and economical integration— has seemingly been in play since the dawn of human existence. This anthology is premised on a similar declaration—that when it comes to the internationalization of higher education, there is likewise really nothing new about it. Indeed, as summarized by Dirlik (2012), “Students have been attending ‘foreign’ universities, and universities have been recruiting ‘foreign’ students, since the origins of the university” (p. 49). In other words, the internationalization of higher education is as old as the university itself.