How well are the institutions of the Oregon University System preparing our next generations to deal with the problems of the geopolitical world they will inherit? One way is to compare where the likely problems are apt to be with where the OUS institutions send their students to study abroad. Many of the future geopolitical problems for the US will come from failed states around the world. The journal Foreign Policy and the Fund for Peace annually rank the countries where “state collapse may just be one disaster away.” Their “Failed State Index 2008” is here. Compare that to “Enrollment by OUS Students in Study Abroad Programs, 2005-06.”( here).
The results are not encouraging. OUS students are not studying where many future problems will be. Sure, some of these places are very dangerous. But not all parts of all of them.
In the top 60 states on the list, the Oregon University System in 2005-06 had a total of 15 (out of 81,002) students studying abroad. Ethiopia, #16 on the list, had 3 students. Kenya, #26, had 3 students. Egypt, #4, had 4 students. Israel, #58, had 5 students.
The following states in 2005-06 had no students studying in them from the Oregon University System (listed by their “Failed State Index” ranking, worst first): Somalia, Sudan, Zimbabwe, Chad, Iraq, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Afghanistan, Cote d’Ivoire, Pakistan, Central African Republic, Guinea, Bangladesh, Burma, Haiti, North Korea, Uganda, (Ethiopia would rank here), Lebanon, Nigeria, Sri Lanka, Yemen, Niger, Nepal, Burundi, Timor-Leste, Republic of the Congo, (Kenya would rank here), Uzbekistan, Malawi, Solomon Islands, Sierra Leone, Guinea Bissau, Cameroon, Liberia, Syria, Burkina Faso, Colombia, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, (Egypt would rank here), Laos, Equatorial Guinea, Rwanda, Eritrea, Togo, Turkmenistan, Mauritania, Cambodia, Moldova, Iran, Bhutan, Papua New Guinea, Belarus, Bosnia, Bolivia, Georgia, Angola, (Israel would rank here), Philippines, and Indonesia.
How well are the institutions of the Oregon University System preparing our next generations to deal with the problems of the geopolitical world they will inherit? One way is to compare where the likely problems are apt to be with where the OUS institutions send their students to study abroad. Many of the future geopolitical problems for the US will come from failed states around the world.
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In the top 60 states on the list, the Oregon University System in 2005-06 had a total of 15 (out of 81,002) students studying abroad. Ethiopia, #16 on the list, had 3 students. Kenya, #26, had 3 students. Egypt, #4, had 4 students. Israel, #58, had 5 students.
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The results are not encouraging. OUS students are not studying where many future problems will be. Sure, some of these places are very dangerous. But not all parts of all of them.
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How well are the institutions of the Oregon University System preparing our next generations to deal with the problems of the geopolitical world they will inherit? One way is to compare where the likely problems are apt to be with where the OUS institutions send their students to study abroad. Many of the future geopolitical problems for the US will come from failed states around the world. The journal Foreign Policy and the Fund for Peace annually rank the countries where “state collapse may just be one disaster away.”
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The journal Foreign Policy and the Fund for Peace annually rank the countries where “state collapse may just be one disaster away.” Their “Failed State Index 2008” is here. Compare that to “Enrollment by OUS Students in Study Abroad Programs, 2005-06.
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