Are Emorys efforts at internationalization at the expense of black students?
There are two words, each of which begins with the syllable “in,” that are frequently used these days (and may thus be considered “in” in another sense) at Emory and on other campuses around the country. Those words are “interdisciplinary” and “internationalization.” If challenged, I’m not sure that I could provide an operational definition for either of these terms in the Emory context, but I am aware of at least some of the implications of such definitions for the Emory community. It is the second of these two words, internalization, that provides the stimulus for this essay. Whatever the operational definition of internationalization turns out to be for Emory, such a definition will almost certainly have implications related to the allocation of resources, human and fiscal, to support international projects. Because the size of the fiscal pie, in particular, is likely to remain finite, resources that are devoted to international programs and projects presumably will not be available
