The International Honors Program, founded as the International School of America in 1958, gives students an unequaled opportunity to study overseas in multiple countries for one year or a semester. IHP has over 1,600 alumni from the past fifty years. The global itinerary of each program involves comparative study in several contrasting societies. Thematic areas have included the environment, globalization, urban planning, governance, public health, indigenous issues, anthropology, social justice, and human rights.
1960s
IHP IS BORN International School of America, forerunner of IHP, is founded by Karl Jaeger “to maximize the educational benefits that formal education may derive from international travel.”WORLD CLASS ITINERARIES have included Tokyo, Hong Kong, Bangkok, Calcutta, New Delhi, Cairo, Istanbul, Athens, Rome, Florence, Geneva, Berlin, Paris, London and Beirut.
INQUIRING MINDS William Lederer, author of 1958’s best-selling "The Ugly American", tells a reporter that students asked him “the best questions" ever about his book, including some he was unsure he could answer.
WE KNEW HIM WHEN Student Andrew Weil would go on to become a best-selling author and world-renowned pioneer in integrative medicine. He grace Time magazine's cover in 1997.
FREEDOM FIGHTERS Among those meeting with students are former first lady Eleanor Roosevelt and India Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru.
A NEW COURSE The organization becomes known as the International Honors Program, and the thematic approach is introduced to tie together academic work.
WEST MEETS EAST Austria, Poland and the USSR are added to the itinerary.
MEETING MALCOLM X Malcolm X talks with students for two hours about the Black Muslims. "our mistake," he tells them, "is that we have waited for the white liberal to do for us what we should have been doing for ourselves."
ROYAL COMPANY Students meet with Prince Constantine, future King of Greece.
1970s
WRITE STUFF Mark Gerzon and other IHP students write The Young Internationalists. Today, Gerzon is a leading conflict resolution specialist and author of Leaders Without Borders: New Leadership Strategies for an Independent World, and Leading Beyond Borders.
PLACES Itineraries include Kyoto, Madras, Teheran, Jerusalem, Belgrade, Moscow, Leningrad and Stockholm.
COMING OF AGE Students meet with renowned anthropologist Margaret Mead.
THE BRIDGE Huston Smith, author of The World's Religions, teaches about bridging intellectual gulfs: between East and West, science and the humanities, and formal (classroom) and informal (flim, TV) education.
1980s
NOTABLE MEETINGS Students hear from India Prime Minister Indira Ghandi, primatologist Jane Goodall and paleontologist Richard Leakey.
MORE PLACES Morocco, Tel Aviv, New Delhi, Sri Lanka, Bali, Singapore, Nairobi, Spain, Yugoslavia, Hungary, Austria, Australia and Indonesia.
ON CAMERA Students and faculty make a film with world-class Indian director Satyajit Ray, and spend time with noted filmakers Jean Rouch, Shohei Imamura, Miklos Jansco and David MacDougall.
1990s
CONVENIENT TRUTH Students meet with future Vice President Al Gore.
PICTURE THIS Alumna Susan Meiselas, a noted documentary photographer, is a warded a MacArthur Foundation fellowship for a six-year project on a visual history of Kurdistan.
TRENDSETTER Students meet with Jeremy Rifkin, president of the Foundation on Economic Trends and an advisor to the European Union.
ECOLOGICAL Edward Goldsmith, founder and editor of The Ecologist magazine, connects IHP to Gustavo Esteva of Mexico, Smitu Kothari of India and other key environmentalists and activsts inspiring Global Ecoogy and Rethinking Globalization programs.
2000s
RISING STAR Students meet with Illinois Senator Barack Obama.
SCHOLARLY Alumni Emily Auerback and Nikhit D'sa receive Watson Fellowships, and Marissa Vahlsing and Christine Curella receive Truman Scholarships.
Argentina • Australia • Austria • Brazil • Canada • China • Egypt • England • France • Germany • Greece • Hungary • India • Indonesia • Iran • Italy • Japan • Lebanon • Mexico • Nepal • New Zealand • Nigeria • Philippines • Poland • South Africa • Switzerland • Tanzania • Thailand • Tibet • Turkey • USSR • Vietnam • Yugoslavia
Senator Barack Obama • Jawaharlal Nehru • Indira Gandhi • Madame Chiang Kai-shek • Eleanor Roosevelt • Ambassador Edwin O. Reischauer • Margaret Mead • Satyajit Ray • Willy Brandt • King Constantine • Edgar Faure • Ambassador John Kenneth Galbraith • Malcolm X • Jane Goodall • Richard Leakey • Tadao Sato • James Lovelock • Vice President Al Gore • Lynn Margulis • Vandana Shiva • Ambassador Charles Stith • Ivan Illich
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