Josef A. Mestenhauser Professor emeritus, appointed 1992 410A Wulling Hall j-mest@umn.edu Phone: 612-624-8350 Fax: 612-624-3377 Mailing address: Dept. of Organizational Leadership, Policy, and Development 330 Wulling Hall University of Minnesota Minneapolis, MN 55455-0221

By the time I earned my first doctorate in 1960, I experienced several “lives”. First an idyllic youth in Czechoslovakia and then Nazi occupation, followed by a brief encounter with reborn democracy that was interrupted by long Soviet rule. The next life was of a refugee in West Germany, following my escape from Czechoslovakia that was in turn followed by immigration to the U.S. where I was able to complete my interrupted university education. Eventually I came to the University of Minnesota as student, earning both my M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in Political Science and European Area Studies. Soon upon arrival I joined the International Student Advisor’s Office with which I was associated until that office was expanded to become the Office of International Education. I received an academic appointment as Assistant Professor after completion of my Ph.D. degree which enabled me to receive several Fulbright grants in the Philippines, Japan, and Czechoslovakia. These appointments allowed me to live and travel widely in countries such as Hong Kong, Japan, the Philippines, Korea, Indonesia, Malaysia and other countries of Southeast and East Asia. I began to develop an interest in internationalization of higher education from systems perspective, and attempted to develop an integrated cross-cultural approach to international and cross-cultural relations. This involves not just a juxtaposition of different academic disciplines and cultures, but integration of approaches and concepts. I am also interested in finding common ground between various cognitive approaches to knowledge.

After the break-up of the Soviet Union I was able to return to Czechoslovakia as Fulbright Visiting Professor; that country also awarded me ex post facto the doctorate from which I was expelled by the communist regime. Later I was appointed Honorary Consul of the Czech Republic for Minnesota, Iowa and North and South Dakota.

As a recently retired faculty member, my student advising and teaching responsibilities are limited. But I’m eager to continue undertaking research that is relevant to my teaching, and to maintain networks that will be of help to this department and the University. I am member of a joint Task Force of NASULGC (National Association of Land Grant Colleges and Universities) with the World Bank on various development approaches to Higher Education I’ve always been very student centered, and look forward to meeting new students as well as maintaining ties with graduates. One of the things I’ve always loved is how much I learn in dealing with people!

Academic degrees

• JUDr., 1990 (attended 1945-48), Charles University in Prague, Czechoslovakia, Faculty of Law
• Ph.D., 1960, University of Minnesota, political science
• M.A., 1952, University of Minnesota, political science
• B.A., 1950, Eastern Washington College of Education

Positions held

• Professor, Educational Policy and Administration, 1992-present
• Honorary consul for the Czech Republic in Minnesota, Iowa and North and South Dakotas.
• College coordinator, international education activities, College of Education and Human Development, 1992-98
• Director, Office of International Education and professor l986-1992 and member of graduate faculty, Educational Policy & Administration, Speech Communication 1986-92
• Adviser to international students and professor (1951-78)
• Adjunct professor of speech communication, 1983-present
• Adjunct professor in H. H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs.
• Fulbright-Hays Lecturer, Korea, Philippines, June and July 1963
• Fulbright-Hays Research Grantee, University of the Philippines and Ateneo de Manila 1966-67
• Fulbright Lecturer, Japan-U.S. Educational Commission in Tokyo, June-December 1980
• Fulbright Lecturer, Charles University, Prague, CSFR, Faculty of Pedagogy, 1991-92
• President, International Society for Education, Cultural & Scientific Interchange, 1982-84
• President, NAFSA: Association for International Educators 1987-88
• Fellowship, Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD) in Germany, October 1984
• United States Delegate to OECD Conference on Foreign Students and Internationalization of Higher Education, November 8-10, 1988 in Hiroshima, Japan
• Research associate, Center for Studies in Higher Education, UC Berkeley, Summer 1990
• Consultant and lecturer, Amerika Haus, Koln and Frankfurt, November-December l986 and the US Fulbright Commission Advising Office, London, December l986
• Consultant and workshop faculty member for USIA Overseas Advisers, Brussels, November 1986
• Consultant to 36 US and foreign universities on international role of universities
• Consultant, Midwestern Universities Consortium for International Activities (MUCIA) for the Government of Indonesia, January-February 1985 and November 1987
• Acting coordinator, Student Development Centers, Univeristy of Minnesota, January 1983-June 1984
• Consultant to Council on International Exchange of Scholars on selection of Senior Fulbright Awards in Education, 1981-84
• American specialist Lecturer for USIA in Thailand, Philippines, and Singapore November 1980
• Visiting professor, Keio University, Tokyo, Japan 1980
• Consultant on Youth and Student Affairs, Asia Foundation, Manila 1966-67
• USIA American Academic Specialist in Minsk, Belarus, 1996 & 1997
• Leader for Fullbright Group Project Abroad to Belarus, Kyrgyzstan, and the Czech Republic, summer 1998
• Visiting professor in the MIM program of St. Thomas University held in Taiwan, taught course on intercultural relations in November 2001. 

Honors and awards

• Marita Houlihan Award for Excellence and Innovation in International Education (NAFSA)
• Centennial Award (Waseda University, Tokyo)
• Gordon L. Starr Award for Outstanding Contribution to Student Life (University of Minnesota, May l997)
• J.A. Comenius Medalion (Prime Minister of the Czech Republic)
• Golden Seal Award (Rector of Charles University, Prague)
• Greater Minneapolis International Citizen Award (City of Minneapolis)
• Citizen-Diplomat (Minnesota International Center)
• Gold Medallion for Contribution to Czech Higher Education at 650th anniversary of Charles University, Prague
• Silver Medal from Vaclav Havel, President of the Czech Republic
• Jan Masaryk Silver Medal from the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Czech Republic
• Global Engagement Award from the University of Minnesota

Courses taught

• Bridging the Conceptual Gap: Multicultural and International Education
• Critical Issues in International Education and Educational Exchanges
• Cross-cultural Perspectives on Leadership
• Several one-credit Special Seminars in International Education

Professional associations

• NAFSA: Association of International Educators (President l987-88)
• Association of International Education Administrators
• European Association for International Education
• International Studies Association (1980-1990)
• Association of Integrative Studies (1980-1992)
• Society for Intercultural Education, Training and Research (1968-88)
• World Future Society (until 1990)
• Czechoslovak Society for Arts and Sciences (Vice President, October l992-94)
• Fulbright Alumni Association, Minnesota Chapter (President, l993)
• Czech and Slovak Cultural Center in Minnesota (President, 1999 - president)

Recent publications

More than 120 publications, including books, articles, monographs and papers published in English, German, Japanese, Czech, French and Russian languages. The most recent publications follow:

International Education on the Verge: In Search of a new Paradigm. (May 1998) International Educator, Vol. VII Golden Anniversary Issue NAFSA: Association of International Educators, Washington DC.

Internationalization of Higher Education : A Cognitive response to the Challenges of the 21st Century (Spring, 1998) International Education Forum 18 (1) Pullman, WA: Washington State University/Association of International Education Administrators.

The U.S. In International Education: What Kind of Partnership? (Summer 1998) in Journal of International Education, Vol. 9, No. 2, June 1998 ISSN 1369-4104 London: UKCOSA:The Council for International Education and the British Council.

Missing in Action: Leadership for International and Global Education for the 21st Century. In Papers on Higher Education, Internationalization of Higher Education: An Institutional Perspective. Bucharest: UNESCO/CEPES, May 2000.

Relevance of Culture and values in International Education, paper presented at an invitational Values Symposium sponsored by the Florence Kluckhohn Center for the Study of Values at the Univ. of Washington, on February 19. 1999.

The Drama of Change in Central and Eastern Europe : Transition, transformation, or return to the past? Paper presented at a public conference on Values and Culture in the Age of Globalization held at the University of Washington on February 20, 1999.

Reflections about Reflections, Book review of “50 Years of International Cooperation and Exchange Between the United States and Europe: European Views” in Forum, European Association for International Education, Spring 1999, vol. 1 #1.

With Lena Yershova and Joan DeJaeghere Thinking not as Usual: Adding the intercultural perspective. New York: Association for Studies in International Education: Journal of Studies in International Education, Vol. IV, No. 1, Spring 2000.

With R. Michael Paige (1999) “Internationalizing Educational Administration” in Educational Administration Quarterly, Vol. 35, No 4 (October 1999) pp 500-517 Washington, D.C: The University Council for Educational Administration.

“Ten years of freedom: Reflections on the Czech Velvet Revolution” in Periphery: Journal of Polish Affairs, Vol. 6/7, 2002.

“The Future of Educational Exchanges in the Light of September Terrorist Attacks” in RYUGAKU KORYU: Journal of the Association of International Education in Japan, Tokyo, Japan, Vol. 14, No. 2, 2002 (in Japanese). Pp. 22-27.

“In Search of a Comprehensive Approach to International Education: A Systems Perspective” in Gruenzweig, Walter and Rinehart, Nana (Eds). (2002) Rockin’ in Red Square: Critical Views of International Education in the Age of Cyberculture. Muenster, Germany: LIT Verlag, distributed in US by Transaction/Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick.

Critical, creative and comparative thinking in internationalization of universities. Paper presented at International Symposium on the same subject at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ont. Canada, on January 31, 2002. (2002) Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada: The University of Manitoba, Occasional Papers in Higher Education, No. 11, pp. 55-77.

Learning with foreign students. Paper presented at Regional Conference on International Education at Queen’s University on February 1, 2002. (2002) Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada: University of Manitoba, Occasional Papers in Higher Education #11, pp. 15-27.

Learning from Learning to Enhance Learning (2003) Unpublished manuscript presented to the faculty of the Master of International Management staff training program at St. Thomas University, St. Paul.

Building Bridges, in International Educator, Vol. XII, No. 3, Summer 2003. pp. 6-11, Washington, D. C.: NAFSA: Association of International Educators.

The World at your Doorstep: Don’t Miss it (2003) Paper presented at the “Internationalization at Home” Conference at Malmoe University, Sweden, on April 25, 2003.

Production, Utilization and Transfer of Knowledge in Global Context (2003) Paper presented at a Symposium on the Role of Public Universities in an Innovation Based Society held in Prague, Czech Republic on May 11 – 12, 2003. Published in “Teorie Vedy” Journal of the Czech Academy of Science, XII (XXV) #3, 2003. (In English).

Internationalization at Home; A new paradigm in international education? Paper presented at the tenth annual conference of AMPEI, Associacion Mexicana para la educacion international, A.C. held in Monterrey, N.L., Mexico on November 12 – 14, 2003.Published by AMPEI, Educacion Global No. 8, 2004, Guadalajara, Mexico: AMPEI pp. 25 – 32.

With Brenda Ellingboe, presentation at Conference on Study Abroad Curriculum Integration, sponsored by the Learning Abroad Center, University of Minnesota, April 16, 2004 “Learning from Learning to Enhance International Learning”. In Internationalizing Undergraduate Education: Integrating Study Abroad into the Curriculum, 2005. Minneapolis, MN: Learning Abroad Center, University of Minnesota, pp. 122 – 131.

Internationalization at Home: A Systems Perspective” Keynote address presented at Conference on Internationalization at Home, sponsored by NUFFIC in Rotterdam, The Netherlands, May 9 – 10, 2005. Published in Teekens, Hanneke (Ed) (2006). Internationalization at Home: a global perspective. The Hague, The Netherlands: NUFFIC, pp. 61-78.

Educating the World: Global Exchanges of Persons. Cultural. Invited article to be published by Berkshire Publishing Group for Congressional Quarterly as a stand-alone companion to two-volume Encyclopedia of Global Perspectives. Publication pending.

With Dr. Brenda Ellingboe (2005) “Leadership Knowledge and International Education. International Educator, November-December 2005. Washington, D. C.: NAFSA: Association of International Educators pp. 36 - 44.

“Transformation of Higher Education” – paper presented at International Symposium of the Central European Initiative on Competitiveness – Innovation – human resources – CEI countries in Global Perspective, sponsored by the National Training Fund, Czech Republic and held in the Czech Parliament on April 27 – 28, 2005.

Another perspective on educational exchanges: The rich get richer (cognitively) In PFC Newsletter (Professionals for Cooperation, Alumni Association of U.S. Government funded projects in the Russian Federation. Omsk: Inter-universities Centre for International and Academic Mobility, pp. 133-138.

Mezinarodni Vzdelavani (International Education: A New Knowledge). Publication pending in 2006 by the Faculty of Social Sciences of the Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic (In Czech).

Character of an Internationalized University: Theoretical Perspective. Paper presented at “Colloquium 2006” held at Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, Port Elizabeth, South AFRICA ON August 24 – 25, 2006. Published in Nico Jooste (Ed) 2007. Internationalizing Higher Education. Colloquium Series Vol. 2 and 3, Port El;izabeth, So. Africa: Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University. pp.118 -151.

Internationalization at Home: A brilliant idea waiting implementation. Paper presented at the annual conference of the European Association for International Education held in Basel, Switzerland, on September 13 – 16, 2006. Published in Teekens, Hanneke (Ed) 2007. EAIE Occasional Paper @20. Amsterdam, The Netherlands: European Association for International Education. Pp. 13 – 23.

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