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International Students and COVID-19: What are universities doing?
The novel coronavirus (COVID-19) is affecting nearly every aspect of life, and higher education is no exception. Colleges and universities have made a widespread move to remote learning, with some having canceled resident classes through the summer. Residence and dining halls, recreation facilities, performance spaces, and offices have closed on campuses across the country. Many…
Read MoreNew Outlooks on Internationalizing Higher Education: Faculty Mobility
Student mobility is of course a major component of higher education internationalization, but attention is increasingly being given to the importance of faculty mobility. As the works reviewed here show, this latter form of mobility can be understood in several ways. On one hand, it may refer to the movement of faculty from one country…
Read MoreNews and Trends Spotlight: NAFSA and the British Council Report on Internationalization Policies in the Americas
Highlights from NAFSA’s Annual Conference in May 2019 include the release of a new report, The Shape of Global Higher Education: The Americas. The study, produced in collaboration with the British Council, assesses the state of policies in support of higher education internationalization in Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, and the United States, with results…
Read MoreNew Outlooks on Internationalizing Higher Education: Study Abroad and Employability
The present article reviews a number of recent studies which assess the impact of study abroad and related international experiences on graduate employability. In most cases, these works are based on surveys of human resource professionals, recruiters, and senior managers. The findings reveal in turn some considerable differences of opinion, although it does also appear…
Read MoreMexicoNews and Trends Spotlight: ACE Report on Mexico-U.S. Engagement
According to the most recent Open Doors report from the Institute of International Education (IIE), 5,736 American students took part in study abroad programs in Mexico over the course of the 2017/18 academic year. Although Mexico was the destination for only 1.7% of all U.S. study abroad students – and drew even higher numbers of…
Read MoreNew Outlooks on Internationalizing Higher Education: Business School Trends
It is generally assumed that business schools and programs should be especially receptive to internationalization initiatives. Business is, after all, frequently counted as a leading force in globalization or a field of practice highly subject to its effects. The present article reviews some of the recent literature on the subject from sources such as…
Read MoreNew Outlooks on Internationalizing Higher Education: Community Colleges
Previous articles in this series have cited research from the American Council of Education (ACE) and other organizations which indicate the leading part played by large universities and private liberal arts colleges in higher education internationalization. According for example to the ACE’s Mapping Internationalization reports and data from the IEE’s Open Doors project, institutions of…
Read MoreNew Outlook on Internationalization at Home: Assessing Intercultural Competence
The ultimate goal of higher education internationalization efforts can be stated fairly simply as equipping students with an awareness and respect for cultural differences and ideally an eagerness to engage and collaborate effectively with people from other parts of the world. ‘The call to integrate intercultural knowledge and competence into the heart of education,’ the…
Read MoreNews and Trends Spotlight: Non-Credit Education Abroad
According to the 2018 Open Doors report of the Institute of International Education (IIE), 332,727 American students received academic credit for participation in study abroad programs in 2016/17. The report also states that another 36,975 students ‘participated in non-credit work, internships, volunteering, and research abroad’. This figure, which represents a significant increase over the previous…
Read MoreNews and Trends Spotlight: Graduate Study Abroad
Research on the numbers and experience of American students who take part in study abroad programs tends to be primarily concerned with the undergraduate student population. However, graduate students also participate in study abroad activities, as documented by the IIE’s Open Doors project. The most recent of these reports indicates that graduate students comprised 11.9%…
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