Voices

Isabel Wilkerson, the Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist and NAFSA 2017 Annual Conference & Expo plenary speaker, discusses the perspective her work, her travels, and her study of U.S. history have given her on the world and international higher education.

Study abroad, international education, and intercultural education are experiential learning avenues offered to students as a rich opportunity to fulfill a general education course requirement on diversity while having a life-changing experience.

Texas A&M University professor and former international student Kuang-An Chang helped lead the university’s first civil engineering study abroad program to Taiwan last year, guiding 14 students on their five-week academic and cultural experience in and around his undergraduate alma mater.

Alan Ruby, a senior fellow and senior scholar of the Alliance for Higher Education and Democracy, shares his perspective on the state of the field and why research findings must guide its practice.

Students need to be able to move fluidly between different vantage points, including disciplinary models, distinctive cultural contexts, and transnational perspectives.

As the value of higher education in general is increasingly brought into question, international educators must emphasize in very real terms the value of investing in international education and learning.

The challenge is how to create pathways for students to develop empathy both in and out of the classroom.

Mohamed Abdel-Kader, executive director of the Stevens Initiative at The Aspen Institute, shares his unique perspective on internationalization, the role of anti-intellectualism, and what exactly global competency is.

In the current IEM climate, ROI outcomes are vital to making persuasive resource requests and aligning budget expenditures with mission statements or strategic plans.

The President of West Virginia University shares his perspective on why people from diverse backgrounds should come together to promote international education and exchange.