The United States remains the top destination for international students—and they arrive with high expectations for academic success, professional development, and personal growth. Are U.S. institutions meeting these expectations?
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.
With a growing economy, nascent middle class, and the fifth-largest population in the world, Indonesia makes a rich potential recruiting and partnership destination, but a closer look at some key numbers reveals a more nuanced picture.
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.