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.

Many U.S. colleges and universities are revising their international student recruitment approaches to reach more students in Africa.

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

Among the many thousands of types of cross-border educational collaborations, the international branch campus is the most substantial and elaborate.

To help these students succeed and feel welcome, institutions create networks of student services aimed at supporting them in ways both small and large.

Education abroad has traditionally been seen as something that students pursue only when they become juniors or seniors, but administrators are increasingly encouraging sophomores and even freshmen to go abroad.

Millennials and the young professionals of Generation Z wondering how to develop a career in international education are encountering a field that has changed considerably and that continues to evolve.

Amid a newly challenging recruiting environment, U.S. institutions will need to leverage all of their competitive advantages to meet their enrollment goals and sustain their global preeminence.