Teaching, Learning, and Scholarship

The Institute of International Education (IIE) recently released its Open Doors report, indicating that more than 1 million international students are enrolled in U.S. colleges and universities (IIE 2016). Whether the trend will continue on an upward path or not remains uncertain. The forecast is

This issue of Trends & Insights is the product of an experiment—to collaborate in a virtual symposium and produce a document featuring discussion on an important topic related to higher education internationalization.

Julie J. Park reflects on her experience as an Asian-American student abroad and explores how international educators can encourage meaningful interactions across and within diverse racial and ethnic groups and guide students toward a better understanding of themselves and others.

International educators play a wide range of strategic roles across diverse institutions. In their article, Bernhard Streitwieser, The George Washington University, and Anthony Ogden, Michigan State University, explore an increasingly common hybrid identity.

NAFSA’s former senior research librarian and curator of NAFSA Research Connections, Tamar Breslauer, considers the many definitions of “mobility” and the impacts of different mobilities on international higher education.