The lack of intercultural competencies among students in higher education is one of the most significant issues facing higher education and society in general. As institutions of higher education embark on the journey of embracing the increasingly diverse student populations, some universities have revamped university mission statements to reflect…

This dissertation is a study of the policy process behind the legislation and regulation governing international student access to U.S. higher education since the immediate aftermath of World War II. The particular research focus of this dissertation is on NAFSA: Association of International Educators (originally established as the National…

University of London's first foreign student adviser recounts her experiences in the development of programs for assisting foreign students in Britian. (HS)

Student volunteers operate an International Education Center at the University of Oregon. (HS)

Describes a workshop designed to inform foreign student counselors about U.S. higher education. (HS)

This document presents 2 papers under 1 cover concerning the life of foreign students at the University of Kansas. The first paper, Foreign Students at the University of Kansas by Padma Jayaraman, discusses the difficulties of foreign students in communication with Americans. Foreign students seem to feel alienated from the American culture and…

Students entering college for the first time are often confronted with adjustment problems that seem to them unsurmountable and impossible. There is the transition from living dependently with parents to semi-independent living on the college campus, in addition to the many problems encountered in academic areas. If a student, accustomed to the…

This paper consists of two parts. Section I summarizes the author's experiences in Japan during 1971 when he served as a Visiting Consultant on Student Counseling Services to the U. S. Educational Commission, Japan. It was concluded that the need for the counseling service is high, student counseling roles must be firmly established, and the…

This pilot inquiry and study was designed to explore some of the adjustment experiences of the foreign students on the University of Rochester campus to provide information useful in orientation programming, foreign student advising, and foreign student counseling. Questionnaires were sent to 45 students and returned by 20 students who…

Three bibliographies list resources (most published in the 1980s) for institutions of higher education concerned with foreign student recruitment, admissions, and advising. The annotated bibliography on foreign student recruitment lists 22 references addressing both policy formulation and admissions and recruiting implementation. Source and…

The second AID-NAFSA workshop members included many of the staff of the Office of International Training, 31 Foreign Student Advisors, and 23 other members of NAFSA. The three main objectives of the program are: to improve the capability of the participants by new knowledge and skills; to expose them to modernization and popular participation at…