Analysis of 64 countries representing the largest number of international student exchanges examines student flows from a macro perspective. Findings indicate that the international student exchange network is relatively stable; the United States and Western industrialized nations are at the center; East European and Asian countries have become…

Reviews trends in the increasing presence in academe of scholars from South Asia, mostly from India, Bangladesh, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka. Notes that although the "model minority" stereotype is often applied to them, they are becoming increasingly assertive in the university setting. Includes graphs providing demographic and trend data.…

Reports findings of a survey examining the professional, personal, and social impacts of the Fulbright program on 277 Turkish scholars living in Turkey. Respondents to the mail survey agreed their Fulbright experience in the United States had had positive effects on their professional, social, and especially their personal lives. (DB)

Relates the author's experiences as a teacher with a high school student, a soft-spoken Japanese young woman, who taught the author and her fellow high school students much about understanding, forgiveness, and peace. (SR)

Suggests that, while the affective and behavioral dimensions of intercultural communication competence are related to international students' satisfaction with their communication skills, talking with American students was the single most important factor in perceptions of communication competency and adjusting to American life. (SR)

Describes some of the shortcuts taken by Chinese students who wish to study in the United States, including merely dishonest approaches like ghostwritten essays and actual criminal techniques like forgery and using stand-ins to take tests. Focuses on the New Oriental School, a private Chinese institution in Beijing that specializes in getting…

This article ethnographically examines the relationship between success, racial identity, and racial formation among Korean students in one New Jersey public high school. Using Racial Formation theory (Omi & Winant, [1986. "Racial formation in the United States from the 1960s to the 1990s." New York: Routledge]; Winant, [1994.…

New England is internationally recognized as a center of educational excellence, attracting "the best and brightest" from across the United States and around the world since higher education became an international enterprise at the end of the 19th century with the rise of research universities. Now, in the early 21st century, as the…

This study outlines the development of a scale designed to measure supervisory issues unique to international students. A factor analysis yielded a 1-factor scale that showed good internal consistency and was correlated with supervisees' acculturation level, satisfaction with supervision, and supervisors' sensitivity to diversity issues.…

Each year, 700,000 students from around the world come to the United States and Canada to study. For many, the experience is as challenging as it is exciting. Far from home, they must adapt to a new culture, new university system, and in many cases, a new language. The process can be overwhelming, but as Charles Lipson's "Succeeding as an…

The key to economic and social development lies in the knowledge and skill base of human capital. This report, presented to the House of Commons Standing Committee on Finance, calls for vigorous action on the part of the Government of Canada, in concert with the provinces and territories, to protect the Canadian economy from a skills shortage…

The author reports on perceptions of East Asian international graduate students (EAGS) regarding active classroom participation, as revealed through two focus group interviews with 15 EAGS at a large Midwestern research university in the U.S. The findings indicate that most EAGS shared similar views with their university instructors and American…

A Web-based learning environment has been developed to support students from China who are studying in the UK and are confronted by many cultural barriers, which may impede their academic studies. The electronic environment incorporates a number of approaches to support learning, ranging from a simple text-based presentation to more active…

More than 85% of the international students in New Zealand are Asian in origin. The level of satisfaction of Asian international students with their learning experiences in New Zealand has been of enormous concern for the New Zealand export education industry. The results of this current research, based on a qualitative research study conducted at…

In this study we examine how university plagiarism policies interact with international graduate students' academic writing in English as they develop identities as authors and students. The study is informed by the sociocultural theoretical perspective [Vygotsky, L. (1978). "Mind in society: The development of higher mental processes." Cambridge,…