The Community/Junior College Committee of the National Association for Foreign Student Affairs (NAFSA) sponsored a study on junior and community college enrollments of foreign students in the U. S. The report consists of a series of tables: a national summary report by NAFSA region and regional reports by state. These tables indicate the total…

The exchange of French and American teaching assistants at Central Michigan University is described. Information on the following topics is given in detail: (1) candidate selection, (2) program organization, (3) teaching assistant qualifications and responsibilities, and (4) advantages and disadvantages of the exchange program. Students taking…

This review of higher education research conducted in Australia and New Zealand is divided in two parts. Part I deals generally with research into academic success and failure and includes: (1) selection and wastage; (2) selection, years spent in sixth form, and a Formula; (3) age and maturity; (4) other student variables, such as reasons students…

The focus of this bibliography is on the role of students in society and in higher education throughout the world. Material on the US is omitted because of the large number of publications on US students and higher education. The 1800 listings are drawn mainly from English, French, Spanish, and German language publications. The introduction…

This is the report of a panel of experts who met to attempt to improve the experience of Latin American students in U.S. universities in the field of Business Administration. The report is organized into five sections. The first section identifies the objectives of the U.S. institutions with respect to the Latin American students, and considers…

The author, a consultant in English as a Second Language (ESL) in the New Jersey State Department of Education, emphasizes the need for inservice training in ESL. She points out that school personnel of many districts which she has observed purport to have ESL programs but actually are unaware that the teaching of ESL requires special training.…

This document, a summary of a master's thesis in extension education, analyzes the relationship of selected factors with the academic performance of Malaysian students enrolled at Louisiana State University. Data were collected by mail questionnaire from all Malaysian students with a diploma in agriculture who were enrolled at the university in…

This report summarizes the training workshop on the Evaluation of Asian Educational Credentials recommendations and findings. This report is an attempt to extract from the total workshop those points that are most relevant to the problem of evaluating credentials from India, Japan, the Philippines and Taiwan. For each of the four countries the…

This is the report from the workshop for the admission and placement of students from the Pacific-Asia Area. The basic purpose of this workshop was to bring together a group of experienced admissions officers and resource persons with expertise in the particular countries to be covered, in order to study, in some depth, foreign educational systems…

This is another of several multi-media packages on ethnic groups in Toronto that attempt to introduce Toronto teachers (especially those who teach English as a second language) to the cultures and societies from which their students came. An introduction to the multi-media package on Greece is given here. Sections included in the document are:…

The Academic Advisory Staff (AAS) of the Office of International Training (OIT), Agency for International Development (AID) analyzes and interprets the academic credentials of AID participants from cooperating countries in terms of the educational system of the U. S. To carry out this service the AAS has developed a library of reference materials…

In order to involve its students in its efforts to improve the international educational program in the U.S., the National Association for Foreign Student Affairs (NAFSA) held a conference on January 20, 1972 to distill and implement concrete programs. One of the programs implemented from the conference was the "Student NAFSA Papers" program in…

By furnishing cultural and historical research, this study provides teachers with background information on West Indian immigrants, thereby helping teachers to better understand and assist such newcomers, who comprise over five percent of the total yearly Canadian immigration, in the Toronto schools. Seven sections comprise the booklet. The first…

Describes a questionnaire that explored foreign agricultural engineering students' present positions in their home countries, and their opinions on their training in the United States. (MLH)

In the face of declining, full-time enrollments, colleges and universities are investigating markets other than those previously cultivated. The international student market presents a viable resource which, with integrated marketing methods, can offset the declining domestic student population. (Author)