Experience America is a training program for Thomas Jefferson Fellows and Associates (TJFs) that seeks to build lasting links between the Americas by increasing foreign college student participants' understanding of U.S. society and culture and by providing opportunities for them to present information about their countries to North Americans. The…

Writing teachers need to recognize the special circumstances of culturally displaced students. A specific category of such students are those from the Asian subcontinent, who are not exactly non-native speakers of English, but who do speak non-standard American English. These students occupy a subaltern (marginal) position: they can neither be…

The study developed a general method for analyzing the economic impact of international university students on a local or regional economy and applied the methodology to Michigan Technological University. Major findings included the following: international students accounted for $2,693,814 in total direct and indirect expenditures in the region…

Reports 55,818 enrolled in 114 U. S. medical schools in 1975-76, 28 percent women and minority groups, according to the annual survey of the Association of American Medical Colleges. Tables contain totals for first-year students and total students for each of the past five years for men and women, minority and foreign students. (JT)

A Mississippi State University study investigated the perceptions of community and higher education leaders (N=197) concerning the potential socio-economic importance to Americans of establishing continuing links among communities, colleges and universities, and international students and alumni. Individuals surveyed include academic vice…

Residence communities which were designed to house graduate students have become facilities for all students aged 21 or older. This study surveyed 25 colleges that offer housing to older students, examining the areas of programming, facilities, relationship with the graduate school, student or community governance, and the population itself. The…

In the years following the Eleventh Party Congress of 1977, China's leadership has shown a renewed interest in cultural borrowing and, subsequently, points of cultural contact with other countries have greatly increased. Many students and scholars have been sent abroad, and many foreign teachers have been invited to China. Between 1978 and 1980,…

Higher educational institutions in the United States have reported increased enrollment of international students in recent years. The Institute of International Education projects that, by 1990, on million international students may be attending colleges and universities in the United States. A study was conducted to determine the needs,…

As community colleges increasingly move to internationalize their curricula, to accommodate more foreign students in their classrooms, and to engage in technical assistance projects in other countries, they will find themselves at the very center of major issues in the field of international education. One of the most urgent of these issues is the…

Over the past few decades there has been a rapid increase in the number of international students coming to study in the United States. While some recent studies have begun to examine the academic and career needs of international students, most of these studies did not directly compare the needs of international students to those of American…

Produced as part of an institute program on international students and the library, this annotated bibliography is designed to provide librarians with source materials to be used to assist both foreign students and immigrant students from non-English speaking countries in their adjustment to the educational system in the United States. The booklet…

This publication deals with educational and employment opportunities for young foreigners in the Federal Republic of Germany. The following topics are covered: educational opportunities for young foreigners (West German efforts to promote integration and recruit workers from abroad); foreign nationals' children (integration into the German…

In this paper, a graduate student from Taiwan completing a counselor education program at the University of Iowa, comments on his counselor training in the United States and explains how that training has prepared him to work within his own culture. Adjustments which must be made in transferring knowledge gained in the American counselor education…

University of Michigan students from 32 different countries were surveyed regarding their perceptions of health and illness; information seeking and health service utilization behavior; satisfaction with University Health Service; and perception of stress and its effects on health. Results were examined for foreign students in the aggregate as…

The detrimental effects of anxiety in English as a second language/foreign language (ESL/FL) are investigated. Although empirical research on the subject of ESL/FL test affect is limited, helpful insights on test anxiety exist in the psychological literature. Two constructs in the anxiety literature are considered relevant for this study: trait…