Describes a course for foreign students at the secondary level which attempts to help students with their concerns regarding identify, socialization, prejudice, values, and decision-making. (Author)

The development and effectiveness of the Central American Management Institute (INCAE), a 12-year-old school that specializes in training top business administration people in Latin America, is discussed. INCAE's view is that economic development is the key to social change, especially in the third world. (LBH)

International students teach in many American universities, especially in the areas of engineering, math, and physics. However, the quality and effectiveness of their instruction can be a debatable and controversial issue. This article focuses on the challenges that international students face in the classroom, and what the university can do to…

The paper analyses qualitative data on the topic of "international graduate student life," and especially on the cultural and academic adaptation processes that graduates go through in a new environment. The paper describes and discusses the process of the work on the data. It deals with the theories and hypotheses that were generated during the…

Charles Vest gave the second of three Clark Kerr Lectures on the Role of Higher Education in Society on April 21, 2005 on the Santa Barbara campus. The Age of the Internet presents remarkable opportunities for higher education and research in the United States and throughout the world. The rise of a "meta-university" of globally shared…

This paper summarizes a south Asian custom of decision-making and a western custom of decision-making. It then describes by example the meeting of these customs, based on traditional philosophies (one supporting an entire family group, the other leaving a person to function individually and independently), when a newcomer (an Indian male graduate…

This paper shares some of the experiences of the author, a former Ph.D. overseas student from Thailand, during the time she was conducting a research project in Australia. Being abroad for the first time, as well as coming from a culture with different norms, values, languages, beliefs, and ways of life, led to most of her days studying overseas…

Foreign students are annually attracted to American higher institutions in large numbers. They are to be found in every type of college or university, pursuing courses of all sorts and of every degree of advancement. In order that these students may have some guide to the conditions of graduate study in this country and to the noteworthy…

Focuses on ways to help foreign students solve reading and study skill difficulties in a university setting. (RB)

Briefly describes identification, training and sueprvising of mature indigenous students as counselors to provide a network conducive to foreign student interaction and to interaction with the university community. (Author/CJ)

Part II builds upon the criticisms of library education discussed in Part I (EJ 076 088) and attempts to offer a concept of library education as an intellectual discipline, applicable to American and foreign students alike. It suggests a solid core of intellectual content plus sufficient flexibility to permit experimentation. (17 references)…

Details of the Student Exchange Program (STEP) that will bring German students to fill empty classrooms and dormitories in the U.S. (Author)

The article explores the manisfestations and causes of strained relations between Africans and black Americans as well as between Africans and whites on the UCLA campus. (FF)

A cost-benefit analysis of the contribution made towards the education of foreign students at Albertan Universities and of their contribution to the economy is attempted. (Author)