This paper explores how students adjust to life at universities outside their home countries. Much of the current body of research was conducted prior to the 9/11 tragedy and focuses primarily on studies within a single U.S. institution. This project expands the boundaries by including multiple institutions from around the globe post-9/11. The…

This study emphasizes it is important and necessary that an English as a foreign language (EFL) speaker should develop their knowledge in pragmatic and sociolinguistic rules in order to avoid failure and misunderstanding in intercultural communication. This paper proposes to raise the EFL speakers' pragmatic awareness in cross-cultural…

The purpose of this study was to examine how Asian students at Western Michigan University (WMU) have adjusted to U.S. culture and more specifically to life at a U.S. university. I. Owie (1982) found a high degree of social alienation among foreign students at two Midwestern U.S. universities. He recommended that universities continuously evaluate…

This guide to the rights of international students explains racial profiling and hate crimes. Since the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, many immigrants and international students have experienced heightened scrutiny and outright discrimination. Racial profiling refers to the reliance by law enforcement officers on a person's ethnicity,…

Current trends in engineering education must accommodate the fast development of the global industrial marketplace. The well-known inertia against change in institutions of higher education will not fit for the foreseeable future. The career paths of our engineering graduates have changed and will change further, when industry moves to global…

This study reports the observations and reactions of foreign students to American library education. It seeks to answer the question of how the student reacted to his time in American library schools. Part II will appear in July 1973. The complete report is available from ERIC (ED 058 918). (2 references) (Author/DH)

Foreign physicians must understand precisely what the patient or other physician is trying to communicate in a hospital situation. (HS)

Organized programs for foreign students can no longer exist as they have in the past. (HS)

Eighteen Malaysian physicians evaluate their postgraduate training in the United Kingdom, Australia and the US in terms of its relevance to Malaysian health needs, the extent to which it is actually used, and its importance to them in teaching medical students in Malaysia. (WM)

A study of 2,408 student families reveals that in 195 families (8.1 percent) both spouses have lived most of their lives outside of the United States. (Author)

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