The number of international students on college campuses is increasing dramatically. Some of these students live in residence halls. This article outlines a hall staff training program designed to include a multicultural focus. The program includes self-exploration for staff, multicultural awareness, and counseling skills exercises. (ABL)

Results of a study of adult foreign students at the University College at Cardiff, Wales, indicate that most have financial responsibility for children and adults, often other than their own immediate families. Home government support appears to be more readilty available to male than female students, and most students are concerned about their…

Argues that the community college student population is currently made up largely of students once termed "special," such as minority, foreign, disadvantaged, and veteran students. Indicates that special services should serve as catalysts, not crutches, helping students to become intellectually and emotionally independent. (AYC)

Argues that teachers of English as a second language at the secondary school level must consider the social, political, and economic needs, as well as the linguistic needs, of students. (EKN)

Shifts in demographics of the international graduate student population in the United States since 2002 suggest universities should analyze and evaluate the academic, social, and cultural elements of their doctoral programs, to ensure students from previously underrepresented global regions experience needed adjustment support. The Investigator…

This study aimed to examine the psychological adaptation of international and migrant students in light of various individual variables including social self-efficacy, locus of control, age, sex, generational status, acculturating group membership, length of residence in the host society, and acculturation strategy. Participants were 197…

Despite educators' efforts to understand the process of composition, writing remains a mercurial process difficult to see or describe, even partially. Writing is a process even more difficult to grasp when the writer is possessed of a language--Chinese, for example--and must rely on that language to take possession of and write in a second…

Four million people are unemployed in Germany and this is having an impact on the country's universities. Many youngsters who hold university qualifying certificates claim their legal right to attend not because they want a higher education but because they cannot find employment. This booklet tries, by going beyond the facade of…

This Science Resources Studies Data Brief reports on statistics related to graduate enrollment in science and engineering in the United States for 1998. The data presented here were obtained from the National Science Foundation's 1998 Survey of Graduate Students and Postdoctorates in Science and Engineering, which collected data at 601…

Six foreign students were taught Latin by the direct method at Brock University, St. Catherines, Ontario, Canada, in an experiment to improve rapid reading mastery. (DS)

Advocates a method of teaching writing which leads students to discover the rules of written English so that they can then transform a string of grammatical sentences into a coherent discourse. Sample lessons included. Paper presented at the TESOL Convention, March 1969. (FWB)

Describes a study of the effectiveness of "clozentropy, which combines a variation of "cloze procedure (for measuring readability) with an "entropy measure (for indexing the compatibility of one's responses with those of a criterion group). (Author/RD)

Investigated personality differences between transitory and chronic loners among Iranian students (N=232) studying in American universities; and Iranian students (N=305) studying in Iranian universities. Chronic loners in both groups scored significantly higher than transitory loners on measures such as global loneliness, anxiety, depression,…

Survey data were collected to assess the involvement of agricultural teacher educators in international activities on home campuses and overseas to determine the extent of their experience and interest in international work and to compare regions of the United States in terms of international agricultural activities. (SK)