The pattern of foreign student enrollment over the last 10 years and its impact on anticipated declining enrollments, the importance of foreign students to graduate education, and enrollment trends of foreign students by country of origin are examined. (MLW)

To help foreign students adjust to academic environment, the University of California-Davis Library developed a personalized instructional program (small groups, "on call" service) with a dual emphasis: teaching international students how to find and use library information; educating library staff to recognize/understand the special…

Data from two studies suggest that (1) people who make friends in their home culture also tend to make friends while in another culture and (2) close intracultural and intercultural relationships have analogous patterns. (PD)

Presents a review of the history, advantages, and disadvantages of Great Britain's full-cost policy for overseas students. Discusses the institutional policy and provision for students from abroad on the part of the last educational system. (SB)

International student mobility has been an important indicator for the degree of internationalisation in higher education. Today, international student mobility has moved from unorganised or self-organised study abroad to a variety of mobility forms organised within programmes. It has also become an issue of economic competitiveness, like…

This book is organized into twelve chapters, each of which deals with a major aspect of studying at university. Each chapter contains information, examples, quotations from students and tasks for readers to do. Answers to the tasks, where necessary, are included at the end of each chapter. The authors have also included a glossary at the beginning…

The use of student writing journals in the college classroom is the focus of a conversation between two writing instructors at Brigham Young University in Hawaii. Brigham Young-Hawaii has a student body that represents more than 50 different nations, with foreign students at about 40%. Both instructors teach classes with high percentages of…

This is the third edition of a publication that describes the opportunities for study in the Netherlands for students interested in either advanced training for professionals or exchange programs and scholarships. This "Europe" edition is intended mainly for distribution in western, central, and eastern Europe. Highlighted by photographs…

The document presents the proceedings of a meeting convened to design a strategic plan for international education to be adopted by Pima Community College (PCC) (Arizona). The meeting's main objective was to position the college strategically in the international education marketplace and to define the term "international education" as…

This study examines the special situation of nonnative speakers of English who teach foreign languages at U.S. institution. It argues that modules designed specifically for mentoring international foreign language teaching assistants (IFLTAs) must be included in teaching assistant workshops and seminars offered by foreign language departments.…

This paper describes the development and application of a 13-item survey to be completed by college students of their graduate teaching assistants'(GTAs) communication abilities. Survey results evaluating 114 native and non-native English speaking GTAs (217 sections, 4,651 students) were analyzed. Results indicated that nine GTAs (8 percent) were…

This paper discusses the development of a questionnaire to measure attitudes and beliefs that predict intercultural adjustment (ICA) as opposed to intercultural communication or acculturation. Piloting of the first version of the measure suggested that 153 items may be valid predictors of ICA; this study attempts to further reduce the number of…

This paper presents a description of Safe Harbor, a diversity and tolerance program that focuses on helping faculty and staff become allies to students who need extra support, such as domestic students of color, international students, sexual minorities, and disabled students. The program begins with a brief videotape of three students…

Uncovers painful facets of the adaptation most foreign students must make in the United States. (Editor/IR)

Describes a staff development program designed to help Adult Basic Education/English as a Second Language teachers make their instruction more relevant to culturally pluralistic students caught up in the growing economic crunch. (JOW)