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International Higher Education Consulting Blog
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Director of International Student and Scholar Services open position at Columbia College Chicago - *Columbia College Chicago* has opened a search for a Director of International Student and Scholar Services and the position description has posted to the...
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Cultivating a Plan for Re-Entry After an International Experience - So, you’ve gone abroad and returned home or you’ve sent students abroad and they have returned home. Now what? What did that experience mean? What do you d...
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Research digest for practitioners: February 2018 - With the recent online publication of the February 2018 Journal of Studies in International Education it’s time for another post in the blog series that ...4 months ago
International Education and Related Blogs
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Public-Private Partnerships: Role of Pathway Programs for International Student Recruitment - Public-private partnerships are becoming critical for US higher education. I moderated a panel discussion of leaders from universities and pathway provider...1 day ago
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Public Service Day: What makes a good public servant in the 21st century? - United Nations (UN) Public Service Day, June 23, celebrates the value of public service to the community. It highlights the contribution of public servic...2 days ago
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Luxembourg to open three new European Schools - The Luxemburgish parliament has approved the creation of three new Accredited European Schools, which will open their doors to pupils in September 2018. ...2 days ago
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10 Criteria to Consider for Outsourcing Your International Credential Evaluation Needs - June 22nd, 2018 In our previous blog, we wrote about the benefits of outsourcing international credential evaluations. In this week’s blog, we’d like to sh...2 days ago
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Viet Nam Ranks 59th Out of 163 in 2017 Global Peace Index - For those of us who live here, I’m stating the obvious. According to the latest Global Peace Index report, Viet Nam ranks 59th out of 163 countries surve...3 days ago
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Adjusting to New Learning Environments and Style When Studying Abroad - You’ve planned your semester abroad to a tee, prepared for the worst, and hoped for the best. The minute you land, you’re busy taking in the newness around...3 days ago
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Personal benefits of studying abroad - As every international student knows, studying abroad produces a plethora of benefits that vary from academic progress by obtaining an American degree, to...3 days ago
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Spain to Crown San Antonio Capital of Tapas on World Tapas Day - Categories: Best Of Traveling Body: Summer begins Thursday, June 21. Coincidentally, that’s also “*Día Mundial de la Tapa*,” or “*World Tapas Day*.” In 2...4 days ago
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Are the US and the UK really making a comeback? - The latest QS World University Rankings and the THE World Reputation Rankings have just been published. The latter will feed into the forthcoming world ran...5 days ago
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Director of International Student and Scholar Services open position at Columbia College Chicago - Columbia College Chicago has opened a search for a Director of International Student and Scholar Services and the position description has posted to the Ca...6 days ago
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Why you should talk to your Professor - While in school you’ll make lots of friends and connections, but one group that you might overlook will be your professors. One aspect of school is the t...1 week ago
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Anthony Bourdain, Eating Abroad, and Cultural Connections - There’s been a lot in the news this past week about Anthony Bourdain’s respect for food and its connection to people and cultures. It makes me think about ...1 week ago
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Campus Career Services: A Student Affairs Office Rarely Visited by International Students - In the Journal of International Students, https://jistudents.files.wordpress.com/2016/10/2016-vol-6-no-4.pdf , five co-authors try to assess why internat...1 week ago
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Google Makes Strides with Speech Recognition AI - One area of artificial intelligence (AI) that is making massive technological advancements is Touchless Speech Recognition AI. While most people had thei...1 week ago
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Irish Cuba URLs - *The Irish (and Irish Americans) in Cuba* Many ethnicities contributed to Cuba’s culture and history. Among them were the Irish who came directly or thro...2 weeks ago
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Movies and Meaning - Having attended the Movies and Meaning event, I'm moved to engage more deeply in storytelling and community...2 weeks ago
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Ser o no ser ágiles, tal vez sea esta la cuestión - Ágil es una de las palabras de moda. Todo el mundo se quiere apuntar a las metodologías ágiles porque son sinónimo de estar a la vanguardia en el competiti...
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Join the 2018-2019 yPIE Board - yPIE is recruiting passionate young professionals to join the board for 2018-2019. Vacancies are available on the Communications and the Membership & Devel...
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Spring AT LAST!!!! - Well. It has been a long, cold, hard winter in many parts of the world, including here in Essoyes, including in my second-beloved-home New York City, i...1 month ago
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The College Graduation Challenge - This New York Times piece below describes the challenge, Farther Foundation is addressing it. Our students are attending college at a 99% rate and persisti...2 months ago
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Journal article just published - "Internationalization of Research: Key Considerations and Concerns" - Very happy to work with colleagues from Boston College Center for International Higher Education (Ayenachew Woldegiyorgis and Hans de Wit) on this article ...3 months ago
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Repeat After Me - When it comes to telling stories about study abroad, repetition is a good thing.Photo by Ján Jakub Naništa on Unsplash Our goal at *Via *TRM is to engage #...3 months ago
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The New Crisis of Public Communication - This Wednesday we had our department's Jay Blumler Lecture, given this year by Silvio Waisbord of George Washington University. The annual lectures always ...4 months ago
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Malaysia’s International Education by 2020 and Beyond: Re-examining Concept, Targets and Outcome - Editor’s note: This guest entry has been kindly contributed by Professor Dato’ Dr Morshidi Sirat. Morshidi was the former Director-General of Higher Educat...5 months ago
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September 2017 – New Resources - ACE has added several new resources to the INCI site. Under Comprehensive Internationalization – “Mapping Internationalization on U.S. Campuses – 2017 Repo...8 months ago
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EducationUSA: Tips about Visas and the Application Process 9/5/17 - Obtaining a visa may seem complicated or daunting at first, but there are many resources available to make the process go smoothly. In the first video, Con...9 months ago
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Professor Edwards’ South Pacific Speaking Tour -- U.S. Embassies, EducationUSA & Law Faculties - Professor George Edwards, of Indiana University McKinney School of Law, at one of the U.S. Embassies he visited during his summer 2017 overseas lecture tou...9 months ago
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Reclaiming university autonomy - UNIVERSITY autonomy is again back on the front burner. Ideas and Yayasan Sime Darby will be hosting next week the National Higher Education Conference 20...1 year ago
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Welcoming the Right Honourable Helen Clark to NAFSA 2017 - By Esther Brimmer I am delighted to share the news that the Right Honourable Helen Clark, former administrator of the United Nations Development Programme ...1 year ago
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A collective belief in the value of international education - INTO University Partnerships was founded on the principle that education has the power to transform the lives of our students, university communities and e...1 year ago
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Students Experience Bridger Bowl Ski Day - Have you ever experienced downhill skiing in Montana? It is a great sport! Recently a group of 12 international students from Korea, Turkey, and China vent...1 year ago
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Absence Thinking and the Future of Higher Education: Thoughts From the IAU General Conference - Recently in Bangkok the International Association of Universities (IAU), the UNESCO-based association of higher education institutions, held its 15th Gen...1 year ago
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AFS awarded for humanitarian work and intercultural programs - AFS Intercultural Programs has been honored by the 2016 Franco-American Award of Blérancourt for our humanitarian efforts during World Wars…1 year ago
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On diversity as a resource for learning - Is it exploitative to view international students as a learning resource for home students? There is in my view a problematic tension inherent in the conce...1 year ago
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The high cost of funded research in colleges and universities - A college or university that does research ends up spending considerable resources of its own even when most of its research is “funded”. How and why is th...1 year ago
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Deciding what to wear in another culture - Over the years I have sometimes wondered: Sneakers or leather walking shoes for my European travels? Maybe I don’t want my shoes to announce that I’m from ...1 year ago
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The Bunche-Fulbright Line for International Education - Success is often measured by how far someone has gone or how much money they have made. Obviously, failure would be the opposite of this. But what happen...1 year ago
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International Higher Ed in facts and figures - “Universities UK and the International Unit have collaborated to produce their annual overview of key statistics about international students and Higher Ed...2 years ago
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Korea Times Article: Recklessly Recruiting Chinese Studnets - This article looks at the local (Korean) perspective of excessive international student recruitment and its impact. http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/na...2 years ago
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The Wonder of Google - By Yves Salomon-Fernandez It’s not every day that I get to have this type of a mesmerizing experience through the course of my work. Of course students rea...2 years ago
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Sustainable Population through Immigration - Current events in the news sees significant international movements or migration of people for various reasons, pull and push factors etc.. However, be ca...2 years ago
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First-Year Retention Rates - [image: First-Year-Retention-Rates.jpg] First-year retention rates measure the percent of first-year undergraduate students who return for their second y...2 years ago
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Congressional Internships – Ideal Building Blocks - In Working World, Mark and I discuss the importance of having “building blocks” on your resume. These are experiences that show you have survived a rigorou...2 years ago
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VP Biden visits utility s job training for US veterans in Oakland - OAKLAND, California Vice President Joe Biden told US veterans undergoing job training that American companies that left to seek better business conditions ...3 years ago
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Student Perspective: 23 days of change - Jackie Jorgensen, the Eagles Abroad marketing intern, writes: I never knew 23 days could change my life; in just 23 days my perspective on this world was g...3 years ago
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Factors in International Student Decision Making - International students might come from far and wide but they mostly have the same expectations for the schools that they apply to. Prospective students r...3 years ago
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Realignments in International Education - In my final blog on the Sage Handbook of international Higher Education, I thought it appropriate to review some of the concluding themes in the volume’s f...4 years ago
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Office Situation Update/2012 Holiday Schedule - I am pleased to announce that our office is fully operational again. Regarding our holiday schedule: Please note that Global Current will be closed from Mo...5 years ago
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Exploring SKY, LIGHT, PEACE and DUSK in Kyoto - I’ve been in Kyoto, Japan for about two weeks now. This place is magical! Little did I know that autumn is one of the most beautiful times of year, with th...5 years ago
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How To Avoid Becoming a Pseudo Global Citizen - A university official running global programs lamented in his blog that global citizenship, a term that is meant to convey concern for global social justic...6 years ago
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