International Higher Education Consulting Blog
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18 Examples of Disability Inclusive Marketing in Study Abroad - Everyone wants to be inclusive. Being inclusive is being respectful and welcoming. But in practical terms what does being inclusive look like? How can disa...
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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 ...7 months ago
International Education and Related Blogs
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Creative pedagogy in English learning explored at EA 2018 - Teachers’ roles in facilitating good educational outcomes for students and the community, as well as the adoption of new and creative modes of delivery w...2 hours ago
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5 Great Tips For Getting A Passport Fast - Categories: Best Of Traveling Body: The need to get a new or renewed passport within a short period can be prompted by various situations, such as losing...1 day ago
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Trains, planes and automobiles: traveling within the US - Once you've made it to a university or college in the US, you'll start to find that you’ll have quite a bit of free time to fill. Use your weekends and bre...2 days ago
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Who Needs an English Language Proficiency Test? - September 21st, 2018 English proficiency tests are typically associated with international students, but there are a wide variety of reasons that organizat...4 days ago
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Free University Fair for Students in the Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg - Are you a student that lives in the Netherlands and would like to earn your undergraduate degree in the US? You’re in luck! Northwest Missouri State Univ...4 days ago
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Strengthening the public sector in Africa: Key takeaways from the 2018 IPAC Conference - The 70th Institute of Public Administration of Canada (IPAC) Annual Conference was held at the Hilton Hotel in Quebec from August 19 to 22, 2018. It was ...5 days ago
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Happy 9th Birthday, Capstone Vietnam! - This week, Capstone Vietnam, a full-service educational consulting company that I co-founded in 2009 and of which I am managing director, celebrated its 9t...5 days ago
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Philosophy Department Will Ignore GRE Scores - The philosophy department at the University of Pennsylvania has taken a step away from fairness and objectivity in university admissions. It will no longer...6 days ago
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Personal Speculations About Medical Maladies in Cuba, Change in Travel Advisory - by John McAuliff The New York Times over the Labor Day weekend published a front page article on the medical problems affecting US and Canadian diplomats i...6 days ago
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Report from Essoyes: Les Vendanges 2018 - “It’s been a good year!!” my friend Béthsabée announced, when I stopped by to say hello and ask the vendange was going this year. “It’s been a very good ye...2 weeks ago
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Teachers are transformed by study abroad, too! - Welcome back to a new academic year. Here at Seminars we are getting ready for January programs and planning May/June programs as well. Interest in faculty...2 weeks ago
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NACAC: International Undergraduate Enrollment Trends and Strategies - Political turbulence and the resulting effect on the decline of international student enrollment and revenue is the new normal for many higher education in...
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Many Summer Work Travel Programs in Need of More J-1 Participants - The J-1 visa provides individuals from around the world the opportunity to take part in a cultural work and study exchange. This program is beneficial to...1 month ago
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New Research Blog - I'm coming up to the end of my contract at Leeds, so it feels like a good time to make a fresh start with a new (hopefully more frequently updated) researc...2 months 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 months 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...3 months 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...3 months 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...3 months 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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The Future Agenda for Internationalization in Higher Education - now published! - After many months of work with my co-editor, Laura Rumbley, I'm delighted to advise that "The Future Agenda for Internationalization in Higher Education"...
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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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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...5 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 #...6 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...8 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...11 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...1 year 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...1 year 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...2 years 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 ...2 years 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...2 years 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...3 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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Monday, June 11, 2012
IHEC Blog is now on Pinterest
A couple of months ago I (meaning International Higher Education Consulting) jumped on the Pinterest bandwagon and you can find me/IHEC at http://pinterest.com/IHECBlog/. I must admit that my time on the site has been limited and I don't have much on the the IHEC Blog but I do hope to change that as it seems relatively easy to Pin things...stay tuned!
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