International Higher Education Consulting Blog
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U.S. Congresman Mike Quigley (D-IL 5th District) Supports International Students #YouAreWelcomeHere - #IntlEd is one of America's best exports. In addition to $36.9 billion & 450,000 jobs, #IntlStudents bring countless cultural & academic benefits to the ...1 week ago
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Understanding and Supporting Self-Advocacy While Abroad - Raise your hand if you think that self-advocacy is a simple, one-dimensional thing. Raise your hand again if you think that self-advocacy is something that...4 weeks ago
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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 ...2 months ago

International Education and Related Blogs
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“Josh Recommends” for the Week of April 21, 2018 By Josh Garrick - Categories: Best Of Traveling Body: *“Josh Recommends” for the Week of April 21, 2018 By Josh Garrick * *Opera Orlando’s Wondrous Annual Gala Celebration...4 hours ago
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Funding boost for Commonwealth scholarship scheme - The UK government has announced a £5m funding boost to the Queen Elizabeth Commonwealth Scholarships that will create an additional 150 scholarships by 2...1 day ago
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Prevent The Risk of Identity Theft While Studying Abroad - Gone are the days when thieves stole purses and wallets and settled for the coins and notes in there. In 2016, more than 791 million identities were report...1 day ago
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Dispatches from Paris, France: AACRAO IESC Tour of the Business Grande Ecoles and Groningen Declaration Network Summit, April 2018 - April 19th, 2018 April in Paris. 80 degrees and sunny. Paris is a city built for walking and my colleagues from AACRAO IESC and I together kept daily log t...1 day ago
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The Art & Science of Creating Good Videos - Vietnamese get most of their information from online sources, including social media, primarily Facebook. They also watch a lot of video, 2 hours, 43 minu...2 days ago
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AP Roundup on Travel - AP Explains: For Americans, big changes in travel to Cuba By MICHAEL WEISSENSTEIN , ASSOCIATED PRESS April 16, 2018 - 1:20 PM HAVANA — Raul Castro's time ...3 days ago
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Three Strategies for the International Education Job Search - I witness patterns that are common to job seekers who are eager to break into the field of international education (or a cross-cultural career). These patt...4 days ago
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At last. A Ranking With Cambridge at the Bottom - *Cambridge usually does well in national and global rankings. The most recent ARWU from Shanghai puts it in third place and although it does less well in ...1 week ago
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Ways to Live Like a Local as an International Student in the US - Have you ever heard the expression, “When in Rome, do as the Romans do!”? This is the mantra you should adopt when you become an international student in...1 week ago
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Best Tips for TOEFL/IELTS Success - Your TOEFL or IELTS exam date is just around the corner! As an international student interested in attending university abroad, It’s important to improve y...1 week ago
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Google Trends Shows US Recruitment Problem, and Canada’s Gain - Canada’s success in recruiting international students over the past few years, and the corresponding struggles in the US, have been well documented and m...1 week ago
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Webinar: Future-proof International Enrollment at American Universities and Colleges - [image: webinar by choudaha on universities and colleges prepare for future ready strategies of growing international enrollment] A variety of megatrends i...1 week ago
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Research Finds Campus Career Services Valued Mostly by Minority/First Gen/Nontraditional Students - Findings from a 2017 Strada-Gallup student survey provide a perspective on which students appear to derive the most benefit from their campus career servic...2 weeks ago
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African Climate Change Week: Policy reflections from African Leader of Tomorrow scholarship - As African Climate Change Week is marked in Nairobi this week, I find myself reflecting on public policy research that I am doing in Canada as an African...2 weeks 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...3 weeks ago
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Member Spotlights: Winter 2018 - We are starting a Member Spotlight series in our blog to highlight our individual members and celebrate the diversity in our membership. Three members have...5 weeks ago
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Forum Conference Session: Business Transaction or Educational Partnership? - My friend Lisa Chieffo from the University of Delaware and I have teamed up to lead a Forum conference session on developing guidelines for the business re...1 month 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 ...1 month ago
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International Higher Education Consulting is sponsoring the 2018 IEI (International Educators of Illinois) conference March 8-9, 2018 in Schaumburg, Illinois - This will be my third straight year sponsoring the IEI conference. Unfortunately, I won’t be able to attend this year and I’m sending best wishes to all fo...1 month ago
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8 razones que conspiran contra el éxito de muchos proyectos - Presentar un proyecto y que este sea financiado no es tarea simple. Es más bien una empresa bastante compleja que conlleva una buena dosis de empeño y ard...1 month ago
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Spring Coming Soon (we hope…) - The days are suddenly beginning to be quite a bit longer, and thank goodness for that! It has been kind of a rough winter here in Essoyes (and indeed all a...1 month 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 #...1 month 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 ...2 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...3 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...6 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...7 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...7 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...11 months 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 ...11 months 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...1 year 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...1 year 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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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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