Practice Area Column

With the growing number of international students on some campuses, educators are rethinking—and expanding—the role of campus writing centers.

Faculty-led programs can add value to students’ experience abroad and benefit faculty members. The most effective of these programs begin with recruiting the right faculty and equipping them to succeed.

STEM students participate in hands-on experiences abroad.

All-women’s colleges cultivate confidence and leadership skills in international students.

Creating an international recruitment plan is both science and art: It needs to be grounded in good data, both external and institutional, and it requires creativity to incorporate that data into institutional priorities and goals.

Institutions are finding that the solution to retaining international student lies in thorough preparation, attending to international students’ specific practical needs, and properly leveraging expertise.

Institutions are developing new opportunities to help students afford study abroad.

Many U.S. colleges and universities are revising their international student recruitment approaches to reach more students in Africa.

Among the many thousands of types of cross-border educational collaborations, the international branch campus is the most substantial and elaborate.

To help these students succeed and feel welcome, institutions create networks of student services aimed at supporting them in ways both small and large.