Successful international education professionals match the efficacy of their work with a robust set of metrics and messaging to make the field’s stories and data hit home.
Alan Ruby, a senior fellow and senior scholar of the Alliance for Higher Education and Democracy, shares his perspective on the state of the field and why research findings must guide its practice.
Students need to be able to move fluidly between different vantage points, including disciplinary models, distinctive cultural contexts, and transnational perspectives.
As the value of higher education in general is increasingly brought into question, international educators must emphasize in very real terms the value of investing in international education and learning.
To help these students succeed and feel welcome, institutions create networks of student services aimed at supporting them in ways both small and large.