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.
Internationalization
Many U.S. colleges and universities are revising their international student recruitment approaches to reach more students in Africa.
The challenge is how to create pathways for students to develop empathy both in and out of the classroom.
Millennials and the young professionals of Generation Z wondering how to develop a career in international education are encountering a field that has changed considerably and that continues to evolve.
Mohamed Abdel-Kader, executive director of the Stevens Initiative at The Aspen Institute, shares his unique perspective on internationalization, the role of anti-intellectualism, and what exactly global competency is.
The University of South Florida's solution to a problem encountered by most colleges and universities: a disproportionately low number of men participating in education abroad programs.
To help ease international students' language transition and help pave the way for academic success, many U.S. colleges and universities have turned to pathway programs.
Institutions once tended to partner with each other based on commonalities. Now, like puzzle pieces that must be shaped differently in order to interlock, campuses are actively seeking out some very dissimilar partners.
Amid the ever-tightening constraints of bandwidth and time, institutions are increasingly and creatively partnering with each other to achieve what neither can do alone.