Data Collection and Analysis

Responding to International Graduate Student Enrollment Trends: Lessons for the Future

Download the March/April 2023 Issue By Radomir Ray Mitic, PhD Higher education leaders in the United States continue to grapple with several enrollment challenges. These challenges include the “demographic cliff” (Grawe 2018), COVID-19’s influence on the growth of online programming (Ferguson 2021)

Sharing Results for Effective Advocacy

How do we communicate results from data collected through surveys and interviews to improve international education programs and services? How can we best share these results with either scholarly or practitioner/policy-oriented audiences to advocate for implementing necessary change to lead to

OFLC Public Disclosure Data and Program Statistics

Access the OFLC Performance Data web page. The Department of Labor's Office of Foreign Labor Certification (OFLC) Performance Data web page contains useful current and historical data on prevailing wage determinations and labor certifications for the PERM, LCA (H-1B, H-1B1, E-3), H-2A, H-2B, CW-1

Submitting CIP Code Nominations to SEVP for the DHS STEM Designated Degree Program List

DHS instituted an annual, recurring deadline of August 1 for interested parties to nominate additional Classification of Instructional Programs (CIP) codes for the DHS STEM Designated Degree Program List. The next annual submission deadline will be August 1, 2024. NAFSA encourages institutions to

Katy Lane, PhD

Katy Lane, PhD is the director of the Center for International Business Studies, Mays Business School at Texas A&M University. She has worked in international education for nearly 15 years, creating new programs and initiatives, providing oversight for outreach and risk management, and leading

DHS Entry/Exit Overstay Report

Each year, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) generates a "report to provide data on departures and overstays, by country, for foreign visitors to the United States who were expected to depart in each Fiscal Year." DHS posts the annual overstay reports on its Entry/Exit Overstay Report page

Assessment of Global Learning Toward Accreditation

This AGL session explores assessment of global learning for accreditation standards, even as those standards are still sometimes being defined. Institutional administrators and faculty of discipline specific programs are challenged to know where and how their campus or department's global learning

Mining and Analyzing Data for Effective Education Abroad Decisionmaking

How can education abroad offices collect and use data for decisionmaking? Successful use of data can be applied to program review, student assessment, and in predicting long-term trends. In many cases, the data you need may already exist in your databases. Knowing how to mine that data so that it

Model Staffing: Evaluating Your Office Structure and Effectiveness

International education managers are tasked with thinking strategically to meet organization-wide expectations while sustaining a customer-centric office environment.

Applied Analysis for Strategic Decision Making

This e-Learning seminar introduces international educators to strategies to help analyze and reveal relationships between and among variables in data.