Recruitment, Enrollment, and Advising

Determining Equivalencies for Bachelor’s Degrees from Israel: An Evaluator’s Conundrum

IEM SPOTLIGHT NEWSLETTER, VOL. 14, Summer ISSUE - August 2017 By: William Bellin, Educational Credential Evaluators For those who are of the mindset that the composition of a U.S. bachelor’s degree consists of general education requirements and a concentration in

A Report on the Three-Year Bologna Bachelor’s Degrees Presentation at the ENIC-NARIC Meeting in Copenhagen, Denmark

IEM SPOTLIGHT NEWSLETTER, VOL. 14, Summer ISSUE - August 2017 By: Jasmin Saidi-Kuehnert, Academic Credentials Evaluation Institute, Inc. Melanie Gottlieb, Deputy Director of American Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers (AACRAO), and Jasmin Saidi-Kuehnert, President of

Evaluating Three-Year Degrees from Europe: Why Is This Still an Issue?

IEM SPOTLIGHT NEWSLETTER, VOL. 14, Summer ISSUE - August 2017 By: Jessica Stannard, NUFFIC The Bologna Declaration of 1999 and the ensuing Bologna Process have brought about many changes in higher education across Europe; the most obvious being the alignment

Reflections on the Bologna Process: Examining the Evolution of the U.S. Perspective

IEM SPOTLIGHT NEWSLETTER, VOL. 14, Summer ISSUE - August 2017 By: Robert Watkins, The University of Texas at Austin, and Melanie Gottlieb, American Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers As the European Higher Education Area (EHEA), more popularly known

A Recruiter’s Guide to Three-Year Bachelor’s Degrees

IEM SPOTLIGHT NEWSLETTER, VOL. 14, Summer ISSUE - August 2017 By: Stephanie Ingvaldson, Sacramento State University More and more international admissions offices are receiving applications from prospective graduate students who hold three-year undergraduate degrees, and not just Bologna-compliant

The Three-Year Indian Degree Conundrum

IEM SPOTLIGHT NEWSLETTER, VOL. 14, Summer ISSUE - August 2017 By: Ujjaini Sahasrabudhe, University of Southern California, and Aleksander Morawski, Foreign Credits In the Institute of International Education’s 2016 Open Doors report, it states that there were 165,918 Indian students

IEM Spotlight - August 2017

The summer issue of IEM Spotlight features a variety of perspectives on three-year degrees and related credentialing issues, which we hope will help administrators set forth policies that are right for their institutions.

How to Retain International Students

By Menachem Wecker It’s a cycle many colleges and universities will recognize: Year after year, international student offices invest big-time money and staff bandwidth recruiting international students. But too many of those students ultimately struggle, pack their bags, and return

Shifting Tides? Understanding International Student Yield for Fall 2017

This report presents findings from a national survey of U.S. higher education institutions to gauge whether shifts have occurred in the admissions yield of international students who have been accepted to academic programs starting in Fall 2017.

LGBTQ+ Student Advising Guide for Education Abroad Professionals

By NAFSA: Association of International Educators Diversity and Inclusion in Education Abroad Subcommittee, LGBTQ+ Working Group: Margaret McCullers, Matt Free, Darren Gallant, Conrad Zeutenhorst, Ashlee Finn and Aby Parsons This resource is designed to help Education Abroad professionals prepare