Teaching, Learning, and Facilitation

U.S. higher education institutions are increasingly using the language of “global citizenship” to describe the skills and habits they seek to cultivate in their students.

Trends & Insights, March 13 Report. An increasingly competitive environment of international student recruitment is compelling many institutions to optimize quantity, quality, diversity, time, and budget.

Although diversity and internationalization initiatives in higher education have commonly shared aims of enhancing cultural awareness and understanding, the promoters of each effort are often not viewed as allies. In this newest piece on trends and insights in international education, Gailda Davis

Trends and Insights report from November 2012

There are few higher education institutions that would report disinterest in becoming more internationally connected, more open to attracting international students, or more able to offer broad international research opportunities for faculty. At the same time, few higher education institutions

With increased competition in global higher education, the global movement of talent has never been so active, and Asia is at the forefront of many of these developments.

An array of global and internal domestic factors is shaping the number and pattern of international students enrolling into U.S. higher education institutions. Student enrollments are increasing, and so is the number of U.S. higher education institutions seeking to attract them.

During the past decade higher education's interest in internationalization has intensified, and the concept of civic education or engagement has broadened from a national focus to a more global one, thus expanding the concept that civic responsibility extends beyond national borders.