Teaching, Learning, and Facilitation

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.

Trends & Insights, October 2011: Any account of the forces shaping the continuation, or dissolution, of uneven patterns of student and researcher mobility must account for the phenomenon of regionalism.

By Alan Ruby The last three years have seen a number of developments in the debate about the role of agents in recruiting international students to U.S. schools and colleges. The State Department reaffirmed that its