Teaching, Learning, and Scholarship

An increasingly competitive environment of international student recruitment is compelling many institutions to optimize quantity, quality, diversity, time, and budget. Institutions are often expected to recruit a prescribed number of international students while ensuring quality and diversity

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

Early one morning in April 1860, a rider carrying a precious cargo of mail spurred his horse and galloped out of the stables at St. Joseph, Missouri. He would ride for about 100 miles, changing horses every 10 miles, before relinquishing the mail sack to the next rider. That ride began the famous

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

Higher education globalization has been growing with galloping speed. The number of college students worldwide studying outside their borders jumped from 0.8 million in 1975 to 2 million in 2001, reaching close to 3.7 million in 2009.1 It is expected to triple to roughly 8 million by 2025.2 The

During a session at NAFSA's 2012 annual conference, Phil Baty, editor of world university rankings for Times Higher Education, outlined the basic methodology of THE's annually published rankings , which evaluate universities based on performance indicators grouped in five areas: teaching, research

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.