Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 24, 2024

International student enrollment is up at both the undergraduate and graduate levels, especially for the latter – an approximately 22% increase – said NSC research associate Dr. Jeremy Cohen, project lead for the report. 2020 and 2022 brought upswings of more than 20%, while 2021 swooped down almost 14%.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 5, 2024

Since then, the recipient institutions have put their gifts of millions of dollars to use in several ways, seeking to enhance what they offer to the many – and often underprivileged – students that they serve. Northeast College’s College Access Scholarship and Renton Technical College’s McCarthy Bridge Grant program are two examples.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 8, 2024

The average age of the students has decreased to 23. Hamel notes that the residential students are a mix of Maine locals, people from other states in New England, and international students. Post-pandemic, we have more individual students coming to us than actual school contracts.”

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Lewermark Blog

JULY 8, 2020

Introducing a blog for people who know what F, M, J visas are and care about globally mobile students learning across borders and breaking cultural barriers. Given the updated guidance of July 6, 2020, here is a game-showy quiz: The people who work in higher education offices serving International education are: Caught between a Read More.

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Lewermark Blog

JUNE 22, 2020

As universities continue to speculate on what the fall 2020 semester will look like, international students must navigate how to best balance their desire to start a college career this fall versus the regulatory, infrastructure, and travel challenges they face. Early indications report students are eager to begin classes.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

This era saw a significant rise in global academic partnerships, student exchange programs, and an increasing influx of international students seeking educational opportunities abroad. Institutions were driven by the recognition that a global perspective is essential for preparing students for an interconnected world.

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Global Career Compass

MAY 7, 2021

Many followers of my blog are also members or perhaps know of the association and its preeminent work in the field of international education. That is, until 2020… Some of my oldest friends are a result of my ties to the mission of NAFSA. It is the largest organization of its kind in the world.

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NACAC's Admitted

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

The project first began in 2020 and is now in its third intake. Even evangelical students who are part of the Christian majority often report feeling that their worldview is not welcome in classrooms with an academic secular bias.

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EAB

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Catalyzed by the sudden rush online, many institutions have become more focused on the growth of their online programs post-COVID, but many of these programs can’t accommodate international students due to residency requirements. schools offering an online MBA increased 85% between the 2016-17 and 2020-21 school years.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

As the COVID-19 pandemic dawned in Spring 2020, the federal government granted institutions of higher education a series of waivers and flexibilities that allowed them to continue functioning under radically different conditions.

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EAB

JULY 11, 2023

So I would say in that regard, I've met some of these students last year when they were visiting, and some of the students I may have met when they were in middle school because they come to visit us. We have another organization on campus that works with first generation students. Why do you need that? What do you do?

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 17, 2023

In 2020, as the nation contended with the pandemic and Black Lives Matter protests across the country, many historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) saw an uptick in interest and applications. Boyd said the university has also renewed its attention to recruiting international students. “We

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Timely MD

AUGUST 26, 2022

Six out of 10 college students live with mental health disorders. And although the American School Counselor Association (ASCA) recommends a 250-to-1 ratio of students to school counselors , the national average was 415-to-1 for the 2020-2021 academic year. were white, compared with 69% of all undergraduate students in 2011.

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Timely MD

AUGUST 26, 2022

Six out of 10 college students live with mental health disorders. And although the American School Counselor Association (ASCA) recommends a 250-to-1 ratio of students to school counselors , the national average was 415-to-1 for the 2020-2021 academic year. were white, compared with 69% of all undergraduate students in 2011.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 11, 2024

For many of us, navigating the complexities of identity and belonging as Black international students, it marked a seismic shift. For Black international students like me, HBCUs offer something invaluable: sanctuary in an America still grappling with racial and political divisions. Yet, they remain underutilized.

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Lewermark Blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

The post International Educators’ Skills Can Span Political Impasse appeared first on LewerMark International Student Health Insurance. A new documentary on Netflix, The Social Dilemma, is shining light on how social media is engineered to reflect your viewpoints, but it also can expose a very different Read More.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 12, 2024

If you are reading this, I am sure your heart has been tugged on, and you remember where you were sitting in 2020 during a global pandemic. Trevor McCray In late 2020, the 46th president, Donald Trump, signed an act federally banning the implementation of DEI training. “I'm Or so we thought. Seems like the color-blind movement.

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Patter by Pat Thomson

MAY 11, 2025

Grammarly has offered a cloud-based writing assistant since 2009 that has come to be widely used within universities, proving particularly popular with international students writing in a second language. It offers suggestions about grammar, syntax, style and tone which contribute to more effective written communication.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

After a steep pandemic decline, the number of international students studying in the U.S. The total number of international students increased 4% to almost 950,000, and the number of new international students soared 80% to nearly pre-pandemic levels. NAFSA f ound that international students contributed $5.5

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Some of the institutions which saw enrollment numbers increase included Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs), Commodore adds, in part thanks to the boost of awareness from HBCU-alum and Democratic nominee Kamala Harris and the racial reckoning of 2020. Gasman agrees.

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