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12/29/2014

 
We have added a list of Christian Colleges and universities offering fully accredited online degree programs and additional Christian colleges with campus-based programs at http://www.college-scholarships.com/christian_colleges.htm.


Elsewhere on the website are links to 70+ online scholarship search sites and information on numerous subjects of interest to college-bound students of all ages.


As always, you suggestions are welcome.

Thanks and Best Wishes,
Dan Rosenfield
American Educational Guidance Center


Chinese Students Share Their Lives After Studying Abroad

12/23/2014

 
ISV Ambassador, Lu Sun follows up with four Chinese students and how studying in the United States changed their lives.

It can be seen that more and more Chinese students are studying abroad. From 2006 to 2013, the number of students taking undergraduate courses in the United States has grown from 9,309 to 93,768, and graduate students have grown from 47,617 to 103,505. People choosing to study abroad have different reasons but they have been changed after studying abroad.

Becoming open-minded is the main change for international students.

Read the entire article here.

Where do America’s international students come from?

12/10/2014

 
Through its higher education system, the US student population is slowly shedding an unfortunate image it may have once had of being rather parochial. The US continues to be the destination of choice for students worldwide, with international student enrolment growing by 8% last year, according to new figures released by the Institute of International Education (IIE) in its latest report Open Doors. The US now hosts 19% of the world’s 4.5 million globally mobile students, taking in more than any other country – and twice as many as the UK does, which is in second place.

Tracking trends over 15 years, the data offers insights into both international students arriving in the US and Americans travelling abroad. It can be summarised with one word – competition.

The often-discussed “turn to the East” in US professional, business and academic terms is also clear in the increasing chance for American college and university students to mix with those from Asia. Half of all international students in the US now come from just three countries: China, India and South Korea.

Chinese students alone now represent 31% of all international students in the US – or 274,439 – five times as many as in 2000 when it was only 11%, and students from India account for 12%, or 96,754.

But these trends may be changing: while the number of Chinese students coming to the US has grown for the fifth year in a row, the rate of this growth has slowed. The Chinese government has massively increased its own domestic spending to build home-grown, world-class institutions and higher education capacity as a way to stop a historic, chronic brain drain.


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You'd Be Surprised What Chinese College Students Think Of America These Days

12/8/2014

 
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What You Need to Know: Immigration Reform

12/1/2014

 
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What’s on the Table for Thanksgiving?

12/1/2014

 
Posted on 27 November 2014. Tags: Carrie Circosta, international students, Thanksgiving, turkey




What are the typical types of food Americans eat for Thanksgiving? Our Editor in Chief shares what’s on her table for the holiday.

I decided to write an article about Thanksgiving food because I’m looking forward to eating all of it.

I read an article on the Washington Post about the top eight Thanksgiving foods and the history behind each of them. The foods they listed were:

  • Apple cider
  • Turkey
  • Cranberry Sauce
  • Oyster stuffing
  • Sweet potatoes with marshmallows
  • Tamales
  • Rice
  • Pumpkin pie
Some of these foods I’ve never seen on our table for Thanksgiving, like rice, oyster stuffing, and tamales. But it really just depends on the family. So I’m going to share the food my family normally has for Thanksgiving.

Teaching International Students

12/1/2014

 
December 1, 2014

ByElizabeth Redden
In the past few years it’s not been unusual for Don Bacon to walk into his classroom on day one and find that half his students are from China. “I realized I’m going to have to change how I do some things,” said Bacon, a professor of marketing at the University of Denver.

“If you do some things that don’t work great for 10 percent of your students but work for the other 90 percent you can probably keep doing that and be successful as a teacher,” he said (though he noted that wouldn’t be optimal either). “When it gets to be half the class and you’re realizing you’re not meeting the needs of half the class, that’s a problem.”

As U.S. campuses have dramatically increased their international student populations in recent years, more and more faculty members are encountering a different demographic of student than they are used to – or at least they’re encountering that demographic more frequently. They’re seeing more non-native speakers of English who in many cases are unfamiliar or uncomfortable with American classroom norms: participating in classroom discussions, asking the professor a question, engaging in group work. Plagiarism can be a problem, in part due to different citation practices in different countries. 

New data from the Institute of International Education show that the number of international students at U.S. campuses has increased by 72 percent since 2000, fueled in large part by a fivefold increase in the number of students from the dominant sending country, China. A total of 231 U.S. universities now host 1,000 or more international students, compared to 135 in 2000.

Read the entire article here.

DISCOVERING THE JOY: SERVING THE CITY WITH CHINESE SCHOLARS

12/1/2014

 
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