Chris R Glass, Rachawan Wongtrirat, Stephanie Buus

International Student Engagement

Strategies for Creating Inclusive, Connected, and Purposeful Campus Environments

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Produktbeschreibung

Outlines approaches to the academic and social integration of international students at US colleges and universities. It describes concrete examples of strategies to enhance the international student experience across a wide range of institutional types, and explores actions that have enabled colleges and universities to create more inclusive, connected, and purposeful campus environments for international students.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 124
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. November 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 340g
• ISBN-13: 9781620361474
• ISBN-10: 1620361477
• Artikelnr.: 41195220

Autorenporträt

Chris R. Glass is an Assistant Professor of Educational Foundations and Leadership at Old Dominion University. He has been actively involved in national efforts to identify educational experiences that contribute to international students' positive development. He is a lead researcher on the Global Perspectives Inventory (GPI) which examines the relationship between educational experiences and global learning outcomes based on survey responses of 70,000 undergraduates, including over 5,000 international students at 135 American colleges and universities. Rachawan Wongtrirat holds a Ph.D. in Higher Education Administration with a concentration in International Higher Education Leadership from Old Dominion University, a M.Ed. in Educational Psychology from Chulalongkorn University, and a B.Ed. in Business Education from Kasetsart University, Thailand. Wongtrirat is a former EducationUSA adviser and the Program Officer for the Advising and Education Services Unit at the Institute of International Education (IIE) Southeast Asia office in Bangkok. Wongtrirat has given presentations at national and regional conferences such as NAFSA: Association of International Educators, Colonial Academic Alliance Global Education Conference, and the EducationUSA East Asia & Pacific Regional Conference. Stephanie Buus current research interests center around the influence of internationalization processes on the higher education systems of the United States and the European Union. She has participated in study abroad programs at the high school, college, graduate school and post-doctoral levels in several countries and spent more than a decade working as an international researcher at institutes and universities in Denmark and Sweden. A graduate of the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Stephanie received her Ph.D. in Scandinavian Languages & Literatures from the University of California, Berkeley and holds an Ed.S. from Old Dominion University. In August 2014, Stephanie

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword Fanta Aw Introduction. Strengthening Campus Commitments to
International Students 1. Recognizing and Addressing Cultural Diversity in
the Classroom 2. Engaging International Students in Campus Leadership 3.
Friends, Peers, and Social Networks 4. Family Relationships, Technology,
and Social Media 5. Campus Contexts That Foster a Sense of Belonging 6.
Recommendations for Practice The Authors Index