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December 2004
| Internatonal Education Report December 2004 full issue PDF … |
| Crises Abroad: Plan Ahead to Improve the Odds Two young women go looking for fun in Bali -- and disappear. Terrorists attack a train station in Madrid, with students nearby. A young woman is raped while visiting Mayan ruins in Belize. A student has a psychotic break an ocean away from home. Another student is arrested for disorderly conduct. The outbreak of the Iraq War catches American students in the Middle East. |
| Schools Look to SEVIS Refund to Boost International Enrollment The University of Texas-Austin is among the two-thirds of U.S. colleges and universities that say they’ve seen a decrease in new international graduate student enrollments for the third straight year. |
| Resources for Health and Safety Abroad |
| Drop in International Graduate Enrollment not as Bad as Feared A new Council of Graduate Schools survey finds that the number of new international students enrolling in U.S. colleges and universities has declined 6 percent from last year. Although this is the third straight year in which the CGS has reported a decline, it is not as steep as was feared based on earlier survey data. |
| Big Ideas, Small Schools: Study Abroad Innovations at Liberal Arts Schools It’s recognized that small liberal arts colleges offer a high degree of intellectual freedom. Some of these schools are applying that freedom to the traditional format of the study abroad program. |
| In the News Option Allows Payment of SEVIS I-901 Fee Through Western Union; Study in Australia No Longer a Cheaper Alternative; Study Abroad Scholarships Offered for Efforts in Teaching Spanish; Streamlined Security Advisory Opinion Should Help Visa Processing Times; Taiwanese University Recruits in America; Rate of Visa Refusals Way Up in UK |
| Resources Beyond Borders: Profiles in International Education; Free Tools to Explain SEVIS Fee System to Campus Constituencies; International Exchange Locator; Funding U.S. Studies: Graduate and Postgraduate Opportunities for Latin Americans 2nd Edition; Financial Resources for International Study |
| Study Abroad Incorporates Undergraduate Research Opportunities The International Honors Program, (IHP) which is affiliated with Boston University, is a community-based, comparative study program that gives students the opportunity to explore themes related to sociopolitical issues in several countries for a semester or a year. An important component of this initiative is undergraduate research. |
