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December 2005
| International Education Report, December 2005, Full Issue … |
| Assessment: New Tools for New Times Our old teachers told us that travel was “broadening,” and that benign but vague assumption has been the rationale for study abroad ever since. Everyone involved in study abroad feels that it does people good, but there is a need today for study abroad advocates to demonstrate exactly what it does and how — in other words, to make a case. So the old vision is giving way to a new and more utilitarian one. People are asking what study abroad does, how it does it, and under what circumstances it does it best. To fight and win its battle for the internationalization of higher education, the field needs new tools. |
| Who’s Afraid of Financial Aid? Some Basic Facts Financial aid is the engine that makes study abroad – along with much of higher education -- work. It’s also a subject whose supposed intricacies tend to intimidate study abroad advisers. International Education Report recently asked two people experienced in the use of financial aid for study abroad – one from the study abroad side, one from the financial aid office -- to explain a few things about the subject. |
| Step by Step to an Accessible World The democratization of international experience is one of the goals of study abroad programs. Usually this seen as a matter of money — of providing enough assistance so that anyone who wants to go can go. But there is another face to this challenge that has to do with the students whose condition can’t be changed by grants and scholarships. |
| Free Mobility International booklets, articles, journals Available in print and alternative formats. A World Awaits You
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| Coming here and Coming out: Challenges of the International GLBT Student: Coming out can be difficult in many ways. Being a gay international student at an American school is one of them. |
