International student

the international students. This is an ever growing subset of those attending an American university, making up almost 820,000 students across all colleges and universities in the United States during the 2012-13 academic year (Institute of International Education). Even though the number of international students is growing consistently, around seven to eight percent per year over the past couple of years, there is still hostility and an exclusiveness towards this diverse group of students…

The Struggle of International Students at Community Colleges As the United States known to be the land of opportunities, the land of immigrants, better rights, equality, freedom, social interactions, better education, and good health care facilities are merely some of the many attractions that play a major role in attracting People from around the world. Some of these people who get attracted the most is students. Students from different regions around the world looking for opportunities…

International students in American High schools During the last years, the number of international students coming to America has continued to grow at an unbelievable speed. Most of them got here with exchange student J visas and are enrolled either in public or private schools and others came to America with student F visas and are mostly enrolled in private schools or Christian schools. While those students are here to get a better education and for a brighter future than that offered in…

International Students and Financial Challenges Studying in America can bring all sorts of excitement, yet many challenges. Most international students who come to the United States come from China, India, South Korea, and Saudi Arabia ("New Data”). According to the Institute of International Education, over one million international students enrolled in American institutions in the year 2015-2016 (International Students). International students face acculturation issues, such as culture shock,…

to accept to their university and who does not is to create a diverse and unified community. Nonetheless, not all the international students like the idea of mingling with domestic students. There is no explanation to such fact, but it happens and it seems as if no one is ready or simply does not care to talk about it. However, I want to talk about it, an international student, named Chengcheng Xiang ’18, has her own thoughts on this issue. According to Xiang, a foreigner will inherently feel…

Special Project 2 (EDPZ6731) James Silombo, student ID Number 420178723. Jsil3278@uni.sydney.edu.au ACADEMIC SUPERVISOR: Professor Anthony Welch. Topic: How does the recruitment of international students and the establishment of branch campuses impact on higher education in Australia? This essay presents a critical review of two issues arising from the phenomenon of Internationalisation of Higher Education (HE); namely the recruitment of international students and the development of off-shore…

With the growing number of incoming Chinese international students on campus in the past five years, language barrier stands as a major challenge. 300 out of 1700 undergraduate international students at Stony Brook University are from Chinese speaking country according to the International admission office, language barrier is the first challenge for them when they step on campus. Mariana Catalano, a 10 years coordinator of the undergraduate English as Second Language Program (ESL) at Stony…

BACKGROUND This study investigates factors associated with the academic stress experienced by international students attending graduate school in the United States. The study was grounded in a cognitive framework in which the stress due to the academics is important consideration in view of students as the consideration of this situation where the pressure and stress are part of the student’s role and their studies, social support network, and…

In the past few decades, international students’ enrollments in the United States have increased greatly in higher education institutions (Gómez, Urzúa, and Glass, 2014). According to the literature, many international students who attend higher education institutions in the United States find the campus environment to be very stressful, demanding and challenging (Yakunina, Weigold, Weigold, Herecegovc, and Elsayed, 2013). As a result, many international students end up dropping out from their…

Does the huge amount of money spent on international students causes them academic stress Most often when I see my fellow international students, when I ask them how classes are going, the response I often hear is that, they have so many papers to turn in. The problem is not the number of assignments, but they pressure to turn in a perfect assignment t get good grades. I say to myself must we be under this pressure at all times? This is not how school life should be, constantly under stress…