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How South Korea Outpaces the U.S. in Engineering Degrees

One in four South Korean college students majors in engineering, compared to one in 20 in the U.S.

Report: U.S. Campuses Growing More International

American colleges and universities have made significant gains in becoming more international in scope, but the progress varies by sector, says a new survey released Wednesday by the American Council on Education.

Q&A with Allan Goodman: The Rising Tide of International Students

Allan Goodman, president of the Institute of International Education, discusses the growing surge of students studying abroad.

China to America Student Flow Continues to Grow

The influx of Chinese students in America helps promote and incubate a global workforce.

Pre-G-8 Summit Meeting: Leaders Urged to Mold Higher Education into Stabilizing Force in Nations

Institutional leaders must focus on how to bring stability and prosperity to their societies, a U.S. state department official said Thursday at a global conference on higher education.

Scholars, Administrators Urged to Develop Globally-focused STEM Programs

If program leaders want their STEM proposals to stand out at the National Science Foundation, think global and think collaboratively, two NSF officials said Friday at a conference on producing more globally-minded STEM students.

International Education Workshop Focuses on STEM Internships, Work Abroad Programs

Academic officials attending a workshop hosted by the Institute of International Education were urged to develop STEM-focused work abroad programs such that students can achieve benefits that can be measured.

Dr. Eckhard Groll

LeRoy Walker, U.S. Olympic Committee’s First Black Chairman, Dies

LeRoy Walker, the first African-American to lead the U.S. Olympic Committee and the first Black man to coach an American Olympic team, died Monday. He was 93.

Shaken by Shooting, Chinese Still Seek U.S. Colleges

Shaken by the shooting deaths of two Chinese students near the University of Southern California, China is unlikely to slow its pace of sending its students to U.S. universities.

Spreading Hope in Haiti through Music

Young American musicians, such as Lawrence University’s Sam Golter, have been teaching music to Haitian youth in the island nation, which is still recovering from a massive earthquake in January 2010.

Haitian music students

Two Professors, One Class, Two Continents

Using streaming video, Dr. Yvette Christiansë at New York’s Barnard College and Dr. Isabel Hofmeyr of University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa, co-teach students about the diasporas of the Indian Ocean.

Yvette Christiansë

An Editor’s Journey: Seeing Haiti’s Future in the Village of Hope

In this second story of a two-part series, Diverse senior editor Yvette Moy recounts how her volunteer team spent the last three days of a week-long Haiti trip reconnecting with the children she and others began helping almost three years ago.

Haitian children

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