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W.Va. College to Offer Homeland Security Degree

W.Va. College to Offer Homeland Security Degree FAIRMONT, W.Va.Fairmont State Community and Technical College plans to offer an associate’s degree in homeland security beginning this fall. The school’s governing board approved the two-year degree recently. “To our knowledge, this is the first homeland security associate’s degree to be announced, and absolutely the first that has […]

Lawmaker Calls for More Training To Improve Student Visa Program

Lawmaker Calls for More Training To Improve Student Visa Program By Charles Dervarics College and federal employees need more training to make the nation’s new student visa system work effectively, says a member of the Congressional Black Caucus. Amid mounting concern about the new Student and Exchange Visitor Information System (SEVIS), the U.S. House of […]

Bringing Color to the International Intellectual Table

Bringing Color to the International Intellectual TableBy Dr. Kimberly Battle-Walters There has never been a time like today where the need to understand other cultures has been so paramount. With a world population exceeding 6 billion people, a global economy that is deeply interconnected, and precarious political ideologies that instigate wars — we fundamentally need […]

International Educational Exchange: The Best Defense

International Educational Exchange: The Best DefenseBy Evelyn Hamilton We are living in perilous times. They are times of instability, intolerance and uncertainty. Each day, we are bombarded with images and ideologies that force us to admit our vulnerability as global citizens. The wall that seemed to protect the United States from the ills that plagued […]

Riding the High Tide

Riding the High Tide India has surpassed China as the leading sender of foreign students to the United States, so why are its students increasingly drawn to U.S. universities?By Shilpa Banerji When 24-year-old Anil Mukherji joined Louisiana State University as a postdoctoral research assistant in chemistry in 1957, he was one of four Indians in […]

Paris Noir

Paris NoirStudy abroad program explores historical, cultural, intellectualconnections between African Americans and the “City of Lights”By Robert J. Vickers Over the course of American history, Paris has stood out as an intriguing place for African Americans. Josephine Baker renounced American racism along with her citizenship in favor of the more accepting French capital and — […]

21st Century Higher Education: A Global View

21st Century Higher Education: A Global View Our two opinion pieces, “BI Forum” and the “Last Word,” written by Evelyn Hamilton and Dr. Kimberly Battle-Walters respectively, touch on a similar theme — the urgent need to understand cultures other than our own. Indeed, this need has never been greater. The current environment in which we […]

Grants & Awards

Arizona State University’s College of Business will receive a $50 million gift from Wm. Polk Carey, chairman of New York City-based investment firm W.P. Carey & Co. LLC and grandson of John Samuel Armstrong, the legislative founder of Arizona State. The gift will endow the W.P. Carey School of Business at ASU. Fisk University (Tenn.) […]

Leadership & Policy

Colleges’ Success in International Education Draws National Recognition

Colleges’ Success in International Education Draws National Recognition NEW YORKColleges and universities that have been successful in encouraging international study and increasing participation in the international elements of teaching and learning were recognized last month by the Institute of International Education (IIE) in New York City. In presenting the second annual Andrew Heiskell Awards for […]

Minorities Shy From International Studies, Careers

Minorities Shy From International Studies, CareersScholars say lack of data makes it harder to understand whyBy Eleanor Lee Yates DURHAM, N.C.The demand today for employees who speak foreign languages and are internationally savvy is greater than ever. But few minorities enroll in college international programs, and few choose careers that involve global work. Two scholars […]

Johnson C. Smith Receives Largest Gift In School’s History

Johnson C. Smith Receives Largest Gift In School’s History CHARLOTTE, N.C.Johnson C. Smith University received more than $3.9 million last month from the Duke Endowment, a private foundation established in 1924 by industrialist and philanthropist James B. Duke. The grant, which is provided annually for both general operating support and for special projects and programs, […]

English, Foreign Language Job Seekers Face Major Decline in Available Positions

English, Foreign Language Job Seekers Face Major Decline in Available PositionsBy Kendra Hamilton There were probably plenty of long faces at the annual convention for professors of English and foreign languages last month, as new data indicated the current crop of job seekers would face the toughest job market since the recession of the early […]

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