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Mingxin Qu; Martin Forsey – SAGE Open, 2024
Internationalization and the concomitant flow of cultural diversity often associated with it are highly prized by universities; many tertiary institutions claim internationalization of the campus, the curriculum, research, and the student body as a major goal, a key performance indicator. However, in the current climate of global international…
Descriptors: Foreign Students, Foreign Countries, Asians, Student Motivation
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Anderson, Tim – Journal of Higher Education, 2020
Postsecondary institutions in the global north have rapidly internationalized, driven mainly by the proliferation of international students and responses to these changing demographics. This internationalization has captured attention across various platforms, including increased media focus directed toward these students and the primary and…
Descriptors: News Reporting, Refugees, Foreign Students, College Students
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Zhang, Liang; Pu, Shi – Education Economics, 2017
We used housing assignment data from a college in China to investigate peer effects on college grades. Study results provided some evidence for peer effects in college housing units. First, peer effects through means occurred during both fall and spring semester of the first year in college, with estimated effect much larger than that in previous…
Descriptors: College Housing, Grades (Scholastic), Grade Point Average, College Freshmen
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Yao, Christina W. – Journal of College and University Student Housing, 2016
Chinese students are currently the largest international student population in the United States (UNESCO Institute for Statistics, 2014). However, little research exists on these particular students' lived experiences with language and interactions with domestic students and how these experiences affect their sense of belonging in residence halls.…
Descriptors: Language Skills, Sense of Community, Foreign Students, Influences
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Khambhaita, Priya; Bhopal, Kalwant – Race, Ethnicity and Education, 2015
Given the financial implications for studying at a higher education institution, students are faced with many decisions both in terms of the topics they wish to study but also the decision of whether to remain at home or move away. The aim of this article is to compare the experiences of South Asian (Indian, Bangladeshi and Pakistani) female…
Descriptors: Ethnicity, Social Class, Females, Decision Making
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Coles, Rebecca; Swami, Viren – Journal of Research in International Education, 2012
The present research explores the sociocultural adjustment of international students and the role played by university structures in the process. The adjustment process of international students has been modelled in psychological literature as a U-curve, a learning curve and most recently as a long, uneven and unending process of change. Yet,…
Descriptors: Foreign Students, Undergraduate Students, Asians, Student Adjustment