Sophie Hogan. PieNews July 26, 2022https://thepienews.com/news/us-quarter-billion-dollar-startups/?mc_cid=e2367510dc&mc_eid=40c6b95a0c One quarter of US billion-dollar companies have a founder who attended a US university as an international student, according to a new report from the National Foundation for American Policy. Many big-name-company founders went to the US to study, including SpaceX founder Elon Musk, who went to the University […]
International students are vital to U.S. classrooms, communities, and the economy but the U.S. is losing its edge in attracting them. NAFSA’s annual analysis of the economic contributions of international students found that, in the 2020-2021 school year, the nearly one million international students at U.S. colleges and universities contributed $24.8 billion to the U.S. […]
VEF Past Participant Institutions: https://vefglobal.net/past-participants * Statistics of our past event:Welcomed 10,513 visitors at the event (parents & students)3114 visitors watched the seminars
Gateway International just release a new WHITEPAPER.: International Officers (SIOs) in the Headwinds: Duty of Care (DOC), Global Operations, and International Regulatory Compliance in the Time of COVID-19. Senior International Officers (SIOs) often have a central role in managing an institution’s international risk and compliance and with navigating the health, safety and security nuances associated with […]
Check out the Global Links through New York COIL: https://coil.suny.edu/uncategorized/global-guests/This provides opportunities for faculty around the world to visit each other classes virtually. The hope is then a connection is made for the future.The Building transatlantic partnerships and exchanges: Opportunities for funding (through GATE): Vocational Education Exchage with Germany and Canada.Isabel Dwinger (Hamburg), Project ManagerGATE grant programidwinger@joachim-herz-stiftung.de
The AIFS Abroad team is offering several digital offerings that may be of interest to you and your teams. Please visit our Webinars page (https://www.aifsabroad.com/aifswebinars/) for full details and to register for the events. Virtual Events page (https://www.aifsabroad.com/aifswebinars/students.asp)Kelly M. Holland, M.Ed. (she, her, hers)Vice President, Institutional PartnershipsAIFS Abroadkholland@aifs.com
Study Abroad Association is now planning for 2023 faculty-led programs!Are you looking to run a faculty-led program next year? We are already working with many institutions to plan their overseas and domestic studies. SAA offers faculty-led programs in over 40 countries, in a wide variety of academic disciplines. We are dedicated to providing affordable, high-quality […]
ISA Ireland is offering an online ‘Global Perspectives’ course as well as the September 2022 Faculty Professional Development symposium in Ireland. The ‘Global Perspectives through the Narratives of Ireland’ is an online course designed for Community College students. Funding has become available to provide for a Fall 2022 course for up to 30 students in selected […]
The Fund for Education Abroad announced its 2022-2023 recipients of their annual student education abroad scholarships. 2 California community college students won these awards. (1) Nafisah Fathima: Santa Barbara City College. Studying in United Kingdom for Fall 2022 semester. (2) Alexandra Gallagher: Diablo Valley. Studying in Italy for the 2022-2023 Academic Year
Rachana Bhatt, Angela Bell, Donald L. Rubin, Coryn Shiflet & Leslie Hodges just published an article: Education Abroad and College Completion in Research in Higher Education (2022).The Consortium for Analysis of Student Success through International Education (CASSIE) compiled semester-by-semester records from 221,981 students across 35 institutions, including 30,549 who had studied abroad. The analysis found positive impacts of […]