By Stacie Nevadomski Berdan
THE CHRONICLE OF HIGHER EDUCATION - April 13, 2015
The number of American students studying abroad is on the rise, and
that is a very good thing. But more than just increasing the numbers,
colleges would be well advised to take a hard look at their study-abroad
programs to ensure that they are providing students with a quality
international-study experience at an affordable price. Too many programs
are unnecessarily expensive, and many of them don’t help students
acquire the cross-cultural skills necessary for long-term career success
across a broad spectrum of fields.
Today’s students increasingly recognize that study abroad is one of
the best ways they can acquire the valuable international experience
necessary to work in the 21st-century global marketplace. What they
don’t realize is that all study-abroad programs do not help them equally
in this respect. In an effort to satisfy the growing demand for
international experience, colleges naturally highlight their commitment
to global education. But how global are they?
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