Counseling international students: Issues, concerns, and programs

✍ Scribed by Bea Wehrly

• Publisher: Springer US
• Year: 1986
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 698 KB
• Volume: 9
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0165-0653
• DOI: 10.1007/bf00116431

✦ Synopsis

Journeying to study at a distant university is not new in the history of higher education. In the twelfth and thirteenth centuries many students traveled to cities like Paris, Bologna and Salerno to participate in advanced studies. However, the numbers of students enrolling at distant post-secondary institutions and the countries of origin of these international students have changed quite drastically since the midpoint of the 20th century.

In summarizing a 1977 UNESCO survey of access to higher education in Europe, Herman (1981) stated that about 70°70 of all foreign students who were studying in one of the countries of the European Region were coming from other regions. In increasing numbers, students from non-Western nations were shown to be coming to study at higher educations centers in western nations. At the beginning of the decade of the 1980's, nearly two-thirds of all foreign students of the world were enrolled in higher education in Canada, France, Great Britain, the Sovjet Union, the United States, and West Germany (Scully, 1981, p. 14).

In the United States of America, the post-World War II era has been a time of burgeoning enrollments of students from other countries. In increasing numbers students from non-Western nations have joined others on the U.S.A. campuses, turning the college and university communities into microcosms of the many cultures that currently co-exist on Planet Earth.