The concept of "dual diploma program" is one of the current trends in international education, and the dual diploma partnership between the State University of New York System and Turkish universities is the pioneer of this concept. The purpose of this study was to determine the…
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The purpose of this interdisciplinary study was to explore the experiences of al-rihla of International Muslim Graduate Students and to compare them to those of the Medieval Muslim Travelers. This qualitative study expands on the sparse existing literature by providing a new per…
Despite international students' growing presence in counseling related programs in the United States of America (U.S.), their unique difficulties and needs that merit attention, and their significant contributions in bringing global perspectives into higher education, there is a…
The research questions of this study focused around exploring EFL speaking international students' perceptions regarding participation and social presence in face-to-face classroom and web-based forum, and the characteristics of web-based communication that encouraged and discou…
The motivation for this study was the lack of literature on how evangelical churches and para-church ministries evangelize, disciple, and mobilize international students. Generating a theory of international students’ conversion experiences requires a comprehensive understanding…
This research developed a history of Chi Alpha’s outreach to international students in America. The work recognizes that the same events can support different views, but as of yet, no research has published a comprehensive account in this area. The work of Chi Alpha has greatly …
The mandate for global evangelism finds its foundation in the character and nature of God, who is not willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance. Jesus, who came to seek and save the lost, commanded His followers to go to all nations and proclaim the G…
International students are crucial to the UNITED STATES’ higher education, both for academic reputation and economic advantages. This mixed-method study examines the traumatic experiences of African international graduate students’ in North Dakota in the United States of America…
This dissertation explores affective politics of two college microbiology laboratory courses. Drawing from studies of affect, care and politics of aesthetics, I examine how bodies of science education and science education bodies are reproduced and transformed through particular…
It is not known how international and domestic students described the effectiveness, if any, of peer mentoring on intercultural competence at a Western, private Christian university. The purpose of this qualitative descriptive study was to investigate how international and domes…
Posttraumatic stress symptoms have been consistently found to be elevated among people of color due to experiences of discrimination. Current literature on posttraumatic stress symptoms has mainly focused on race and ethnicity. It is possible that Muslim international students, …
In 2020, over a million international students enrolled at universities in the United States. A significant percent come from Muslim-majority countries whose governments sponsor their education abroad. As overall international enrollments decrease, recruiting this population rem…
International student enrollment in U.S. higher education institutions is steadily increasing. In 2018/2019, more than one million international students were pursuing their higher education in the U.S.
When international graduate students and their families participate in study abroad experiences, there are many challenges and opportunities that accompany these experiences. Depending on the context of the study abroad experience, some might be characterized as both opportuniti…
As the number of students studying in the United States (U.S.) has risen, scholars have increasingly paid attention to multiple aspects of the international student experience. Despite a proliferation of studies generally addressing the topic of international students, few studi…
As of Spring 2013, this is the first research study of its type which has looked at and analyzed the results of qualitative interviews conducted with Kurdish Iraqi students studying abroad in the government's, Mhe-HCDP, foreign study abroad program. The study looks at student's …
Despite the increasing presence of Saudi Arabian international college students in American higher education, the literature regarding the experience of Saudi students in the United States is limited. This qualitative study explored and described the lived experiences of 9 male …
The purpose of this study was to explore the major acculturation challenges faced by Saudi female students who study in the U.S. and to develop a scale to measure potential acculturation challenges. The construction of the scale was based on a table of specification that include…
From a Western perspective, North Americans and Western Europeans perceive Muslim women as being oppressed (Andrea 2009; Lutz 1997, 96; Ozyurt 2013). Led by this assumption, some view studying abroad as an international student as an experience that allows Muslim women the oppor…