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…
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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.
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, …
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 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 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…
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…
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…
This longitudinal, mixed-method study relied on the assumption that international students as newcomers to the American culture experience conceptual socialization which enables them to gain competency in the target language through exposure to the target language culture. By co…
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…
Academic stress is a serious problem faced by international students. 132 undergraduate and graduate students studying at various educational institutions in the United States of America were surveyed on the stress they experience when confronted by 10 common academic situations…
International populations face difficulties adjusting to a new culture. This is especially true for international students, who have to adjust to a new country and face academic demands concurrently. Research has explored various factors that impact psychological adjustment of i…