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"From Surviving to Thriving" Next Steps for International Graduate Students: A Call to Action
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Katie Koo; Krishna Bista; Mary Ann Bodine Al-Sharif – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 2025
This article discusses various ways for student affairs professionals, faculty, educators, and policymakers to contribute to the personal, academic, and professional development of international graduate students in the U.S. higher education within their functional areas and their expertise. By highlighting the culturally sensitive support and…
Descriptors: Foreign Students, Graduate Students, Student Personnel Services, Student Personnel Workers
Of "Employer Skills" and "Poetry": Logics of New Arts and Humanities Programs
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Rob Loren Hill – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 2025
Neoliberalism is ubiquitous in higher education. In its dedication to efficiency and measurement, neoliberalism poses threats to the arts and humanities, especially their least measurable, most human qualities. Guided by an institutional logics framework, this multiple case study gauged how arts and humanities faculty can navigate this tension as…
Descriptors: Job Skills, Art Education, Humanities Instruction, Neoliberalism
Teaching Educational Crises Amid (Multiple, Real-Time) Crises
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Natalie Spitzer; Michael A. Goodman – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 2025
In late May 2022, 19 students and two adults were killed in a mass shooting in Uvalde, Texas. Weeks later, the Supreme Court made a landmark decision in the "Dobbs" case, turning abortion regulation back to state control. As instructors of a graduate level course on educational crises and emergency response and as residents of Texas, we…
Descriptors: School Violence, Pregnancy, Graduate Study, Crisis Management
Strangers in the North: Critical Narratives on the Postgraduation Career Transitions of International Doctoral Students
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Bo Zhang; K. Kayon Morgan – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 2025
Data show higher enrollment of international graduate students compared to undergraduates in the United States in 2022, with the trend expected to continue. Many international doctoral students pursue education in the United States, hoping to seek employment and/or employment-based permanent immigration after graduation. Through critical personal…
Descriptors: Personal Narratives, Doctoral Students, Doctoral Programs, Foreign Students
International Graduate Students: Unique Stories and Missing Voices in Higher Education
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Mary Ann Bodine Al-Sharif; Katie Koo; Krishna Bista – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 2025
Amid the globalized environment of higher education, international graduate students remain vital contributors to U.S. institutions as they contribute billions of dollars to the U.S. economy annually, drive innovation, and play a significant role in diversifying and globalizing U.S. institutions. Open Doors reported that international students…
Descriptors: Foreign Students, Student Role, Graduate Students, Barriers
Hearing the Voice of a Graduate Indian International Student in the United States: Why My Voice Matters
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Kriti Gopal – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 2025
This contribution focuses on the experience of an emerging scholar practitioner within higher education who also identifies as an Indian international doctoral student. By using a scholarly personal narrative, the author has described their life experiences and negotiations as a part of their study abroad journey from India to the United States.…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Indians, Student Attitudes, Foreign Students