A theme at this year's Association of International Education Administrators conference was the need to do a better job of integrating international students on American campuses in order to maximize the potential for global learning. The overarching message: student mobility alone won't cut it.
"It's not enough to just say, 'Look, we have X number of international students on campus,'" said Darla K. Deardorff, executive director of the AIEA and an expert on intercultural competence. "So what? What's the impact? What difference does it make? How can we better utilize those resources, as well as our international faculty and scholars, and thinking broadly, the international backgrounds of staff on our campuses? I think we're falling far short."
Read more at Inside Higher Ed: http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2014/02/20/gathering-senior-international-educators-integration-international-students-was