Study abroad

Money, power and student mobility are among the topics as educators grapple with what globalization really means.

In challenge to billing practice popular with colleges, Massachusetts lawyer takes on Wheaton's policy of charging full institutional tuition and fees for students overseas.

Experts discuss a growing focus on accountability in study abroad, efforts to assess campus internationalization efforts more generally, and where the gaps in research are.

Membership organization releases a set of standards for the field against the backdrop of more intense scrutiny from without.

With the dollar declining, fuel surcharges rising, and an economy slowing, the impact on the number of Americans studying abroad -- and where they go -- could be significant.

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute will become one of the few science-centric institutions to expect study-abroad experience from all its students.

As interest in ASL and overseas study grows, new programs offer the opportunity to study foreign sign language and deaf culture abroad.

Much of the research on study-abroad programs has looked at the growing number of American students who spend a summer or semester overseas, or the number of foreign students who come to the United States. A new survey, released today, looks beyond the "demand" side of the equation -- the American colleges pushing for an increased focus on international education -- to the "supply" of available programs and finds that responding institutions in Europe and elsewhere overwhelmingly seek to attract American students, along with those from other major "sending" countries.

During annual gathering of international educators, panelists discuss the underrepresentation of minorities in education abroad, among other topics.

Other hot topics at international ed meeting: visa frustration, study abroad for all majors, and internationalization issues.