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International Students' Perceptions Of Challenges At Universities In The United States, Yiran Li
International Students' Perceptions Of Challenges At Universities In The United States, Yiran Li
Lesley University Community of Scholars Day
The project supported by professor Summer Clark, Lesley University.
International students in the U.S. face many challenges. They face a variety of hurdles, including navigating and processing what are often drastic differences in language, culture, educational systems, and lifestyle. Existing surveys, and ethnographic research, and case studies (Hopnick, 2102; Li, et al, 2017; Serino, 2017; Suarez-Orozco, et al., 2008) unpack the variety of ways students from different countries navigate such changes. My project, a pilot study conducted in 2017, contributes to this body of work. I present the results of in-depth, qualitative interviews of two international students’ from Korea and …