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International Students' Perceptions Of Challenges At Universities In The United States, Yiran Li Mar 2018

International Students' Perceptions Of Challenges At Universities In The United States, Yiran Li

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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 …