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A Whole New World: Understanding The International Student Experience In The United States Through Acculturation, Identity, And Support, Maria W. Nessim

M.A. in Higher Education Leadership: Action Research Projects

This study explores the feelings and opportunities that international students experience while they are studying abroad. Specifically, it investigates acculturation and adaptation to the host country, the students’ cultural identity and sense of belonging, as well as implications for support provided by the host institution.

In order to evaluate these components, an online survey, compiled of 24 open-ended and multiple-choice questions, was distributed to international students at the University of San Diego, asking them to describe their experiences and any indications of challenge and support from the institution in relation to their sense of belonging. The outcomes of this research …

Using Virtual Exchange To Advance Media Literacy Competencies Through Analysis Of Contemporary Propaganda, Renee Hobbs, Christian Seyferth-Zapf, Silke Grafe

Journal of Media Literacy Education

With the rise of so-called fake news as a global phenomenon, interest in propaganda analysis has advanced along with the recognition of the fundamentally social process of interpretation. In this essay, we explore the use of cross-national dialogue among German and American undergraduate students who are seeking to better understand how media messages are interpreted and how they inform and guide the civic actions of citizens. We describe and analyze five lessons that used a virtual exchange using a variety of digital media platforms, texts and technologies to support the cross-national study of contemporary propaganda. We observed that cross-national dialogue …

Reflections On The Conduct Of Research With Human Subjects Across Two Cultures, Kimberly Maas

Journal of Undergraduate Research at Minnesota State University, Mankato

This study examined the potential benefits, challenges, and barriers faced by university students and research colleagues who were involved in international partnerships for cross-cultural research projects between the USA and Russia. In scholarly investigations in the USA, research subjects must be informed of the precautions that will be taken to protect their safety and their privacy (Amdur & Bankfert, 2002). Particularly in Russia, there are no corresponding policies for working with human subjects that compare to the procedures followed by American university Institutional Review Boards. Furthermore, international partnerships have faced new challenges as a result of the restructuring of American …

African Agenda, April & May 1977, African American Solidarity Committee

African Agenda

The Vol 6, No 2 issue of the African Agenda newsletter was published by the African American Solidarity Committee. Articles: American Steel Workers Against Apartheid, Sorry for the Inconvenience, Problems of the Ethiopian Revolution, President Mengistu Haile Mariam, Castro's African Tour a Success, A People's Democracy in Mozambique, A Special Book Offer Moses Kotane. 8 pages.

African Agenda, December & January 1977, African American Solidarity Committee

African Agenda

The Vol 6, No 1 issue of the African Agenda newsletter was published by the African American Solidarity Committee. Articles: A New Stage In Southern Africa, Main Lines of South African Propaganda, Andy and Africa, U.N. Assembly in Review, South African and Israel Forge A Sinister Alliance, South African: The Pipes Of Peace Or The Drums Of War?. 8 pages

African Agenda, September & October 1976, African American Solidarity Committee

African Agenda

The Vol 5, No 5 issue of the African Agenda newsletter was published by the African American Solidarity Committee. Articles: Super K Rides Again, People's War in Zimbabwe, Afro-American and Southern Africa, Coalition of Black Trade Unionists Position on Southern Africa. 8 pages.

African Agenda, June & July, 1976, African American Solidarity Committee

African Agenda

The Vol 5, No 4 issue of the African Agenda newsletter was published by the African American Solidarity Committee. Articles: The African Boycott of the Olympics: interview with Dennis Brutus, Apartheid "Legalized" Colonialism, Events in South Africa, The ANC Struggle Against South African Agents, South Africa's Dilemma, News Briefs, Recommended Books. 8 pages.

African Agenda, April & May, 1976, African American Solidarity Committee

African Agenda

The Vol 5, No 3 issue of the African Agenda newsletter was published by the African American Solidarity Committee. Articles: A Supreme Effort For Southern Africa, A Revolutionary Message From South African by Secretary-General Alfred Nzo, Rev. Chavis Prison Hunger Strike, The Recent Maneuvers In The Unholy Alliance, Between The RSA And The U.S. Imperialists, Recommended Books. 8 pages.

African Agenda, December & January 1976, African American Solidarity Committee

African Agenda

The Vol 5, No 1 issue of the African Agenda newsletter was published by the African American Solidarity Committee. Articles: Angola-The Struggle Against U.S. Imperialism, Angola- A Test For Africa, President Neto On The OAU, Soviet Union And Portugual -January 1976, 43 Countries Recognize The People's Republic of Angola, The U.S. And Its Stooges, The MPLA- A History Of Struggle, Gary-City of Liberation, Unnamed Fighters For The UN Charter, Today South Africa in Angola-Tomorrow Angola In South Africa, The Maoists Splitting Activity In Angola, Constitutional Law Of The People's Republic Of Angola, The Monopolies And Angloa, Recommended Books. 16 pages.

African Agenda, October & November 1975, African American Solidarity Committee

African Agenda

The Vol 4, No 6 issue of the African Agenda newsletter was published by the African American Solidarity Committee. Articles: Women In The Anti-Imperialist Movement, Enemies of Angola Revealed, Message from Fidel Castro, Prime Minister of Cuba, "Part of the Global Struggle- Women's Equality", Message from Nguyen Huu Tho of the Provincioal Revolutionary Government of the Republic of South Vietnam, "Firm Links of Militant Solidarity", The African Women's Movement by Jaalie Major General Mohamet Siyad Barre, A Revolution Within The Revolution, "The Emancipation of Women Means Rid the System from Exploitation and Oppression" from Ahmed Sekou Toure, President of the …

African Agenda, August & September 1975, African American Solidarity Committee

African Agenda

The Vol 4, No 5 issue of the African Agenda newsletter was published by the African American Solidarity Committee. Articles: South African Pretoria Racist Regime Is Not An Independent African State!, Expel South Africa from the U.N., Chili's Experience And Problems of the Class Struggle, Namibia: Update, Fanning The Flames Of Racism, The Task of Natinal Reconstruction In Mozambique, Recommended Books. 8 pages.

African Agenda, June & July 1975, African American Solidarity Committee

African Agenda

The Vol 4, No 4 issue of the African Agenda newsletter was published by the African American Solidarity Committee. Articles: Women's Liberation Is Essential For The Revolution, International Women's Year 1975, Chili's Experience And Problems Of The Class Struggle Part II, Scientific Socialism in Africa by Marien Ngouabi, President of the People's Republic of the Congo, Africa's Choice, One Million Voices Petition, After 477 Years Of Struggle: Mozambique, Recommended Books. 8 pages.

African Agenda, April & May 1975, African American Solidarity Committee

African Agenda

The Vol 4, No 3 issue of the African Agenda newsletter was published by the African American Solidarity Committee. Articles: U.S. Intervention In Chili, History of the Popular Front Movement in Chili,Revolution and Counter Revolution: Chili's Experience and Problems Of The Class Struggle, Free Rev. Ben Chavis and The Wilmington 10!, To The Party And The People Of Chili, A Victory For World Peace in Vietnam and Cambodia, Recommended Books. 8 pages.

African Agenda, February & March 1975, African American Solidarity Committee

African Agenda

The Vol 4, No 2 issue of the African Agenda newsletter was published by the African American Solidarity Committee. Articles: New Stages in the African Liberation Movement, Three Years of Struggle, Letters to the Editor, No Compromise With White Supremacy!, Fremilo's Answer To Black Power, No Justice For Namibia, One Millions Voices To Expel South African From The UN, Petition to the UN to Expel South Africa, Recommended Books. 8 pages.

African Agenda, December & January 1975, African American Solidarity Committee

African Agenda

The Vol 4, No 1 issue of the African Agenda newsletter was published by the African American Solidarity Committee. Articles: Highlights of 1974 - Direction For 1975, The Real Causes Of The Food Crisis Today, Another Vietnam in Southern Africa?, Growing Attacks On The United Nations, "We Live In A Time Of Glorious Change", Mdme. Nguyen Thi Bish and Amilcar Cabral, Recommended Books. 8 pages.

African Agenda, October & November 1974, African American Solidarity Committee

African Agenda

The Vol 3, No 6 issue of the African Agenda newsletter was published by the African American Solidarity Committee. Articles: Seven Months of Freedom in Portugual, Inflation is Kicking Our Ass, The Real Voice of South Africa- interview with Duma Nokwe, Ethiopia in Transition, Imagine Vorster Wearing An Afro, Frelimo's Answer To Black Power. 8 pages.

African Agenda, August & September 1974, African American Solidarity Committee

African Agenda

The Vol 3, No 5 issue of the African Agenda newsletter was published by the African American Solidarity Committee. Articles: Puerto Rico Is Our Fight Too, Puerto Rican Solidarity Day, Historical Outline Of Puerto Rico, Puerto Rico: Special Colony of the U.S., The Time For Liberation: interview with Juan Mari Bras, Puerto Rican Labor In The U.S., U.S. Colonialism Exposed at the U.N. 8 pages.

African Agenda, June & July 1974, African American Solidarity Committee

African Agenda

The Vol 3, No 4 issue of the African Agenda newsletter was published by the African American Solidarity Committee. Articles: From Dar-es-Salaam To Raleigh, NC, Let My People Go, Unity-The Key Against Racist And Political Repression, A Call For Solidarity With Puerto Rico, Anti-Imperialism And The Sixth Pan-African Congress, U.S. Miners Against Apartheid, Mama King by Rev. Ben Chavis, African Agenda And The Mailing System, Recommended Books. 8 pages.

African Agenda, April & May 1974, African American Solidarity Committee

African Agenda

The Vol 3, No 3 issue of the African Agenda newsletter was published by the African American Solidarity Committee. Articles: Events in Portugual and Southern Africa, Technological Colonialism, For Independence Socialism and Unity, The Ship by Pablo Neruda, Kenya: The Development of A Neo-Colony, Who Is The Enemy And What Is The Enemy? What Is Our Objective?, MPLA, Agostinho Neto. 8 pages.

African Agenda, February & March, 1974, African American Solidarity Committee

African Agenda

The Vol 3, No 2 issue of the African Agenda newsletter was published by the African American Solidarity Committee. Articles: Dedicated to Women In Struggle, South African Women In The Fight Against Apartheid, A Talk With Sylvia Woods, Afro-American Women, Two Years of Struggle, 1975-International Women's Year, The Republic of Guinea-Bissau and Our Responsibility, The 1973 All-African Women's Conference, Vietnamese Women An Inspiration To All, Recommended Books. 9 pages.

African Agenda, December & January, 1974, African American Solidarity Committee

African Agenda

The Vol 3, No 1 issue of the African Agenda newsletter was published by the African American Solidarity Committee. Articles: Africa's Principled Stand, Aspects of Independent in the Republic of Guinea-Bissau, And Interview with FRELIMO, Special Role of Labor in an Antii-Imperialist Front Workshop, News Briefs, Zionism, Isreal and the Republic of South Africa, In Memorial Amilcar Cabral, Recommended Books. 8 pages.

African Agenda, October And November 1973, African American Solidarity Committee

African Agenda

The Vol 2, No 10 & 11 issues of the African Agenda newsletter was published by the African American Solidarity Committee. Articles: Special Issue, National Anti-Imperialist Conference In Solidarity With African Liberation, Afro-Americans and The African Liberation Struggle, Workshop Summary and Resolutions, U.S. Economic, Political, and Military Policy Toward Africa, Oil Palestine and The Middle East, Roads of Development of Independent African Countries, News Briefs, African Liberation Movements, Recommended Books. 8 pages.

African Agenda, September 1973, African American Solidarity Committee

African Agenda

The Vol 2, No 9 issue of the African Agenda newsletter was published by the African American Solidarity Committee. Articles: Afro-Americans in Anti-Imperialist Solidarity with Africa, Growing Role of Workers in African Liberation Movements, Letter of Protest to Kurt Waldheim, Secretary General, United Nations, Which African Liberation Movements? Update of the National Conference Developments, Recommended Reading for the Conference. 4 pages.

African Agenda, July & August 1973, African American Solidarity Committee

African Agenda

The Vol 2, No 7 & 8 issue of the African Agenda newsletter was published by the African American Solidarity Committee. Articles: Special Issue Devoted To Black America, Solidarity!, Racism In The U.S. Historical Views 1776-1910, Triple Threat Against Black Workers, New Stage in the Afro-American Liberation Movement, News Briefs, I Have Seen by Antar Sudan Katara Mberi, National Anti-Imperialist Conference in Solidarity WIth African Liberation, Oppression Against Black Women, Recommended Books. 8 pages.

African Agenda, June 1973, African American Solidarity Committee

African Agenda

The Vol 2, No 6 issue of the African Agenda newsletter was published by the African American Solidarity Committee. Articles: National Movement In Solidarity With Africa, A Call To Action, The Auction of Sister Africa by Antar Sudan Katara Mberi, The Plot Against Amilcar Cabral, Difference In The African National Revolution, Recommended Books. 4 pages.

African Agenda, May 1973, African American Solidarity Committee

African Agenda

The Vol 2, No 5 issue of the African Agenda newsletter was published by the African American Solidarity Committee. Articles: Special Issue Devoted to African Liberation Day, African Liberation Day! Our Responsibility, Coalition of Black Trade Unionists and African Workers, The Anti-Imperialist Front and Black Workers, Racial and Political Repression in the U.S., Strategy for a Black Agenda, Recommended Books. 4 pages.

African Agenda, April 1973, African American Solidarity Committee

African Agenda

The Vol 2, No 4 issue of the African Agenda newsletter was published by the African American Solidarity Committee. Articles: Editorial, Israel's African Fiasco, Creation of a Zionist State, Letter to the Editor, News Briefs, The Fuel Crisis and The Middle East, Recommended Books. 4 pages.

African Agenda, March 1973, African American Solidarity Committee

African Agenda

The Vol 2, No 3 issue of the African Agenda newsletter was published by the African American Solidarity Committee. Articles: Special Issue Devoted to Amilcar Cabral, Friends and Allies, Amilcar Cabral's Class Approach To National Liberation, PAIGC, The African Party for the Independence of Guinea and the Cape Verde Islands, News Briefs, The Role of Culture In The National Liberation Struggle, Recommended Books. 4 pages.

African Agenda, February 1973, African American Solidarity Committee

African Agenda

The Vol 2, No 2 issue of the African Agenda newsletter was published by the African American Solidarity Committee. Articles: Special Issue Devoted to W.E.B. Du Bois, W.E.B. Dubois A Great Revolutionary Democrat, DuBois and Pan-Africanism, Why Dr. DuBois Joined the Communist Party, U.S.A., News Briefs, Last Message of Dr. DuBois To The World, Encyclopedia Africana: DuBois' Last Project, Recommended Books. 4 pages.

African Agenda, January 1973, African American Solidarity Committee

African Agenda

The Vol 2, No 1 issue of the African Agenda newsletter was published by the African American Solidarity Committee. Articles: Vietnam: A Racist War, Class and Race, The National Question and African Liberation, Letter to the Editor, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr A Great Man Of Our Time, News Briefs, U.S. Supports Racism in the U.N., Recommended Books. 5 pages.