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Intercultural Ambassadors: Foreign Students’ Conflict And Expectations Revisited, Luz Elena Cortes
Intercultural Ambassadors: Foreign Students’ Conflict And Expectations Revisited, Luz Elena Cortes
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The recent increase of foreign students in higher education conflicts with resource budgeting and priorities. Universities are compelled to implement diverse strategies to keep them solvent. Interestingly, one of the responses to increase revenues is to recruit out-of-state students especially international students for higher tuition returns additionally, universities posit internationalization as a necessary component to becoming a “metropolitan research university of distinction” (Task Force 2006, 1). The goal is to elevate its standing in the global market of higher education. However, these efforts compromise the education of foreign students and how thesestudents are taught. By recruiting foreign students, universities transfer …