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Academic Experiences Of International Students At Eastern Michigan University, Denice Gravenstijn Jan 2019

Academic Experiences Of International Students At Eastern Michigan University, Denice Gravenstijn

Master's Theses and Doctoral Dissertations

International students who move to the United States to study can experience both positive and negative challenges during the process of achieving their educational goals at the higher educational institutions they are enrolled in. This study explored how academic experiences of international students from different racial/or ethnic groups may or may not differ from each other. For this qualitative study, fourteen international graduate students of diverse backgrounds enrolled in the Winter and/or Summer 2018 semesters at Eastern Michigan University (EMU) were interviewed. The results of this study show that there are differences as well as similarities in the academic experiences …