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Guest Blogger Morgan Abate, a graduating senior, reflects on how her international experiences on campus at Elon University and abroad offered her a tremendous opportunity to grow personally and prepare for her next step: a career in communications.

The Institute for International Education partners with the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs and the U.S. Department of State to publish the annual Open Doors 2020 report showing the increasing internationalization of higher education–but for the 2019-2020 academic year, pre-pandemic.

Succeeding at a U.S. college or university can be difficult if you don’t understand the system and educational culture. I’ve team up with IIE again to help international students: “Preparing to Study in the USA”.

Guest blogger Betty Berdan shares the value to understanding another culture by trying to see a person, an event, history and a culture from another perspective.

Global education doesn’t have to be something formal or solely academic. We can learn about each other on a human level through sharing of culture, especially foods.

Looking for summer camp options with a twist? Something unlike any other program, yet fun for kids aged 7-18? Tucked away in the northern woods of Minnesota is one of the best-kept secrets in language learning in the U.S.: Concordia Language Villages.

I am blown away by the recent news that has gotten little coverage: U.S. employers say they need and want MORE employees who speak another language in addition to English…yet colleges are eliminating their foreign language programs.

A short tour of Central America -- Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Panama -- was a great opportunity to teach our girls how to travel with the added bonus of daily Spanish language use.