International Richness

Gabriel Hawawini ()

Chapter Chapter 6 in The Internationalization of Higher Education and Business Schools, 2016, pp 49-53 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract I define an institution’s international richnessRichness according to the international diversity of the student body and the variety of international faculty it attracts onto its campus. A look at the evidence indicates that the proportion of international studentsStudents and faculty rarely exceeds 20 % for most institutions around the world. I then argue that the proportion of international students in and of itself is a poor indicator of international richness if a single nationality dominates the student body. I explore the phenomenon of cultureCulture international culture dominance and show how it creates ‘assimilation trapsAssimilation trap ,’ that is, a tendency of foreign students to try to assimilate with the culture of the dominant nationality on campus, a phenomenon that greatly reduces the cultural learning these foreign students could have transmitted to the domestic students.

Keywords: International richness; Cultural dominance; Individual assimilation trap; Institutional assimilation trapinstitutional assimilation trap (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1007/978-981-10-1757-5_6

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