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As U.S. campuses have dramatically increased their international student populations in recent years, more and more faculty members are encountering a different demographic of student than they are used to – or at least they’re encountering that demographic more frequently. They’re seeing more non-native speakers of English who in many cases are unfamiliar or uncomfortable with American classroom norms: participating in classroom discussions, asking the professor a question, engaging in group work.

American campuses have never been more international.

In 2013-14, colleges in the United States enrolled a record 886,052 foreign students, an increase of 8 percent over the previous year, according to the latest "Open Doors" report from the Institute of International Education.

While the boom in students from abroad is longstanding and well known, dig deeper into the data and you’ll find several trends that have implications for how colleges recruit overseas and create opportunities for American students to study abroad.

El pasado miércoles 19 de noviembre se llevó a cabo, en nuestro campus, la firma del convenio titulado “American Degree Transfer Program” traducido al español como “Transferencia de grado americano” el cual promueve que alumnos americanos y mexicanos inicien sus estudios en la nuestra Casa de Estudios durante dos años y la concluyan dos años más en DePaul University. Este convenio es el primero en su tipo que la Universidad de DePaul firma con una institución educativa mexicana.