Class Project Idea- Aditya Srinivas

  This visual shows the number of Internation Students in the US from around 1950 to 2016. It shows a constant increase in the number of students that come from other countries every year. I chose this visual because it really helps explain my topic, on how the number of international students was on a constant rise, but it helps me talk about the impact of COVID-19 and how for one of the first times, rates have gone down for international graduate and undergraduate students.

 Revised Research Question: Is it worth it for students to go abroad for education, especially to places like the US where tuition prices are ever-growing, and what are the expectations they have for them to get in return? Is the impact of COVID-19 going to change these situations as families might not feel safe having their kids go across the world on their own and the financial situation of colleges and universities, and the students who are paying for them going to affect enrollment rates of colleges? Works Cited: Kim, Eunyoung, and Díaz Jeannette. Immigrant Students and Higher Education. Wiley, 2013.  Sali Kutluk, Zerrin. “Why Do Immigrant Students Aim High? Explaining the    Aspiration–Achievement Paradox of Immigrants in Germany.” European Sociological Review, vol. 32, no. 5, 2016, pp. 581–592., doi:10.1093/esr/jcw004.  Chapman E. Italy: a Survey of Italian Education and Guide to the Academic Placement of Italian Students in Educational Institutions in th...

Aditya Srinivas Professor Goeller Research In Discipline:College! 26 February 2021 American Colleges for Foreigners Topic The topic I am going to be writing about is about why foreigners choose to come to the US for their education, whether it is worth the price they are going to have to pay versus what they get in return, and what it is like for them in other countries.  I found evidence from many articles like , Why Do Immigrant Students Aim High? Explaining the Aspiration–Achievement Paradox of Immigrants in Germany , by Zerrin Salikutluk that shows how students from many other countries go to Germany, but their expectations are very high compared to the average student. Their families expect them to work harder than everyone else to get the best scores possible and make most use of the opportunities that they paid a heavy price for. The article also talks about how these students' expectations stem from society and their families, how they get pushed into fields that they might...

 Research Question: Is it worth it for students to go abroad for education, especially to places like the US where tuition prices are ever-growing and what are the expectations they have for them to get in return?  Sources: Kim, Eunyoung, and Díaz Jeannette. Immigrant Students and Higher Education. Wiley, 2013.  Sali Kutluk, Zerrin. “Why Do Immigrant Students Aim High? Explaining the    Aspiration–Achievement Paradox of Immigrants in Germany.” European Sociological Review, vol. 32, no. 5, 2016, pp. 581–592., doi:10.1093/esr/jcw004.  Chapman E. Italy: a Survey of Italian Education and Guide to the Academic Placement of Italian Students in Educational Institutions in the U.S.A., 1962. Placement Recommendations by the Council on Evaluation of Foreign Student Credentials, Meeting March 9-10, 1961. Committee on Foreign Students, American Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers; 1962.

1.)My topic hasn’t changed since the first blog post. I refined my topic by limiting what I am really talking about throughout  2.) Online I found many articles that talked about my topic, especially some newer ones that talked about how COVID-19 and the pandemic have affected the aspect of international students and how less students have been coming for various reasons. Things like wikipedia didn’t have much relating to my topic because of how recent it is and how unreliable wikipedia is sometimes. 3.) I found many sources through searching through the databases. Some of them are newer and would help me, but the older ones are a bit more obsolete because things have changed a lot. 4.)One of the topics that seemed important is why international students choose to come to the US, how it affects them, and of course the pandemic. 5.)One of the scholarly sources that I am using is a book by Yingyi Ma called “Ambitious and Anxious: How Chinese College Students Succeed and Struggle in A...