tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-320897562011-07-24T23:22:33.926-07:00drmuninoreply@blogger.comBlogger21100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32089756.post-1155408130124821652006-08-12T11:38:00.000-07:002006-08-12T11:59:02.296-07:00<h1 style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">US Schools struggle to combat foreign student drop<span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"></span></span></h1><h1 style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">Educators encourage active recruitment, hope numbers will climb back up</span></span></h1><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tbody><tr><td style="padding: 25px 0pt 0pt 15px;" valign="bottom" width="1%"><a id="linkImgRelatedPhotos"><img src="http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/j/msnbc/Components/Photos/060804/060804_students_hmed_6p.hmedium.jpg" style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0);" alt="CHINA GRADUATES" border="0" hspace="0" vspace="0" /></a></td><td valign="bottom" width="99%"><div class="caption" style="padding: 25px 10px 0pt 15px;">Students take a picture in front of the statue of late Chinese leader Mao Zedong after the graduation ceremony at Fudan University in Shanghai earlier this year. China's universities have stepped up recruitment of international students.</div><div class="" id="viewRelatedPhotosLink" style="padding: 0pt 10px 0pt 15px; display: none;"><a id="linkRelatedPhotos" href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14192610/displaymode/1176/rstry/14034413/"><img src="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/images/icons/slideshow.gif" style="margin-bottom: -2px;" border="0" height="14" vspace="0" width="20" /></a> <a href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14192610/displaymode/1176/rstry/14034413/" class="textMedBlackBold">View related photos</a></div><script>var hasRelatedPhotos = 'false';if (hasRelatedPhotos=='true'){var vRPL = document.getElementById("viewRelatedPhotosLink");if (vRPL!=undefined) vRPL.style.display = "";var vLRPG = document.getElementById("linkRelatedPhotos");var vLIRPG = document.getElementById("linkImgRelatedPhotos");if (vLRPG) {if(vLIRPG) vLIRPG.href=vLRPG.href;}}</script></td></tr><tr><td><div class="credit aR">Aly Song / Reuters file</div></td><td><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span>http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14034413<br /><div><div class="textMedBlackBold">By Sakina Sadat Hussain</div><div class="textMedBlack">Reporter</div><div class="textMedBlack">MSNBC</div><div class="textTimestamp"><div id="udtD">Updated: 12:26 a.m. ET Aug 8, 2006</div><script language="javascript"> function UpdateTimeStamp(pdt) { var n = document.getElementById("udtD"); if(pdt != '' && n && window.DateTime) { var dt = new DateTime(); pdt = dt.T2D(pdt); if(dt.GetTZ(pdt)) {n.innerHTML = dt.D2S(pdt,((''.toLowerCase()=='false')?false:true));} } } UpdateTimeStamp('632906512147370000'); </script></div></div><p class="textBodyBlack"><span id="byLine"></span>Five years after the terrorist attacks of 9/11, U.S. colleges and universities are fighting to reverse what some consider an alarming decline in foreign student enrollment.</p><p class="textBodyBlack"><span id="byLine"></span>Despite a tightening of visa regulations in the months immediately following the attacks, foreign student enrollment actually increased in 2001, in part because of students who already had applied or enrolled. But since then numbers have steadily declined.</p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/32089756-115540813012482165?l=postdocworld.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>drmuninoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32089756.post-1154556511878432572006-08-02T15:08:00.000-07:002006-08-02T15:08:31.886-07:00<a href="http://muni-postdoc.blogspot.com/">The Postdoc World</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/32089756-115455651187843257?l=postdocworld.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>drmuninoreply@blogger.com0