January 2nd, 2015 We hope your holidays were happy and fun and you’re ready to take on the New Year. The start of the New Year is when many of us make resolutions in hopes of getting rid of bad
December 18th, 2014 The 1979 Iranian Revolution caused an exodus of its people who left the country in search of safer havens. You can say that the Iranian Revolution helped globalize Iranians by creating a large diaspora scattered throughout different
December 11th, 2015 Are you thinking of getting a college education? Do you believe that a college education will help you excel in the job market? Do you want to graduate debt free? Do you want to get a diploma
December 5th, 2014 I arrived in Miami this past Tuesday with Yolinisse Moreno, our Assistant Director of Marketing, for our first AIRC (American International Recruitment Council) Conference on a blustery night and rush hour traffic that made Los Angeles congested
November 27th, 2014 Dear Friends of ACEI, As we near Thanksgiving, we wanted to take time and reflect on the year and thank you for your continued support and confidence in ACEI. 2014 has been a significant year for ACEI
November 20th, 2014 “The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.” George Orwell There is an epidemic and it is sweeping across continents, again. I’m not speaking of an infectious
November 13th, 2014 Tinariwen’s Emmaar (2014) Tinariwen, The Harpoonist and the Axe Murderer sounds like a gruesome scene from the Kel Tamashek uprising of 1963 in northern Mali that saw the death of messianic Tinarwen frontman Ibrahim Ag Alhabib’s parents
November 10th, 2014 There’s nothing more challenging to me than waking to the sound of an alarm at 4:30 AM to catch a 6:40 AM flight. At least the flight from LAX to Portland, OR was short and except for
October 30th, 2014 Since its Halloween, we thought of scaring up some spooky facts about education in the U.S. 1. Thirty years ago, America was the leader in quantity and quality of high school diplomas. Today, it is ranked 18th
October 23rd, 2014 One day in middle school yoga class, something profound happened. During roll call, I noticed a sixth grade student, new to the school, not occupying his yoga mat. Instead, he was hunched down on the floor between
October 16th, 2014 In India, the bachelor’s degree in arts and sciences has been typically a three-year program patterned after the British system. Here in the U.S. a few international credential evaluation professionals have been recognizing the three-year bachelor’s degree
October 9th, 2014 German Chancellor Angela Merkel with German Students Photo credit: AP/Michael Probst Germany recently announced tuition free higher education across the country for its citizens and international students attending state/public institutions. This news has stirred many here in
