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Importing Grade Inflation? – Credential Evaluation Economics

October 04, 2012 Are you helping import grade inflation from abroad? Many colleges, universities and licensing boards in the U.S. unknowingly encourage artificial inflation of international students’ grades by accepting questionable credential evaluations. This is a troubling issue to many

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5 Things to Know about U.S. Community Colleges

September 13, 2012 Many individuals and groups overseas seem to have a distorted view of U.S. community colleges thinking that their academic programs are inferior to those offered by four-year colleges and universities. In fact, even our visa officers at

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5 Reasons Why International Credential Evaluation is Necessary:

August 10, 2012 Whether you represent a school, college, university, professional licensing board, employer, or any other entity engaged in the recruitment, placement, certification or the hiring of internationally-trained candidates, you know that educational systems and academic documents vary greatly

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Living in Rennes

July 19, 2012 I arrived in Rennes, the capital of Brittany, as an exchange student in September 1975. I was a 19 year old sophomore, who, along with 29 American students from my college, would be living with French families

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Geography: Do you know where you are?

July 12, 2012 Geography: from Greek “geographia,” lit. “to describe or write about the Earth.” It happened sometime during my junior year at college in San Diego. I was studying at the library for a midterm when a handsome boy

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The Preferred Path

June 7th 2012 “Sometimes a pattern chosen by default can become a path of preference.” -Mary Catherine Bateson, from Composing a Life My first clay elephant made in kindergarten I recently found an old manila envelope in which my mother

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DREAMS OF A COMMON LANGUAGE

May 31th 2012 The West African women are warm and welcoming. I am here to observe their conversational English group, which I will be helping to lead a few weeks from now in July and August, as a literacy volunteer

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