October 25th, 2019 On October 18, 2019, the Academic Credentials Evaluation Institute (ACEI) had the pleasure of hosting representatives from the Chinese Service Center for Scholarly Exchange (CSCSE) and China Higher Education Student Information and Career Center (CHESICC) and colleagues from the American Education Research Corporation (AERC). The purpose of the meeting was to learn […]
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USA: A Potpourri of Accents, Cultures, Languages, and More
June 21st, 2019 Image credit: Korean-Born Artist Sungho Choi explores the inherent cultural diversity of the United States in this cermaic on wood installation titled “My America.” In this week’s blog we would like to share a few interactive maps produced by The Business Insider that show immigration patterns in the U.S. and a few […]
10 Facts on U.S. Immigration
January 25th, 2019 In November 2018, the Pew Research Center, which regularly publishes statistical portraits of the nation’s foreign-born, released the results of its latest research on U.S. immigration. We would like to share a summary of this research to help answer some key questions about the U.S. immigrant population. The United States has the […]
US Global market share of international students has been dropping since 2001??
December 14th, 2018 The Academic Credentials Evaluation Institute, Inc. (ACEI), was founded in 1994 and is based in Los Angeles, CA, USA. ACEI provides a number of services that include evaluations of international academic credentials for U.S. educational equivalence, translation, verification, and professional training programs. ACEI is a Charter and Endorsed Member of the Association […]
Repair America. Go, vote.
November 2nd, 2018 In 2004-2005, I was working in a bookstore near my college in New Delhi. Every day after classes, I would ride my motorbike and take over the shift at the store until almost midnight. During those shifts, I sold a lot of books and I read a lot of books. I also […]
Give Me Your Poor, Your Tired, Your Huddled Masses…
June 15th, 2018 My heart is very heavy as I write this blog. Doing what I do, keeps me on the front of lines of the immigration crisis. And, even though I’m dealing with those who are here in the U.S. through legal channels, I sense their angst, working under duress to make sure their […]
Where have all the international students gone? Far…far…away? Maybe not.
May 25th, 2018 Every day, those of us who are in international education, especially, those of us working at institutions and organizations in the USA, hear nothing but negative news about the decline in the number of international students studying at our colleges and universities. Many of us anticipated that this was going to happen […]
USCIS Threatens to Destroy H-1B by Redefining “Specialty Occupation”. What Happened to Trump’s “Merit-Based” Hypocrisy?
May 4th, 2018 The following is an expanded version of my initial comment below, including some observations about the larger context of the Trump administration’s assault on the H-1B visa program as part of a concerted attack against other types of skilled and professional immigration, and legal immigration in general. Around the beginning of this […]
What is the Future of International Students in the U.S.?
December 30th, 2017 This time last year, I wrote a blog about the benefits of international students in the U.S. and it goes without saying that the message still holds true as it did then. In another blog we wrote this past August, we offered the reasons why international students are good for the U.S. […]
7 Reasons why International Students are good for the U.S.?
July 27th, 2017 According to the latest analysis from NAFSA, during the 2015-2016 academic year, 1,043,839 international students were studying at U.S. colleges and universities. In January 2017, President Donald Trump issued an executive order temporarily blocking entry to the U.S. by visa holders from seven countries in the Middle East and North Africa and […]