Academic & Social Success
- African American students who have participated in study abroad have attained higher education degrees at a rate 36% higher than African American undergraduates who have not studied abroad (Bruce et al., 2012).
- Researchers have shown African American students who study abroad graduate at a rate 31% higher than African American students who do not study abroad (Rhodes et al., 2012).
- Study abroad offers development of universal, intrinsic values, shared by participating faculty and students who describe their experiences learning about a new culture as extraordinary or “life altering” (Institute of International Education [IIE], 2016).
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“The paradox of education is precisely this – that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated,” (Baldwin, 1963).
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