The Huffington Post – Richard Stengel
“Today marks the end of International Education Week 2014, when we celebrate the benefits of educational exchanges and the myriad programs that make studying abroad possible. Over the past 15 years, the number of Americans studying abroad has more than doubled — but the number is still too low. According to the annual Open Doors Report on international and U.S. student mobility, about 300,000 American students studied in foreign countries last year and fewer than 10 percent studied abroad before graduating. Many of those who didn’t said they worried that there would be limits to what they could study and feared they wouldn’t graduate on time, or they were concerned that it would cost too much.”(more)