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Asian-American Population & Details

WHICH COUNTRY OF ORIGIN HAS THE HIGHEST POPULATION?   WHICH ASIAN-AMERICAN GROUP HAS THE MOST COLLEGE EDUCATION? WHICH ARE THE TOP 5 COUNTRIES OF ORIGIN FOR ASIAN-AMERICANS? SEE FIRST CHART WHAT IS THE POLITICAL AFFILIATION OF MOST ASIAN-AMERICANS? Source for all data: http://www.pewsocialtrends.org/asianamericans

BusinessWeek: International Students Struggle to Turn MBAs Into U.S. Jobs

By Julian Sparks July 24, 2014 Students from abroad who study at U.S. business schools often struggle when it’s time to land a job. Increasingly, B-schools set aside resources to help this group overcome a pair of career obstacles: the difficulty of getting legal permission to work in the U.S. and cultural differences that can make navigating …

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Businessweek: Why American B-School Students Can't Stand Teamwork

By Cory Weinberg  June 06, 2014  (Corrects spelling of Darden faculty member’s name in fifth and sixth paragraphs.) When business students are instructed to comb through case studies or pitch new product designs, three dreaded words often follow: “Work in teams.” That dread is especially deep for American MBA students, according to a Graduate Management Admission Council …

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NPR: Struggle For Smarts? How Eastern And Western Cultures Tackle Learning

by ALIX SPIEGEL November 12, 2012  In 1979, when Jim Stigler was still a graduate student at the University of Michigan, he went to Japan to research teaching methods and found himself sitting in the back row of a crowded fourth-grade math class. “The teacher was trying to teach the class how to draw three-dimensional cubes …

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The Chronicle of Higher Education: Retention Is a Growing Issue as More International Students Come to US

By Karin Fischer  MAY 28, 2014  Matt Dilyard, College of WoosterAn international student at the College of Wooster presents his independent-study project to fellow students. The Ohio college will begin offering a course this fall to new international students to help them adjust academically and culturally to American higher education. San Diego Like many American …

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Psychology Today: "I am (not) Good Enough: Three Ways to Battle This Feeling"

Simply writing this title has decreased my confidence significantly. Yet now that I realize why I feel self-doubt, I can move forward and write this post. How incredible it is that in a split second, we can shift our mindset from negative to positive. Curiously, we rarely use this powerful ability because it’s easier to …

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