Open AccessUS Internationalization Faces the Recession
Author(s) -
Madeleine Green,
Adelaide Ferguson
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
international higher education
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2372-4501
pISSN - 1084-0613
DOI - 10.6017/ihe.2012.66.8595
Subject(s) - internationalization , recession , face (sociological concept) , business , balance (ability) , great recession , political science , economics , labour economics , international trade , sociology , psychology , macroeconomics , social science , neuroscience
U.S. higher education has been hard hit by the recession, and internationalization is no exception. This article focuses on campus responses to budgetary constraints among large public institutions, including staff reductions, intensified recruitment of international students, and expectations that senior internationalization officers (SIOs) will balance their budgets through income-generating activities. It also notes the apparent strengthening of the role of the SIO and concludes that commitment to internationalization seems to be holding up in face of hard times.