May 29, 2009

Study-Abroad Officials Consider New Approaches for Tough Times

By Karin Fischer

Los Angeles

American colleges should use the current financial crisis as an opportunity to develop more creative and cost-effective approaches to education abroad and to the recruitment of foreign students.

That was the message delivered Thursday during the annual meeting here of Nafsa: Association of International Educators.

"When you're fat and sassy, why waste your time on change?" asked John K. Hudzik, vice president for global engagement at Michigan State University and

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