International Students Are Returning to Japan, Survey Shows

July 15, 2011, 1:21 pm

Foreign students who fled Japan after it was rocked by natural disasters and a nuclear crisis in the spring appear to be returning to the country, reports The Japan Times. A recent ministry of education survey shows that 96 percent of the overseas students at 135 educational institutions have returned. The government helped smooth their way by simplifying the application process for re-entry permits, offering to pay airfare for students on government scholarships, and providing emergency funds to 1,000 foreign students at universities in the disaster area.

Despite the survey results, the newspaper notes that Japanese-language schools are experiencing a sharp decline in the number of applications for the fall.

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British Professor Lindsay Hawker was raped and bludgeoned to death in Japan by her English language student. She will not be returning.

My condolences to her family and friends.
goxewu

* “Increasing racial and ethnic diversity on HBCU campuses is somewhat controversial among HBCU leaders and alumni but to bolster enrollment it is necessary.”

There’s the nut of the whole problem: How are you going to get political support and public funding in the 21st century for a bunch of colleges with an ongoing controversy about whether they should stay de facto segregated (with maybe a token sprinkling of Latino and Asian students and the very occasional white one)?

And why does Chancellor Nelms want HBCU’s “reaching out to the growing Latino and Asian populations of college students” to the apparent exclusion of white students? What’s he going to do if a bunch them show up anyway, stand in the schoolhouse door?

The first thing that HBCU’s should do to beef themselves up into more reputable colleges (I mean, there is a problem, isn’t there? If not, why the “call to action”?) is to just be colleges, period. That would entail a more complicated acronym–instead of HBCU’s for “Historically Black Colleges and Universities,” it’d have to be something like FVSCU’s, for Formerly Voluntarily Segregated Colleges and Universities.
jffoster

I join goxewu above and add the general observation that the long list of things proposed to be done in the Call to Action suggests that the simpler and lest costly action that ought be considered is the closing of most Holdover Black Colleges and Universities or the merging of them with each other and / or with stronger colleges and universities.