Author: Mark A. Ashwill

Bigger Isn’t Always Better: The Jerry Maguire Approach to US Higher Ed Fairs

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I remember my last US higher education fair with IIE-Vietnam.  (Note:  I served as country director from 2005-09.)  There were a record 92 participating institutions in Ho Chi Minh City (HCMC).  Every square inch of the ballroom and the lobby was packed with tables, reps and attendees.  By all accounts, including number of institutions represented, … Continue reading Bigger Isn’t Always Better: The Jerry Maguire Approach to US Higher Ed Fairs

Oops!… They Did It Again

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Last year around this time, I wrote about Jose Maria Vargas University (JMVU), a nationally accredited (NA) school based in Florida, which was permitted to join the Institute of International Education's (IIE) US higher education fairs in Vietnam.  This in spite of the fact IIE guidelines state that “Only regionally accredited (RA) two-year, four-year and … Continue reading Oops!… They Did It Again

“Corruption in Education Creates Serious Consequences for the Poor”

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This the title is a wide-ranging interview that I did last month with a reporter from Báo Giáo dục Việt Nam (Vietnam Education News).  This education news website ranks 8,829 in the world, 51 in Vietnam and is linked in 2,093 websites (as of 20.10.12).  As you can see from some original English language excerpts below, corruption … Continue reading “Corruption in Education Creates Serious Consequences for the Poor”

More Studying Overseas; US Continues to Lose International Student Market Share

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According to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development’s annual Education at a Glance report,there were 4.12 million students enrolled in a higher education program outside of their country of citizenship in 2010.  (The information was collected from 34 OECD member countries, in addition to other non-member G-20 countries: Brazil, China, India, Indonesia, Russia, Saudi … Continue reading More Studying Overseas; US Continues to Lose International Student Market Share

Determining Financial Need: Lessons from Vietnam (Part II)

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Here's the follow-up post in which I describe how to screen those who actually deserve the merit- and need-based scholarships awarded by many US colleges and universities.  By way of introduction, back in the mid-1990s, a book entitled Material World was published by Sierra Club Books in honor of the United Nations-sponsored International Year of the Family … Continue reading Determining Financial Need: Lessons from Vietnam (Part II)

Determining Financial Need: Lessons from Vietnam

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Many US colleges and universities, especially those with healthy endowments (i.e., highly selective liberal arts colleges but also some visionary state universities that are able to offer scholarships to international students, including by charging in-state tuition), award millions of dollars worth of merit- and need-based scholarships every year to international students.  They do this for the … Continue reading Determining Financial Need: Lessons from Vietnam

Lane Community College Joins Capstone’s HCMC International Academic Center

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Lane Community College (LCC) , a comprehensive community college located in Eugene, Oregon, is the first US community college to join Capstone Vietnam’s International Academic Center (IAC) in Ho Chi Minh City (HCMC).  The IAC is a shared facility that serves as a home base from which U.S. and other foreign institutions of higher education can promote their … Continue reading Lane Community College Joins Capstone’s HCMC International Academic Center

StudyUSA Fall Fairs in Vietnam: Video Promos

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As we welcome autumn back to  Hanoi - the temperature dipped to 22C/71.6F last night -  fair season is upon us.  Below are two promotional videos for the upcoming StudyUSA Higher Education Fairs in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City (HCMC) and the StudyUSA Community College Fairs in Haiphong, Hanoi, Danang and HCMC.  (Both fair series are organized by Capstone Vietnam, … Continue reading StudyUSA Fall Fairs in Vietnam: Video Promos

Welcome to My Neighborhood (aka Letting in the Fresh Air and the Flies)

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In my bustling neighborhood in the Cau Giay District of Hanoi, I can see over a billion dollars of local investment and foreign direct investment (FDI) from my front door, so to speak, where new condos, office buildings, and hotels are sprouting up like mushrooms.  A field that just a few years ago was a hot spot for … Continue reading Welcome to My Neighborhood (aka Letting in the Fresh Air and the Flies)