Beyond China: US colleges look afield for foreign students

Published November 14, 2016 This content is archived.

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An Associated Press article about U.S. colleges that are expanding their recruiting efforts in the Middle East, South Asia and Latin America as the surge of students from China begins to level off quotes Stephen Dunnett, vice provost for international education, who said many colleges worry they depend too heavily on revenue from Chinese students. “They would be severely hurt if there was a contraction,” he said. “There’s no Plan B. There’s no other country that would send students in those numbers.” The article appeared in hundreds of news outlets around the world, including the New Zealand Herald, Yahoo News in the U.S., Canada, India and Singapore, England’s Daily Mail, San Francisco Chronicle, WTOP in Washington, D.C., Miami Herald, ABC News, Kansas City Star, Houston Chronicle and St. Louis Post-Dispatch.

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http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_COLLEGES_CHINA_DECLINE?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2016-11-14-00-26-54

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=11747882

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/ap/article-3933350/US-colleges-look-outside-China-new-foreign-students.html

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/us-colleges-look-outside-china-foreign-students-052302383.html

http://www.sfchronicle.com/news/education/article/US-colleges-look-outside-China-for-new-foreign-10612244.php

http://wtop.com/education/2016/11/us-colleges-look-outside-china-for-new-foreign-students/

http://www.miamiherald.com/news/business/article114596698.html

http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/us-colleges-china-foreign-students-43516396

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