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Reflections on the APSA Report on Graduate Education: International Students and Their Teacher Training

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 April 2006

Masako Rachel Okura
Affiliation:
University of Connecticut

Extract

The January 2005 issue of PS: Political Science and Politics carried a report compiled by the APSA Task Force on Graduate Education which provides numerous suggestions to political science programs nationwide on preparing graduate students for professional careers, improving mentoring and advising, and revising financial package/plans to support ABDs in their final stretch (Beltran et al. 2005). Among those proposals was a section specifically designed to address unique problems international students, international graduate assistants (IGA), and international graduate student instructors (IGSI) face at U.S. institutions:

Type
THE PROFESSION
Copyright
© 2006 The American Political Science Association

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