In her recent Trends & Insights piece, Professor Julie Park explores the role of race in college experiences and poses questions for the education abroad professional.
http://www.nafsa.org/Explore_International_Education/Trends/TI/Trends___Insights/
Park will be the keynote speaker at NAFSA’s upcoming Strategic Retreat for Education Abroad Leaders. That event, “What Makes Education Abroad a High-Impact Practice?,” will take place in Washington, D.C,, August 4-5, 2016. For additional information, please visit http://www.nafsa.org/earetreat16.
Julie J. Park is assistant professor of education at the University of Maryland-College Park. Her research addresses how race, religion, and social class affect diversity and equity in higher education, including the diverse experiences of Asian American college students. She is particularly interested in how macro-level conditions such as institutional demography and structural inequality affect organizational culture and patterns of cross-racial interaction.