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Immigrants from different countries have settled in America. For many, America becomes the final or training ground for professional careers, and for others, a refuge from a turbulent homeland. Neighborhoods are increasingly culturally diverse as the popularity of pizza, halal, and kosher food, Chinese takeout, Middle Eastern kebabs, Spanish plantains, Caribbean curry goat, and African fufu in urban centers demonstrate. Foderaro notes the growing number of foreign-born college presidents like Molly Easo Smith of Manhattanville College (Indian), Michael A. McRobbie of Indiana University (Australian), and Nariman Farvardian of the Stevens Institute of Technology (Iranian), including Jamshed Bharucha, president of Cooper Union (Indian) and A. Gabriel Esteban at Seton Hall University (Filipino), to highlight their presence at the higher echelons of academia. She estimates the number of international scholars—researchers, instructors, and professors—at 115, 000 in 2010, an increase from 86,000 in 2001. Allan E. Goodman of the Institute of International Education admits to feeling in the minority at a Washington gathering to honor “about 40 scholarship recipients—undergraduates at the nation’s strongest institutions in math and science. They were from India, Asia, the Middle East, North Africa.” Dr. Farvardian’s remark reflects the inevitability of cross-cultural exchanges: “If you haven’t given students the exposure and appropriate experience in how to deal with the global economy, you’ve done them a disservice.”1
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Florence, N. (2011). A Matter of Habit: Unraveling the Teaching/Learning Knot. In: Okome, M.O., Vaughan, O. (eds) Transnational Africa and Globalization. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137011961_10
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