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International Richness

In: The Internationalization of Higher Education and Business Schools

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  • Gabriel Hawawini

    (INSEAD
    INSEAD)

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I define an institution’s international richnessRichness according to the international diversity of the student body and the variety of international faculty it attracts onto its campus. A look at the evidence indicates that the proportion of international studentsStudents and faculty rarely exceeds 20 % for most institutions around the world. I then argue that the proportion of international students in and of itself is a poor indicator of international richness if a single nationality dominates the student body. I explore the phenomenon of cultureCulture international culture dominance and show how it creates ‘assimilation trapsAssimilation trap ,’ that is, a tendency of foreign students to try to assimilate with the culture of the dominant nationality on campus, a phenomenon that greatly reduces the cultural learning these foreign students could have transmitted to the domestic students.

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  • Gabriel Hawawini, 2016. "International Richness," SpringerBriefs in Business, in: The Internationalization of Higher Education and Business Schools, chapter 0, pages 49-53, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:spbrcp:978-981-10-1757-5_6
    DOI: 10.1007/978-981-10-1757-5_6
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