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International faculty are common in the United States, in particular in technical disciplines. They are believed to bring new perspectives in teaching and research, thus contributing to internationalization goals now prominent in US higher education (Gürüz 2011; Smetherham, Fenton, and Modood 2010). Despite their numerical importance and far-reaching impacts on the US higher-education system, international faculty’s experiences, career trajectories, and migration decisions have received relatively little scholarly attention to date (Saltmarsh and Swirski 2010). In particular, not much is known about international faculty from high-income countries such as Japan and Germany (see Cheng and Yang 1998), which rank among the top five countries of origin of international scholars in the United States (Institute of International Education 2011).
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Alberts, H. (2013). German Faculty in the United States. In: Alberts, H.C., Hazen, H.D. (eds) International Students and Scholars in the United States. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137024473_5
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