Professor's concerns about educational benefit for international students

Hats off to Adele Barker, a professor at University of Arizona, whose essay for Inside Higher Education revealed her ambivalence about whether the international students she teaches are ready for or experience higher education as we would hope. Her point is that the bargain goes both ways - students from other countries should come fully prepared to engage in English and to meet the high expectations of the research universities they attend. U.S.A. institutions need to look at their reasons for admitting international students and need to make the resource available for them to succeed. Ultimately, at issue is maintaining standards of quality and making sure that students so full of hope and aspiration truly receive the gold-standard education they seek.