What is U.S. Post-Secondary Institutions

The purpose of this chapter is to suggest personal and academic practices that will encourage international student persistence in post-secondary institutions. International students who enroll in U.S. post-secondary institutions face barriers that may prevent persistence; therefore, faculty have a responsibility to exercise intercultural competence and to help international students overcome those barriers. These suggestions are derived from Marshall's phenomenological qualitative study in which successful global educational leaders from eight different states described their own personal and academic practices. Personal practices that led to intercultural competence of educational leaders included C.O.R.E. values: compassion, open communication, respect, and an ethnorelative attitude.