For HR directors, corporate trainers, college administrators, diversity trainers and study abroad educators, this book provides a cutting-edge framework and an innovative collection of ready-to-use tools and activities to help build cultural competencefrom the basics of understanding core concepts of culture to the complex work of negotiating identity and resolving cultural differences.

This book responds to the growing calls among international educators, activists, and students themselves to pay closer attention to the qualitative dimensions of international students' experiences at U. This book outlines deep approaches to the academic and social integration of international students at U.