The World Wise podcast is back after a brief summer break! This episode focuses on student migration and mobility, a topic that we have often covered on this show. Today's guest, Dr. Stephanie K. Kim, offers a very different perspective, and in this conversation with her we move between Berkeley, California, and Seoul in South Korea to better understand how international students—mainly South Korean students—make choices about their studies, but also how universities themselves help shape these choices and pathways. Stephanie is an Associate Professor at Georgetown University in Washington DC where she specializes in comparative and international higher education and researches and writes about international students, higher education reform, and higher education policy in the United States and countries in Asia. She has just published a new book which is the theme of this episode.
Episode Themes:
The journey between Berkeley and Seoul and how these two cities figured in Stephanie's journey as a scholar of student mobility
How Stephanie's new book, Constructing Student Mobility: How Universities Recruit Students and Shape Pathways Between Berkeley and Seoul, offers a new angle to the burgeoning field of student mobility research
Stephanie's journey as an author and on navigating the publishing journey
Understanding Korean international students--the third largest group of international students in the U.S.--and how their interests have evolved over time and how the pursuit of a global education begins early for many Korean students and families.
How Stephanie's personal journey as a Korean American has shaped the work that she does as a scholar and researcher of student mobility
Episode Resources:
Follow Stephanie on Twitter and LinkedIn
Listen to Episode 24 with Professor Yingyi Ma
Check out MPOWER Financing's Social Impact Report
My book: America Calling: A Foreign Student in a Country of Possibility
Sign up for America Calling: my take on the intersection of education, culture and migration
Connect with me: LinkedIn, Twitter
Episode sponsor:
This episode was made possible by the generous support of MPOWER Financing which provides no-cosigner loans and scholarships for international, DACA, and refugee students. Headquartered in Washington DC, MPOWER has to date helped tens of thousands of students fund their educational dreams and journeys.
