This summer, 38 undergraduates, grad students, and visiting scholars from 12 nations are enrolled in Cornell's (EISS) program, according to on the Global Cornell website.
Some of the students include a labor law researcher from a Japanese university, an MBA student from Bulgaria, and a humanities undergraduate from France. Many are in the United States for the first time when they arrive on campus for the intensive, six-week Summer Session course.
鈥淭here鈥檚 something transformative about breaking your own cultural paradigm, stepping into the new place, and noticing that other people think in different ways,鈥 says the program鈥檚 director and associate chair of romance studies. 鈥淔or so many students, EISS is their first landing in the United States, where they launch into using English with an international community鈥攏ot just to answer a question for a teacher. They really use English to communicate.鈥
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