<div class="gmail_quote"> Forwarded From:  <a href="mailto:edling@lists.sis.utsa.edu">edling@lists.sis.utsa.edu</a><br><br><br>New York Times<br><br><br><br>Study Abroad Flourishes, With China a Hot Spot<br><br><br><br>Record numbers of American students are studying abroad, with especially strong growth in educational exchanges with China, the annual report by the Institute on International Education found.<br>
<br><br><br>The number of Americans studying in China increased by 25 percent, and the number of Chinese students studying at American universities increased by 20 percent last year, according to the report, "Open Doors 2008."<br>
<br><br><br>Full story:<br><br><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/17/education/17exchange.html?_r=1&hp" target="_blank">http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/17/education/17exchange.html?_r=1&hp</a><br><br><br></div>
<br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+<br><br>Harold F. Schiffman<br><br>Professor Emeritus of <br>Dravidian Linguistics and Culture <br>Dept. of South Asia Studies                     <br>University of Pennsylvania<br>
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6305<br><br>Phone:  (215) 898-7475<br>Fax:  (215) 573-2138                                      <br><br>Email:  <a href="mailto:haroldfs@gmail.com">haroldfs@gmail.com</a><br><a href="http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/~haroldfs/">http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/~haroldfs/</a>    <br>
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