A Ph.D.’s Memoir Champions a U.S. Education
https://indiacurrents.com/america-calling-a-ph-ds-memoir-champions-a-u-s-education/
Each fall, thousands of students arrive with dreams and two suitcases each, ready to study in colleges and universities all across America. They are international students that add $45 billion to the country’s economy annually. Then, surviving the peculiarities of American life, untangling the red tape, and managing the wait, many remain, often contributing to the country through job creation, innovation, and research. Dr. Rajika Bhandari was one of those students, and as she argues in her must-read book, America Calling: A Foreign Student in a Country of Possibility, the impact of international students on America is as substantial as the obstacles they face.
In 1992, Bhandari followed her fiancé, Vikram, to Raleigh to earn her doctorate in psychology at North Carolina State University. Initially, she was hesitant about being faced with the post-doc choice of staying in the U.S. or returning to India. Plus, she feared there were just too many choices to be made in the U.S. She was right about both. [Read the full review here]
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