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This study was carried out at Tilburg University, the Netherlands and was nominated for the Best Paper Prize in 2012. It provides valuable management information to universities regarding student-exchange collaborations. It also presents policy implications to institution regulators to guide and facilitate healthy international student mobility among institutions of higher education. With a greater understanding of the state-of-the-art overview on student-exchange collaborations between universities, this study objectively helps these decision-makers and stakeholders realize some problems and side effects of their current approach in relation management, which (potentially) hinder the performance of intercontinental student-exchange activities. The study assists the introduction and adjustment of critical policies and programs in order to optimize the guidance and facilitation to universities on real international student mobility.
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Shen Li - International Marketing Advisor at Avans University of Applied Sciences, the Netherlands. She obtained a MSc in Organization Studies (with distinction) from Tilburg University. Apart from advising on international marketing and student recruitment strategies, she regularly conducts workshops on intercultural communication.
Riassunto
Sally felt the cold gale, heard the scream of police sirens, the honking of fire engine Klaxons. Every detail of the scene sharpened in surreal focus: the weathered plank fences that lined the alley; the bare branches of cottonwoods peaking above the fence tops, flapping in the keening wind; the garbage cans, chained down to board boxes to keep them from blowing away; the clattering sound of dust and gravel flung against hard surfaces.
And the body on the ground. Now she looked at him. Blue pinstripe suit, black wingtip shoes. Not, Sally thought with an unbelievably inappropriate giggle, a Laramie look.
College professor Sally Alder returns to her office one cold, blustery afternoon to find Charlie Preston, a student in her women's history class, slumped in a chair outside her door. The girl has suffered a very recent, brutal battering, but she refuses to call the cops or her family, or go to the hospital. With little other recourse, Sally gives Charlie the cash in her wallet and the coat off her back, and the girl leaves.
Charlie's been gone for two weeks when a body turns up, a man beaten to death in an alley. It's Brad Preston, and his estranged daughter heads the list of suspects. The police immediately start to look for the girl, and so does Sally. The more Sally discovers, the less convinced she is that Charlie is guilty. She has to find the real killer before there's another victim and an innocent young woman must pay the price.
