New Books in Education · Marshall Poe
Stephanie K. Kim, "Constructing Student Mobility: How Universities Recruit Students and Shape Pathways between Berkeley and Seoul" (MIT Press, 2023)
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After the Great Recession, UC Berkeley lost $800 million and turned to international students for tuition dollars.
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A clear look at how study abroad becomes a constrained institutional choice.
Stephanie K. Kim's book treats student mobility as an institutionally shaped decision, not a clean break into adventure. It is most convincing when it stays with Jihoon and Taeho, because their paths make the argument feel lived in rather than abstract.
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You want a careful map of how Seoul and California connect through one student's choices and constraints.
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