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This chapter focuses on strategies for supporting and mentoring foreign-born scholars and scientists pursuing careers in US colleges and universities. Foreign-born or international scholars account for an increasing proportion of the US professoriate, but little has been written about their experiences, the cultural and legal challenges they are confronted with, the advantages they offer, and the policy and institutional changes that might be implemented to support them (Germain-Rutherford and Kerr 2009; Theobald 2009; Alberts 2008; Collins 2008; Manrique and Manrique 1999). Some challenges are difficult to surmount, but others can be addressed quite readily given adequate awareness of the issues involved.
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Foote, K. (2013). Supporting and Mentoring International Faculty. In: Alberts, H.C., Hazen, H.D. (eds) International Students and Scholars in the United States. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137024473_10
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