Exploring International Students’ Difficulties During Pandemic
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COVID Period; International Student; US College And University; Difficulty; Education Pattern; Mental Health.Abstract
This paper reviews the various difficulties that international students have encountered during the COVID-19 pandemic. The article will collect and analyze the difficulties they face from multiple perspectives, including academic, life, emotional, etc. International students in this study can come from all over the world and ethnicity, but they are all students from higher education institutions of the United States and other Western countries. Depending on their nationality or ethnicity, the study will also analyze the degree and number of difficulties they face. By analyzing whether and how the difficulties they faced were resolved, the US colleges and universities can more clearly understand what the needs of international students are under special circumstances, along with helping colleges and international students to get through the last time of the pandemic. The contribution of this paper is by reviewing the difficulties of international students that have been resolved and unresolved during this pandemic period, in similar crisis situations in the future, colleges and universities can provide international students with the help they need more quickly and accurately.
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