Inside Higher Education
But by and large, the recent history of Saudi-U.S. interaction on U.S. campuses is characterized by “broad failures,” says Grant Smith, director of research for the Institute for Research: Middle Eastern Policy, a Washington think tank supportive of increased relations with the Arab world that conducted an online survey this spring of Saudi students in the United States. The results suggested that Saudi students are spending more time with other Saudis than they are with either American students or foreign students from other countries, and many feel they’re receiving only “average treatment” from tutors and teaching assistants.
“Some of the reasons that you’d think we’d want these students here in terms of integration, getting to know us, our way of life � they’re not happening,” says Smith.
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