Lumina Education Special

Breaking Barriers: The challenges immigrants face in accessing higher education [Forward to a friend]( | [Subscribe]( | [View in your browser]( [Top of The World]( --------------------------------------------------------------- Lumina Education Special Breaking Barriers: The challenges immigrants face in accessing higher education [Professor Juan Madrid with his students from the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley at a radio telescope in Fort Davis in West Texas, which is owned by the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO), August 2022.] Credit: Courtesy of Constantine Poulos On Monday, Jun. 19, The World will host a one-hour education special looking at the cross section of immigration and language within higher education in the United States and around the world. 📚🎓 Be sure to tune in to the show. 🎙️ Here is a [sneak peak]( at some of those stories. --------------------------------------------------------------- From The World [Is the US still the No. 1 education destination?]( [A student poses for photos after the final day of China's national college entrance examinations, known as the gaokao, in Beijing, June 10, 2023.]( Credit: Mark Schiefelbein/AP American colleges and universities have started to stumble when it comes to attracting top talent. Yingyi Ma, who teaches sociology at Syracuse University and has written extensively about Chinese students experiences in the US, and Tianrui Huang, a senior at the University of California San Diego studying philosophy and economics, [discuss the challenges]( with The World's Marco Werman. [How the Bologna Process expanded opportunities for students across Europe]( [Cité Internationale Universitaire campus in Paris, France.]( Credit: Rebecca Rosman/The World Exchange programs allow students to move freely between universities across the European Union, while paying local tuition fees — which, in some cases, can be free. [The Bologna Process]( has united university degrees across the continent under a common set of quality assurance controls and recognition standards. [Crossing borders: Living in one country, going to school in another]( [Southwestern College is located in Chula Vista, California.]( Credit: Southwestern College/YouTube Thousands of students attending US colleges and universities actually reside in Mexico. The World's Marco Werman speaks to teacher Joanna Esser and Tijuana student Carlos Tenorio from Southwestern College in Chula Vista, California, about what it's like to [cross borders daily]( for education. [How Miami Dade College teaches students to learn, live in a bilingual world]( [From left: Romina Cano Velasquez, 24, Fabiana Gonzalez Zambrano, 20, and Ana Camba Gomes, 20, enjoy their last moments together at the Miami Dade College West Campus on Aug. 19, 2022, in Doral, Florida.]( Credit: Matias J. Ocner/Miami Herald Miami Dade College’s [dual-language program]( is one of the few of its kind in the nation. It was created for high-achieving bilingual high school students uncertain about applying to college because they're recent immigrants, have low standardized test scores or aren't sure what opportunities are available to them in US higher education. --------------------------------------------------------------- The Top of the World newsletter will resume on Tuesday, Jun. 20 after the Juneteenth holiday. In case you missed it on The World --------------------------------------------------------------- Don't forget to subscribe to The World's Latest Edition podcast using your favorite podcast player: [RadioPublic](, [Apple Podcasts](, [Stitcher](, [Soundcloud](, [RSS]( [The World logo]( [The World on Facebook]( [The World's Twitter account]( [Donate]( | [Forward to a friend]( | [Subscribe]( | [Edit your subscription]( | [Unsubscribe]( | [View in your browser]( Top of the World is written weekday mornings by the team at [The World](. [The World]( is produced by [PRX]( and [GBH](.