Eric Hoover on the Road from Katmandu to an American College Campus
History and Politics
English - March 15, 2019 17:06 - 38 minutes - 70.9 MB - ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsSociety & Culture History Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Conversation with Eric Hoover a senior writer at The Chronicle of Higher Education. We talk about the controversy over Nepalese students admitted to the University of Texas at Tyler who after receiving a full scholarship this was cancelled which make Eric to travel to Katmandu the capital of Nepal to understand the interest of Nepalese students in studying in the US. In the context of controversies surrounding the admission process in several universities we also deal with challenges that Nepalese students and in general Third World students to get admitted in American college.