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Commentary: Foreign students enrich America's colleges educationally and culturally. Why give that up?
The main building on the campus of Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule in Zürich, Switzerland.
I am the perfect example of the advantages of welcoming foreign students.
I grew up in Delmar and attended Union College. In 1971 I traveled to Vienna, Austria, with a class of Union students for a trimester. My friend Chris and I stayed with a Viennese family, attending class near the famous St. Stephen’s Cathedral and interacting with the Viennese in one of the great cities of the world. That fall, I started a year abroad as an exchange student at the Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule (ETH) in Zürich, Switzerland.
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The ETH is one of the greatest science, engineering and mathematics colleges of the world. It was free, and the ETH sent a student to Union College for the year. Not only did I learn mathematics, German and........
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