2019 Annual Conference

International Adult Education

Concurrent Session (45 minutes)

The United States of America has been always the best educational destination for adult Saudi students. In 2018, there are 60,000 adult Saudi students in American universities. However, there are some educational and social challenges facing them. For example, Universities admission requirements, Islamophobia, airports entrance, and isolations from society. 

Scholars and adult educators who are interested in international education, social and educational challenges relate to international students in the United States. During this presentation, the audience will be educated on the important role that political, cultural, and social issues play in Saudi students an educational experience in the US. and how these elements are not independent of one another. Since they are many stereotypes toward international students from the Middle East, this session would be a great opportunity for those who are interested to know more about how adult education has been helping Saudi students to overcome educational, political, and social issues during their studying in the United States many.

The learning outcomes of this session are to identify some challenges that might face Saudi students during their educational trip to the United States. The audience may benefit from this session in many angles such as how Saudi students deal with these challenges when first come to a western environment such as the US. providing some real-life experiences that help Saudi students overcome these challenges. The audience will learn about the challenges these students have been through and despite these challenges, they promote their program nationwide.

The importance of this study is to find practical solutions for challenges that encounter Saudi students educational achievements. Also, to help them focus on their studying no matter what the challenges are? To identify the impacts of these challenges on Saudi students is significant because that might help other international students to apply this experience to their situations. The challenges these students went through and how they find an innovative solution for each of them within the limitation they had is another story.

Annually there are many educational meetings have been hosted by different organizations in Saudi Arabia and the United States to evaluate and provide new solutions to overcome these challenges. This paper would be helpful for educators who are designing programs for different cultures. In addition that would help them to gain a better understanding of the factor of culture in education.

This presentation is including powerpoint slides. This topic requires a brief history background