New Conversation: Linguistic Access to Higher Education
“Sometimes you have to push things along” – Linguistic Access to Higher Education
A Conversation with Marleen Whiteley
In October 2023, JPHE Senior Editor Z.W. Taylor spoke with Marleen Whiteley, a Senior Project Manager working for the Swedish Council for Higher Education. In this Conversation, Marleen described the Swedish-English higher education dictionary she helps manage, which provides standardized terminology translations to help international students and educators. We discussed how the United States (U.S.) lacks centralized resources like this, but it could help democratize information for first-generation and non-English speaking students. We agreed starting small by translating basic admissions and financial aid terminology could help lower access barriers in the U.S. and across the world.
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