ABSTRACT
This chapter explores some of the ways in which university students perceptions, values, ways of thinking, and ways of interacting with the world around them have changed since their time abroad. The development in university students thinking approach will serve their well, in ways far beyond studying abroad. The differences each student studying abroad encountered will depend on the culture they visited and the people with whom they lived and interacted. Re-entering students may see themselves and their experiences in Bennett's stages, or may find differences. Keeping in mind that it can take many, many years of intercultural immersion to reach the final stage is important, as most one-time study-abroad students will not have reached this stage. Students in re-entry are actually processing two experiences at the same time—their experience abroad and the transition to coming home—while at the same time trying to work out how they have changed, or even whether they have changed.
