Michael Milkovitz's research while affiliated with KPMG and other places

... Empirically, studies of the international students' psychological, social-cultural, life, or academic adaptations suggest that in academic studies, international students unavoidably encounter acculturative stress and difficulties in these dimensions [33,34], such as the assessment models, academic writing ability, teacher-student relationships that can influence students' academic adaptation [35][36][37]. In the mean time, use of social sources, satisfaction with the host university, and challenge-coping greatly account for the students' levels of psychological adaptation [38][39][40]. ese factors, including initial across-cultural transition, learning strategies, leisure engagement, course-participation, bilingual competence, etc., are proved to be significant contributors to the international students' general adaptability including social-cultural, well-being, and academic adaptation as well [41][42][43][44]. ese studies demonstrate that crosscultural adaptation is a quite complex and dynamic process, and factors in developing students' acculturative competencies could vary in terms of cultural distances, contexts, situations, and student groups. ...