Dr. Allan E. Goodman, President and CEO of the Institute of International Education, describes his interactions with international students at a Ohio university that sparked his idea to develop IIE’s recent publication, Preparing to Study in the USA: 15 Things Every International Student Should Know. "[Co-author Stacie Berdan and I] discovered that there was an awful lot about American higher education that did not translate well into other cultures. This book is our effort to gather in one volume some of the most confusing things about our system as well as the culture surrounding it, and then try to explain it from the viewpoint of someone encountering it for the first time."