Company Matches Foreign Teachers and U.S. Schools
Service Grows Rapidly in Southeastern States
Chapel Hill, N.C.
The Visiting International Faculty Program’s boardroom in a suburban office building here features the expected big expanse of a conference table and one colorful surprise: a pair of large glass vases filled with pale-green cat’s-eye marbles.
Each of the roughly 1,850 gum-ball-size marbles represents a teacher from abroad who signed with VIF to work in an American public school this year, says Alan J. Young, the chief executive officer of the company.
That number means that VIF is likely the sponsor of more international-exchange visas for teachers per year than any other U.S. organization, and it represents a greater than tenfold increase in the number of VIF teachers...
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