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The American University Meets the Pacific Century. Nancy Abelmann Soo Ah Kwon Tim Liao Adrienne Lo. Changing demographics. Number of international undergraduate students. CHANGING demographics. Number of international undergraduate students. AUPC.
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The American University Meets the Pacific Century Nancy Abelmann Soo Ah Kwon Tim Liao Adrienne Lo
Changing demographics Number of international undergraduate students
CHANGING demographics Number of international undergraduate students
AUPC • University of Illinois as a contact zone • Focus on Colleges of Engineering and Business • Students from China and South Korea, faculty, domestic students, campus services, etc. • Survey + ethnographic fieldwork (interviews and observations)
Findings: Global marketplace World rankings in engineering/technology and computer science • MIT • Stanford • Berkeley • University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign • Georgia Tech • University of Texas, Austin • University of Michigan • Carnegie Mellon • Penn State • UC San Diego • 10. USC
History Chinese students at the U of I (1911) Tsinghua University
INT’L STUDENTS • Variety of pathways to the U of I • Class variation • Importance of co-ethnic organizations • Awareness of differences in tuition UIUC-CSSA 2011 New Student Handbook 新生手册发布
INT’L STUDENTS • “How do Americans make friends?” • Relations with Asian Americans • Disappointment with downstate location
Domestic students • Cautious about sounding racist • Int’l students improve the quality of the U of I • Sincere interest in getting to know them
Domestic students • Wealth • “Taking seats” from deserving domestic students • Language deficiencies • Relations with Asian Americans, Latinos, etc.
faculty • Keenly aware of demographic shift • “It just happened” • Faculty/students not prepared (two commissions) • Change teaching methods, expectations, services? • Concern that no one office/person is responsible for these students
SURVEY : Target Population & Objects • All undergraduate students currently registered in the 3 Colleges of Business, Engineering, and LAS (Liberal Arts and Sciences) • Online survey launched on March 5, 2012 • 4 consistent and comparable modules, designed for Chinese, Korean, domestic, and other international undergraduate students • Questions about family background, application process, social interaction on campus, satisfaction with education & campus life, post-graduation plans, etc.
