Abstract
The purpose of this personal narrative is to document initiatives that were designed and implemented to increase engagement and inclusivity for international students. The university campus of focus is a historically elite institution that enrolls one out of five international undergraduate students when compared to domestic peers. Initiatives focused on welcome events (i.e., orientation, campus tours, student panels) were implemented along with initiatives focused on student mental health and student wellness. Successful initiatives utilized campus resources such as university crisis and alert teams in addition to campus resources focused on counseling and student health.
Highlights
The purpose of this personal narrative is to document initiatives that were designed and implemented to increase engagement and inclusivity for international students
There has been an increase of international students choosing to study at higher education institutions (HEI) within the United States
Though this equates to approximately 8% of total fulltime students enrolled in 2015 (National Center for Education Statistics, 2016), international students have become a growing population on college campuses
Summary
They may be strangers to the campus, and possibly to the United States, international students seek services and programming that is equal to that of their domestic peers. Taking into consideration the totality of a student’s identity allows university staff to employ resources and tactics for students to find their inner voice while taking into consideration views from within the campus community and outside the community (Torres, Jones, & Renn, 2009). In recent years, another great resource for international students has been teams of university staff and faculty called crisis teams. The notion of a crisis team showed relevance when in 2007 a lone gunman killed 33 individuals (including himself) on the campus of Virginia Tech University (Wigley & Fontenot, 2010)
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