Abstract
<p><em></em><em><em>The benefits of the presence of international faculty on university campuses are widely acknowledged. Their integration into campus life creates a global atmosphere and provides rich resources to encourage globalization efforts on campus. We set out to explore the perceptions of the challenges faced by our international faculty, with the further goal of meeting these challenges and increasing their retention. To probe these perceptions and address the challenges they identified, we created and disseminated a survey and interviewed our international faculty. The results of the study will be used to increase the retention of international faculty at our institution. The actions we propose will be to create more opportunities to socialize, provide more legal support, recruit more international students, offer mentorship based on cultural affinity, and make English language support and speech modification services available to international faculty and encourage them to take advantage of these services.</em></em><em></em></p>
Highlights
The benefits of the presence of international individuals on university campuses are acknowledged by everyone in higher education
The actions we propose will be to create more opportunities to socialize, provide more legal support, recruit more international students, offer mentorship based on cultural affinity, and make English language support and speech modification services available to international faculty and encourage them to take advantage of these services
How can universities increase the presence and retention of international faculty on our college campus? What steps can be taken to meet their social, cultural, academic, and linguistic needs? In this study, the authors have set out to explore the perceptions of the challenges faced by the international faculty at our university to be able to meet these identified needs thereby resulting in increased retention rates
Summary
The benefits of the presence of international individuals on university campuses are acknowledged by everyone in higher education. The authors have set out to explore the perceptions of the challenges faced by the international faculty at our university to be able to meet these identified needs thereby resulting in increased retention rates. Criteria for retaining a highly qualified faculty in higher education in many cases are vague and unclear (Soomro, 2013) It is a wonder why so little research has looked at the issues facing international faculty, especially considering that in 1998, Finkelstein, Seal, and Shuster (as cited in Phillips, Dennison, & Davenport, 2016) reported that 26.6% of all new faculty in this country are foreign born, as are 17% of senior faculty. We begin with a discussion of the methodology, move on to a discussion of the results, and offer recommendations based on the results
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