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international students has decreased, and those funds have instead been focused more toward Office of Study Abroad scholarships, Rosen said.
International Recruitment and Undergraduate Admissions (IRUA) awards 25 to 50 merit-based scholarships to international students each year, some of which are renewable, said Daphne Johnston, IRUA associate director. The University also hosts 260 international students who are sponsored by their home country governments. International students also still qualify for other scholarships, like awards given by individual departments or exchange discounts.
INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS
DO WELL AT KU
Something that makes the University especially attractive is how academically successful KU international students generally are.
"We've got the infrastructure already developed and have had the infrastructure to serve those students well," Melvin said.
KU international students generally have a high retention rate. For Fall 2012 full-time first-time freshmen, 81.1 percent of international students returned to the University after a year. That's a higher retention rate than that year's overall average — 79.9 percent — and much higher than the retention rate for domestic ethnic minority students — 68.8 percent.
"Once they've made a choice to come 5,000 miles to study, they're fairly committed," Olcese said. "It's not a quick trip home and it's a great investment by their family. So they're not going to give up on it. And they tend to be fairly motivated students in the first place."
That retention rate excludes AEC students or students who transferred credit from international universities, but Olcese said it indicates some of international student success.
"As the numbers grow, as
However, as international enrollment increases, Olcese said International Student Services will have to do more to connect students who need help with resources. ISS has only 10 full-time employees to help the University's 2,283 international students with questions about maintaining their immigration status.
with any population, those things become more and more challenging because we're getting a more varied kind of student to come who [isn't] necessarily as fully prepared as they were 10 years ago." Olcese said.
Since the AAP is designed to transition international students into KU academics and culture, AAP Interim Managing Director Todd Fritch said he expects its students will have higher retention and degree completion rates.
"The ultimate success of the program will be primarily based on graduation rates," Fritch said.
USING A PRIVATE COMPANY
Before partnering with Shorelight, the University didn't have resources to expand international recruitment.
The University only has one full-time international recruiter, who is part of IRUA. Shorelight has a network of about 30 full-time employees recruiting international students, in addition to local contract employees, Rosen said.
Until May 2013, international student recruitment was handled by an ad hoc committee of about six members who visited high schools and international fairs in specific countries.
The committee wasn't a good long-term vision because membership and budget was reformed every year. In May 2013, IRUA was established as a standing office, mostly working on admissions and translating applications.
Shorelight has more recruiters than the University could hire or manage, Rosen said. On Feb. 11, 2014, the University signed the contract with Shorelight. Though Shorelight filed an injunction against a Lawrence-Journal World records requests last spring, a redacted copy of the contract was released to The Kansan last semester and can be read on Kansan.com.
"We're still working out how we collaborate with them," Johnston said.
Rosen said she wasn't exactly sure how increasing the number of international students on campus will change the classroom experience for domestic students, but she said she thinks it will be great.
"I think we're going to have to play it out and see how that changes the experience." Rosen said.
HOW WILL THIS AFFECT ME;
A DOMESTIC KU STUDENT?
Olcese said the average domestic student probably notices that 9.3 percent of the student body is international.
"But if you were to double that number, it doesn't take long before there's a different feel about things." Olcsee said. "Getting out ahead of that to make that a positive change to make sure people don't feel like they're losing something is the big task ahead of us."
Johnston said international students help the KU community open its eyes to different global perspectives. She thinks breaking down preconceptions about each others' homes is citizenship diplomacy.
However, though global diversity is a benefit of international students, international students aren't the only diversity on campus.
"It's doing something really good for America and the world, not just KU," Johnston said. "That's why I do it."
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"My hope is that it will be a good experience for all of the students. We'll have to see how it plays out."
That's about normal compared to other U.S. universities. Thirty-one percent of all the international students studying in the United States during the 2013-14 academic year were from China, according to the Institute of International Education's 2014 report.
Unlike for international students, Melvin said there are no exact percentage goals for domestic racial or ethnic minority students.
"We hardly recruit in China," Olcese said. "There are so many people and their economy is so robust right now that
"I've always been uncomfortable with using that 'diversity' term as a major reason for internationalizing a campus because it's just such a catch-all," she said. "I don't think it's the main reason we have international students here."
36 PERCENT OF KU'S INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS FROM CHINA
Last semester, 36 percent of the University's international students were from China, according to ISS.
they can afford to (send their students to the United States to study)”
Olceese said a huge benefit of partnering with Shorelight will be using their resources to reach students from countries where the University might not previously have had brand recognition.
Rosen said global diversity goals would be created each year once the AAP was more established but did not say when those goals would be set or take effect.
"I would like to see those goals happen sooner rather than later," Olcese said.
"We know that there's a huge Chinese pipeline right now, but those things shift," Rosen said. "We're expecting that our Shorelight partners will be abreast of the shifts as these things happen."
Last semester, 45 of the 57 AAP students — 79 percent
were from China. Because the contract was signed later in the academic year, last February, Shorelight focused its resources where there were enough potential students to recruit.
Countries of origin information for the 51 Spring 2015 AAP students won't be released until later this semester, but administrators said the class seems more diverse than last semester's.
COMING TOGETHER QUICKLY Some details about the University's relationship with Shorelight aren't finalized.
COMING TOGETHER QUICKLY
"All of the critical elements of the partnership are well-established." Fritch said. "We're now just looking at how do we ensure appropriate allocation of resources as the program begins to grow."
Though the AAP is now in its second semester, the University still hasn't hired a permanent AAP managing director or academic director.
Fritch, the interim managing director, is a Shorelight employee who agreed to stay at the University until a permanent managing director is hired. Rosen said Shorelight hasn't brought a pool of applicants to the University since the summer, and the University is being picky about whom it hires.
Cotten-Spreckelmeyer, a Humanities and Western Civilization professor, accepted the University's offer to serve as interim academic director for one year.
Once the program is mature, Rosen and Fritch expect to have 600 to 800 AAP students.
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That will affect student housing. Rosen said the University will want to make sure international students have the option to live on-campus, which she said influences plans the University has to build another residence hall near Oliver Hall. Stouffer Place, which houses graduate, non-traditional and some international students, will close this summer.
That will also affect classroom demands. AAP is headquartered in Strong Hall, but Fritch said administrators may need more space as the program expands in the fall.
The University may also create more programs to integrate AAP students into the rest of the student body.
Yuhon Ye, for example, said he wants to make more American friends. A second semester AAP student from Changzhou, China, he watches movies, plays ping-pong and hangs out in dormitory rooms with the Americans who live on his floor in Oliver. His only integrated class first semester, math, wasn't much of an opportunity to make American friends outside of his floor.
The University may also tweak AAP course content and syllabi, especially if integrated classes for second-semester AAP students are too hard.
Ye is a good student — he said he earned a 3.92 GPA last semester — and likes public speaking, but his COMS 130 class requires a lot of vocabulary and writing.
"Quite difficult, but I like this because I think it's very fun" he said.
Ye said he likes that the AAP lets him earn college credit while also improving his English. He did well last semester, but he said he was not sure if he's ready to be a sophomore yet. He still has this semester and the summer term to do more vocabulary and pronunciation work before comparing himself to American students.
"We didn't have the chance to have competition with American students," he said. "After this semester, I can give you the answer."
"We'll see how it works," Rosen said. "My hope is that it will be a good experience for all of the students. We'll have to see how it plays out."
Rosen said assessing and making adjustments if needed were parts of putting the AAP together.
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dwelling and theft, were dismissed. The professor, who has been with the University for more than 12 years, was honored at the Kansas football game against TCU this past year after receiving the H.O.P.E. award. Before coming to the University, Pendergrass taught
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