University Daily Kansan
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68 Nations Represented Here
By Vinay Kothari
(The first of a four part series)
Never before have so many students come from so far to attend the University of Kansas.
The spring semester enrollment of foreign students at KU is 351 from 68 nations. The 68 nations are the most ever represented here, although there were 15 more individuals in the fall semester.
The number of enrollment of other nations' students falls as follows: Great Britain and Greece, 9; France, 8; Egypt, Iran, Pakistan and Thailand, 7; Korea and Switzerland, 6; Costa Rica, Italy, the Netherlands, Syria and Turkey, 5; Argentina, Brazil, Lebanon and Saudi Arabia, 4; Austria, Brunei, Burma, Japan, Afghanistan, Cuba, Iceland, Nigeria, Norway, South Africa, Singapore and Tunisia, 3; Aden, Bolivia, Israel, Panama, Spain, Uruguay and Yemen, 2.
ASIA SUPPLIES 56 per cent of the total. There are 79 Europeans here.
India has the most students here, 49, followed by Taiwan with 48. Other leaders are Germany, 21, Canada and Venezuela, 12; Hong Kong and the Philippines, 11.
NATIONS REPRESENTED by only single students are the Bahamas, Cambodia, Czechoslovakia, Chile, Ecuador, Cyprus, Ethiopia, Finland, Ghana, Indonesia, Jamacia, Jordan, Kenya, Liberia, Malaya, Mexico, Morocco, Poland, Sierra Leone, Southern Rhodesia, Sweden, Tanganvika and Yugoslavia.
A venture in good will with foreign countries which began at the University of Kansas in 1870 when the first foreign student enrolled has grown to a program. The growth of the program indicates its value both to KU and the foreign students.
KU's foreign student program began when Grace E. M. Scoullar from Canada enrolled in 1871 to study a classical course. KU was at that time a preparatory college. She was followed the next year by two Canadians, Dilbert and Lizzie Yeagley. The third Yeagley, John Henry, arrived in 1872.
There were no foreign students recorded in 1873-74, but the next year another country, Wales, was represented.
Foreign student enrollment continued to be sporadic until 1900 but more countries and courses of study were introduced. By 1906 Cuba, Bulgaria, Japan, Mexico, Norway and the Philippines had been represented. Gradually students came
In the 1920's Philippine students made up the majority of foreign enrollment. Fields of study expanded to include pharmacy, medicine and engineering. By 1940 Italy, Iran, a number of South American and African countries, Norway, China, France, England, Germany and others had been added to the list. During the war foreign enrollment declined, then boomed with the coming of peace.
from Rumania, Turkey, Russia, Holland. Honduras and Germany.
As years passed, the number of foreign students at KU increased. Three hundred and one foreign students attended KU in the fall of 1961 and 312 in the spring of 1962 representing 61 nations.
IN THE 1950'S it had risen to an all time high with 196 in 1956-57 and 210 in 1957-58. These figures did not include 40 foreign students at the KU Medical Center in Kansas City or students from U.S. territories, such as the 20 from Hawaii.
Statistics compiled by Dr. Clark Coan, foreign student adviser and assistant dean of men, show that the majority of the foreign students presently enrolled at KU is on the graduate level. There are 266 men and 85 women students.
Coan said in an interview the most popular field of study is engineering and science with 117 foreign students enrolled in the major branches of engineering. He said chemistry and geology divisions have the most foreign students enrolled within the science field. Other major fields rating high with the foreign students are social sciences, life sciences, humanities, languages, business and several others. Almost all departments at KU have at least one foreign student.
AMONG RELIGIONS represented by the foreign students are Protestant, Catholic, Jewish, Hindu, Muslim, Buddhist, Taoist and many African religions, Coan said.
"Many foreign students live in private rooms or apartments," he said. "University dormitories are occupied by a small percentage of men and women. Some live in the University scholarship halls and Greek houses."
For the last few years, foreign students have been coming to KU in the summer to attend the U.S.State Department's orientation program for foreign students.
"KU is among the very few schools chosen as a summer orientation center," Coan said.
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KU's reputation as a good school, its active social and cultural life, and its international atmosphere, are a few of the reasons given by new students for coming here.
Why do these students come from far lands to attend KU and don't go to attend any other school?
Some, of course, land at KU by accident.
FRITZ GYSIN, Switzerland graduate student, is one of the latter. He is on the KU scholarship, selected by the Institute of International Education and the IIE chose KU for him.
Hannington Pamba, Kenya graduate student, said, "My adviser at Tabor College (at Hillsboro, Kan.) recommended KU for my graduate study when I graduated last year." Pamba got a bachelor of science degree in zoology last year at Tabor College.
RAMESH GANDHI, Bombay, India, junior, had been admitted to the University of Utah at Salt Lake City, but he decided to study at KU because it was less expensive. He said he also found a better international atmosphere at KU while he was visiting his cousin in Lawrence.
Thailand graduate student Kovit Yeam-Ot was disappointed in Kansas' frosty weather which he assumed would be similar to tropical Thai weather.
"I came to KU because I wanted to live in the 'heart' of the United States," Yeam-Ot said. He is on a UNESCO grant.
Mansur Mady, Saudi Arabia sophomore, studied English and speech at the University of Texas in Austin last year. The International office at UT recommended that he attend KU.
"KU is a difficult school, but I learned the essentials of getting along in a few weeks," he said.
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