Improving International Student Retention through Acculturation Courses

January 27, 2012

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Overview

Retain more international students by implementing an effective first-year acculturation course.

Join us online to learn how you can improve international student retention by offering first-year courses that focus on university culture in the US and foster connections to the campus community. This webcast will address how to develop, staff, and assess a first-year acculturation course, as well as how to encourage international students to attend.

Whether your institution is large or small, public or private, following this webcast, you will better be able to:

Develop student learning outcomes, curriculum, and lessons for your first-year acculturation course
Recruit and train instructors
Get international students to attend your course
Evaluate the success of your first-year acculturation course

WHO SHOULD ATTEND

This program is appropriate for all administrators, professional staff, and faculty who are involved in providing student support to international students. Directors, assistant directors, and associate directors of international student services are encouraged to attend, as are international student advisors and international student services coordinators. After attending this program, you will have the information to better support international students by developing or improving an acculturation course.

Agenda

Learning Outcome:

After attending this webcast, you will be able to develop an effective acculturation course for international students at your institution.

Friday, January 27, 2012

1:00 - 2:45 p.m. EST

Overview of University of Southern California's course
Developing your course
- Analyzing students' needs and who should take the course
- Developing student learning outcomes and curriculum
- Determining if the course will be credit or non-credit bearing
- Piloting the course
Staffing your course
- Recruiting instructors and incentivizing the experience
- Developing instructor training
- Planning and implementing instructor training
Getting your international students to attend
- Marketing the course
- Scheduling
- Creating peer and staff connections
- Engaging students
Evaluating your success
- Increasing funding and institutional support through course assessment
- Determining appropriate types of assessment for your course
- Collecting, examining, and utilizing data
Final thoughts and Q&A
- Challenges, successes, tips

Want more information about this event?

Contact Lisa Wexler, Assistant Conference Director if you'd like additional information about the program agenda.

Instructors

Chrissy Roth

Associate Director, Orientation Programs

University of Southern California

Chrissy Roth is the associate director of orientation programs at the University of Southern California. She is specifically responsible for coordinating international student orientation, graduate student orientation, and Hong Kong orientation. Additionally, Chrissy oversees “The United States: An American Culture Series,” where USC staff members and graduate students teach new international students about American ways and values throughout their first semester. Chrissy joined USC in 2007 after completing her master’s degree in higher education at New York University. She became interested in working professionally at a university while she was an journalism undergraduate student at Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo. As a graduate student at NYU, she held internships at NYU, Fordham University, and Temple University. She is an active member of the National Orientation Directors Association and is the co-chair and co-founder of the International Student Orientation Network.

Registration

CD Recording of Live Webcast

We record the audio and visual portion of all live webcast events and make them available in two forms; as a CD or as an electronic download. CD recordings are mailed with a bound copy of the presentation materials and handouts approximately 10 business days following the live webcast date.

$350.00

Improving International Student Retention through Acculturation Courses CD Recording

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On-Demand Download of Live Webcast (180 day license)

We record the audio and visual portion of all live webcast events and make them available in two forms; as a CD or as an electronic download. On-demand downloads are available through an internet link sent via email approximately 10 business days following the live webcast date (links are active for 180 days).

$350.00

Improving International Student Retention through Acculturation Courses On-Demand Download

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