INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS: An Introduction presented by the International Student and Scholar Programs

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INTERNATIONAL STUDENTSAn Introductionpresented
by the International Student and Scholar Programs
Office

• 1/17/2007
• DUC 355
• 12pm-130-pm

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Distinctions

• Foreign students are people in transition
• Foreign students basic values and assumptions
  can be very different

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• Foreign students are living in an academic
  setting
• Foreign students social support situations are
  distinctive

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• Foreign students customary communicative styles
  are different
• Foreign students are unlikely to share the
  advisor or counselors conception of the advisor
  or counselors role

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LAST DISTINCTION!

• FOREIGN STUDENTS FACE UNIQUE PROBLEMS AND
  ISSUES OF ADJUSTMENT

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MAJOR ADJUSTMENT PROBLEMS

• Initial Adjustment to the new culture

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• Academic Difficulty stemming from the different
  academic system

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• Political, religious and social conflicts which
  may arise among fellow nationals

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• Impact of developments in their home countries

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Cross-cultural male-female relationships
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• Social isolation, depression and paranoia

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• Financial difficulties

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• Anxiety brought on by fear of immigration
  authorities

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• Stressful relationships with particular Americans
  especially academic advisors, roommates, and
  landlords

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• Dealing with new-found freedom

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• Dealing with disappointed expectations (the
  students own and those of family)

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• Dealing with death of family or friends in the
  home country and being unable to return home

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• Deciding where to live after graduation

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• Anxieties about returning home

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THANK YOU for you participation!

• The information we have just presented and
  shared with you has been excerpted from Paul B.
  Pedersen, et al., Eds. Counseling Across Cultures
  (Third Ed). Honolulu University of Hawaii
  Press, 1989. Reprinted with permission