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Case Studies--School C

School C is a medium to large Doctoral Research Intensive public university with over 22,000 undergraduate students enrolled. The institution offers more than 300 undergraduate master’s, doctoral, and law degrees. The breakdown of its undergraduate student body is 98% in-state and 2% out of state. The international student breakdown is about 1.3%. The ethnic breakdown of degree seeking full-time undergraduates in 2001-02 is as follows:

At this institution, four hours of World Civilization is needed to fulfill the requirement of taking courses that primarily feature perspectives, issues, or events from specific countries or areas outside the United States. In 2001-02, there were 2 black/non-Hispanic female, 2 white/non-Hispanic male, and 7 white/non-Hispanic female recipients of foreign languages and literatures bachelor degrees.

Marketing and recruitment efforts for both prospective students and currently enrolled students utilize brochures, fairs, flyers, handouts, mailings, emails, interaction with the high school guidance office, high school visits, University programs, student group participation and advising. There is no direct link from the institution’s homepage to its international programs and events webpage nor is international education specifically referred to in the mission statement. There aren’t any special recruitment efforts in place to attract undergraduate minorities to international education. The institution involves its undergraduate student groups to recruit students to international programming by providing special sessions at regular student group meetings, such as the International Business Association and Residence Hall programs. It also utilizes minority faculty to recruit undergraduate students for international education by overseeing the Asian trip and the African trip sponsored by the school. Lastly, the short term program to China and the Spanish language program to Mexico attract the interest of African American undergraduates. The Pan African Studies program at this institution specifically targets undergraduate African American students.

This institution has a central international education operating unit called the Office of International Programs. It includes a Study Abroad office which directly reports to the Director of International Programs. The Study Abroad Office has only one advisor who is a white/non-Hispanic female. the academic year 2001-02, the Study Abroad office received scholarship funding in the amount of approximately $11,000. The Study Abroad participation for credit over the last 5 years is as follows: