Describes a workshop designed to inform foreign student counselors about U.S. higher education. (HS)

Eight full-time international undergraduate students enrolled in a Southeast university completed a survey of open-ended questions and participated in a focus group interview. Purpose was to gain understanding of needs and concerns of international students so that student affairs professionals might better meet these needs. Findings suggest most…

This study, facilitated by university and college student service professionals, provides the direct views and lived reality of international graduates of our education system. CBIE advocates for improvements in policies and practices vis-à-vis international students and over the years has been successful in working with federal government…

The effectiveness and quality of health care provided for foreign students in the United States is a concern to many in the field of international education. Because foreign student advisors (FSA) have a cross-cultural perspective as well as a knowledge of the campus health system, they can play an important part in linking foreign students and…

This document presents 2 papers under 1 cover concerning the life of foreign students at the University of Kansas. The first paper, Foreign Students at the University of Kansas by Padma Jayaraman, discusses the difficulties of foreign students in communication with Americans. Foreign students seem to feel alienated from the American culture and…

Students entering college for the first time are often confronted with adjustment problems that seem to them unsurmountable and impossible. There is the transition from living dependently with parents to semi-independent living on the college campus, in addition to the many problems encountered in academic areas. If a student, accustomed to the…

Relationships of perceived prejudice and acculturation with frequency of help resource utilization were examined for South Asian and East Asian international students (N = 110). All predictors, including interactions, were significant but showed different relationships for the 2 groups. The mean frequency of help resource utilization was…

This paper consists of two parts. Section I summarizes the author's experiences in Japan during 1971 when he served as a Visiting Consultant on Student Counseling Services to the U. S. Educational Commission, Japan. It was concluded that the need for the counseling service is high, student counseling roles must be firmly established, and the…

This pilot inquiry and study was designed to explore some of the adjustment experiences of the foreign students on the University of Rochester campus to provide information useful in orientation programming, foreign student advising, and foreign student counseling. Questionnaires were sent to 45 students and returned by 20 students who…

In a college with a high proportion of foreign students, a mental health counselor must be aware of the unique problems facing a person making a difficult cultural adjustment while trying to meet the academic and social standards of the college environment. (JD)

Using qualitative methodology, found that foreign students find language skills, academic issues, and social interaction the most difficult adjustment problems. (Author)

Focuses on career counseling for international students. This introduces a model of career counseling for international students. It is necessary to understand the career counseling process for international students and to emphasize the unique role of the counselor and others in this process. (Author/BEF)

The verbal and nonverbal strategies of rapport, their environments, and their consequences are identified. Interviews between two foreign student advisors and 16 foreign students (both native and non-native speakers of English) were videotaped, and playback sessions with students and advisors were audio-recorded. Rapport-building and…