Methods Of Design And Context

In the article, “Colleges Adapt to New Kinds of Students from Abroad,” Karin Fischer (2011) explains the increase of foreign students in U.S. universities leads to make more problems in campus and how universities are trying to overcome those problems and help foreign students to adapt to campus. Fischer explains the increase of the foreign undergraduate students due to the support from foreign governments. Fischer quotes Wesley Young, the director of services for international students and scholars at the University of California at Davis, to discuss that the increase of foreign undergraduate students especially requires more care and help than graduate students. While older students know what they need to do and what to do in U.S. university,

Rienties, B., Beausaert, S., Grohnert, T., Niemantsverdriet, S., & Kommers, P. (2012). Understanding academic performance of international students: the role of ethnicity, academic and social integration. Higher Education, 63(6), 685-700.

The University of Texas at Dallas is one of the most diverse campuses in Texas. Because of this, we limited our geographic and demographic segmentation research and focused on an in-depth breakdown of our psychographic and behavioral basis. Geographically, our research consisted of students who buy textbooks and only attend UT Dallas. Because of 22% of the student undergraduate population is comprised of international students there is a direct impact of the differentiation of culture regarding spending. According to the strategic planning and analysis profile of the university, 78% of all students are full time and demographically the most represented by our research has been Juniors (38.71%) and Freshman (22.58%).

There were 427 participants for the study: 308 women and 115 men. All participants attended a large, urban, faith-based university. The participants were from many different ethnic backgrounds, however, the majority (75.3%) were Caucasian. A majority of the participants were either freshmen or sophomores. Also, a majority of the participants were involved in

They contribute to the diversity and internationalization of their classrooms, campuses and communities. In this essay we will be looking into the academic, social and cultural challenges international students face when they study here in the US. Follow by why students from different regions (Asia, Africa, Europe, South America, Australia etc.) adapt to US culture differently. Lastly I will look into why International students mostly associated with other international students instead of associating with American students.

Cho and Lee (2016) created a study to find out how international students that attended colleges in the United States sought out information on the correct behaviors of life on college campuses. “Considering the continuous increase of international students, the main goal of this study was to investigate how international students’ information-seeking behaviors directly and indirectly impacted communication satisfaction with instructors and school-life satisfaction” (Cho & Lee, 2016, p.597). The researchers had to become familiar with cultural backgrounds of the students. This was an important variable to understand which provided light as to why certain students acted the ways in

There are many different types of higher education institutions: liberal arts colleges, community colleges, research universities, etc. But regardless of where a student attends college, they can be divided based on three different worldviews: religious, spiritual, but not religious students, and secular students. A study at Trinity College identified some of the main differences among these worldviews. The study sent a survey to 1800 students from thirty-eight colleges and universities that asked questions based on their worldviews (the

Preliminary data analysis was completed to examine the relationship between international student graduation rates and three variables: the presence of a designated office for orientation, number of topics covered during orientation, and orientation program length (number of days). The methods used for analysis include, one-way ANOVA and linear regression. The next section will discuss in detail the data collection process, and the rationale for variable and method selections. The result will be given, and the implication and limitation of the data analysis will be discussed.

The survey was divided into 10 questions, each one focused on finding the opinion of the participant, the investigation procedure used in this research started with a prediction, which indicated why international students chose Australia, After we used observation, where the participants found out how they reacted to the survey’s questions and finally the information from the survey was collected and was analyzed by participants.

Based on their research, Glass & Westmont (2014) built a hypothesis that describes a positive effect between taking cross-cultural classes and a sense of belongingness for both international and domestic students. They gleaned the date and necessary sample covered both international and domestic students collected from eight research universities provided from Global Perspective Inventory (GPI) from 2010 to 2012 (Glass & Westmont, 2014). Although they make an assumption logistically based on strict inference, their assumptions are not supposed by their statistical test model. The result of the test of hypothesis indicated that there is no distinctively relevant relationship between participating in intercultural courses and a sense of Belongingness

The United States is home to many multi-racial and multi-cultural populations. With the United States’ open and liberal policy concerning people from multicultural origins, it is inevitable that the country is the choice of destination for many international students. Although opportunities abound for people of multi-racial origins in the United States, it is undeniable that challenges also pose a threat to the smooth transition of international students to the American lifestyle. The increase in diversity in student population characteristics was mentioned in Andrade (2007) with the institutions of higher education in the United States admitting 580,000 international students from 2001-2002.

A total of 30 students from Northside Christian college were surveyed in 2016 separated into female and male. All of the students were categorised into ages; 12-13, 14-15, 16-17 to allow an unbiased investigation. This particular survey consisted of a series of 14 questions relevant and valid such as:

Since their establishments, many universities in the United States of America, as well as elsewhere in the world, have grown the diversity of their student populations in more than several aspects including religious diversity. Albeit presented obstacles, this growth represents values of tolerance and freedom that Americans have generally come to hold in high regard. If one considers narrower communities, a collegiate institution such as the University of Southern California (USC) boasts its diversity through admittance of students from countries all over the world; in fact, it holds more international students than any other private university in the United States. With countless cultures mixed in one place, USC has a religious diversity that,

The selection of the participants leads to a certain bias due to the fact that the participants were chosen based on non-probability sampling. This leads to a misrepresentation of the student body at Northeastern Illinois University. NEIU is a diverse campus that has many different types of minorities attending the university. Figure 1 shows the diversity that was conducted within our data. The graph shows that Western Anglo or Northern Europeans were the largest group interviewed, however respondents from the Africa, Middle East or South Asia were following them. There is a potential threat to validity because the

Since the topic deals with cultural adjustment of International Students, I decided first-hand experiences of cultural adjustment would give me the appropriate data to work with. Through my interviews I sought to figure out how well adjusted my interviewees are to the academic environment and different cultural aspects of the USA and how they coped or are coping with the cultural adjustment process.