DEI & International Students: Strategies For Attracting, Retaining & Growing This Student Population

Description  Challenge - Dealing with diversity in your international student population International students are often initially lonely and homesick, with a sense of alienation. Their solution may be to gravitate to other students from their home country or region to the exclusion of other international and American students. Remarkably, one recent study found that 80 percent of international students studying annually in the U.S. never enter an American home during their entire time in the country. Earlier this year, many prominent U.S. universities reported that their student populations were surging as COVID-19 retreated as an impediment to international travel. Serving this surging population in significant ways beyond delivering quality education is crucial to attracting, retaining, and growing this increasingly substantial component of our student bodies. Key Takeaway Participants will take away an enhanced sensitivity to the particular problems posed by a highly di