The American University Meets the Pacific Century

The American University Meets the Pacific Century Nancy Abelmann Soo Ah Kwon Tim Liao Adrienne Lo

Changing demographics Number of international undergraduate students

CHANGING demographics Number of international undergraduate students

AUPC • University of Illinois as a contact zone • Focus on Colleges of Engineering and Business • Students from China and South Korea, faculty, domestic students, campus services, etc. • Survey + ethnographic fieldwork (interviews and observations)

Research sites

Media discourse

Social media

Online research environment

Findings: Global marketplace World rankings in engineering/technology and computer science • MIT • Stanford • Berkeley • University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign • Georgia Tech • University of Texas, Austin • University of Michigan • Carnegie Mellon • Penn State • UC San Diego • 10. USC

History Chinese students at the U of I (1911) Tsinghua University

trajectories

INT’L STUDENTS • Variety of pathways to the U of I • Class variation • Importance of co-ethnic organizations • Awareness of differences in tuition UIUC-CSSA 2011 New Student Handbook 新生手册发布

INT’L STUDENTS • “How do Americans make friends?” • Relations with Asian Americans • Disappointment with downstate location

Domestic students • Cautious about sounding racist • Int’l students improve the quality of the U of I • Sincere interest in getting to know them

Domestic students • Wealth • “Taking seats” from deserving domestic students • Language deficiencies • Relations with Asian Americans, Latinos, etc.

Domestic students

faculty • Keenly aware of demographic shift • “It just happened” • Faculty/students not prepared (two commissions) • Change teaching methods, expectations, services? • Concern that no one office/person is responsible for these students

SURVEY : Target Population & Objects • All undergraduate students currently registered in the 3 Colleges of Business, Engineering, and LAS (Liberal Arts and Sciences) • Online survey launched on March 5, 2012 • 4 consistent and comparable modules, designed for Chinese, Korean, domestic, and other international undergraduate students • Questions about family background, application process, social interaction on campus, satisfaction with education & campus life, post-graduation plans, etc.

SURVEY: Social Interaction—Networks

SURVEY: Social Interaction--Questions

SURVEY: Social Interaction—Anchoring Vignettes

Preliminary results: Home ownership

Preliminary Results: Friendship

The American University Meets the Pacific Century

The American University Meets the Pacific Century

Presentation Transcript

CHAPTER 28 THE AMERICAN CENTURY

The American University in Cairo

BelSU the university of the XXI century

The University for the 21 st Century

American Society in the 18th Century

THE AMERICAN CENTURY

THE AMERICAN CENTURY

THE AMERICAN CENTURY

University of the Pacific!

University of the Pacific!

American Life at The Turn of the Century

The University of the South Pacific

American Life in the Seventeenth Century

American Life in the Seventeenth Century

The Project for The New American Century

American Imperialism at the Turn of the Century

The 21 st Century University

University of the Pacific: PACT Implementation

Pacific Century CyberWorks (PCCW)

American Life in the Seventeenth Century

University of the Pacific

Physics meets the Virtual University