Promoting International Student Success Through First-Year Seminar Courses
On-Demand Training
Challenge
This webinar will address the barriers to international student academic and social integration during the first year of college and the factors contributing to their college success. We will also address the challenge of designing and implementing First-Year Seminar (FYS) courses within institutions aiming to use this particular intervention to promote their international students' success.
Key Takeaway
Participants will learn about the most prominent challenges to international students' successful academic and social integration into higher education institutions in the United States. Participants will learn the most effective practices for designing new or redesigning existing first-year seminar courses for international students.
Overview
International students in American colleges and universities encounter many barriers to their successful academic and social transition. Higher education professionals are dedicating considerable efforts to supporting their international student population by accounting for a wide variety of factors contributing to their educational experiences and opportunities in their host institutions, communities, and cultures. However, research and practice efforts are still limited regarding supporting, specifically first-year international students. Simultaneously, the importance of the first-year experience in undergraduate students' academic success has been best illustrated through the extensive first-year programming implemented in American colleges and universities. In that regard, the First-Year Seminar (FYS) courses remain among the most frequently utilized and most effective interventions with research-proven effects for promoting student academic performance, retention, graduation. Still, insufficient attention has been devoted to how this powerful intervention can promote international students' success during their first year of college and beyond. Informed by the contemporary research and practice efforts and the years of the authors' own research, the webinar will synthesize significant academic and social challenges encountered by international first-year students. These barriers will then be discussed through the lenses of documented benefits of participation in FYS courses. The webinar will propose models for designing new FYS courses for international students or redesigning the existing seminars to meet incoming international students' needs.
Objectives
- Demonstrate an understanding of the most prominent challenges encountered by international students transitioning to higher education institutions in the United States (including public and private, 2 and 4-year, small, mid-sized, and large colleges and universities).
- Investigate and assess underlying barriers to a successful academic and social integration of international students in their institutions, focusing on undergraduate and first-year students
- Construct and develop various effective practices for designing new or redesigning existing first-year seminar courses for international students
- Produce and propose recommendations for coordinating cross-campus efforts between first-year seminar programs, first-year experience offices, international students services, and other campus units involved in the transition and adjustment of international students during their first year of college
- Faculty
- Student Services/Affairs
- All offices involved in first-year programming
- International student services and units
- Any educator interested in learning more about supporting international students
International students are more vulnerable than their domestic peers in many aspects of their academic and social experiences during the first-year of college. As such, the importance of early intervention in supporting their educational and cultural transition cannot be overstated.
Masha Krsmanovic holds a Ph.D. degree in Higher Education and Policy Studies from the University of Central Florida. Her current appointment at this institution involves teaching First-Year Seminar courses and conducting research in the areas of first-year experience and international students. Her doctoral dissertation examined international students’ academic experiences in first-year seminar courses in the United States. Her scholarly contributions and publications are focused on the internationalization of U.S. higher education, college student development and success, and higher education diversity. She is the recipient of 2019 Excellence in Teaching Award by the UCF Office of First-Year Experience. Prior to her career in higher education, Dr. Krsmanovic spent more than 10 years in an international setting where she designed and facilitated numerous classes, programs, trainings, and workshops in the fields of TESOL, adult, and continuous education.
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