Chair Joseph asks whether accepted CUNY students receive study abroad information
Chair Joseph says every accepted CUNY student should learn about study abroad opportunities in their welcome packet. Kim Holland says this is handled campus by campus and should become a best practice, while Stephen Ferst says CSI includes study abroad in admissions materials and parent messaging.
And you create credible messengers to your students to come back and share their experiences.
When a student gets accepted to a CUNY college, any one of them, is there a study abroad in packet?
Is there something in their packet to say, welcome to CUNY, you've been accepted, and these are the opportunities that we offer as study abroad?
So that is done on a campus-by-campus basis.
The orientation involves written materials, but also encounters with people like Stephen First.
So I think that the answer is that it is more prevalent at a campus like the College of Staten Island or Queens College, Hunter College, and several others that are very active in this space.
But it really...
Is something that we should take as a best practice and make more common.
Yeah, I would like that.
If I was accepted to CUNY, I want them to tell me, hey, you have the opportunity to study here on campus, or we also offer opportunities abroad for you to study amazing, great programs I'm hearing.
Nothing beats a hands-on experience for students.
I know that for sure, and I'm sure the students you took to Uganda, this will stay with them forever, having the opportunity to work and see it in real time.
They're not reading it from a book or on a computer.
They're living it and experiencing and see the cultures and the norms.
I know that makes a difference.
My campus and my campus admissions folks, and I work very closely together, not just on international admissions, but on domestic.
We are invited and attend every open house when recruiting students.
We attend every admitted students day, every fair, everything that is open.
They ask us to come and bring our literature.
We have developed messaging direct to parents.
that they are not overly concerned, but also so that they are excited about sending their student to CUNY and that they do have these opportunities.
So yes, we have built that into all of our admissions material, and we do say, welcome to CUNY.
We try not to say, welcome to CUNY, now go away.
But we do say, welcome to CUNY, now go away.
And we give them that opportunity as quickly as possible.