Stephen Ferst cites CSI's 10% study abroad goal; Dinowitz supports targets
Ferst says many campuses have goals and notes CSI aims for 10% of graduates to have a substantial international experience. Dinowitz says concrete goals like 10% would help engage students and make stronger funding pitches.
I can add that I think many of our campuses have goals.
So I represent the College of Staten Island.
I'm the director there.
And we do have a 10% of the– we have a goal that 10% of the students who walk across our graduation stage at our ceremony will have had a substantial international experience.
That would place us–
squarely in the top quartile of public education, right, of students who study abroad.
That's great.
Now we've got to get the other colleges to compete with that.
Well, so we've got Hunter.
That's doing great.
We've got a number of other colleges.
What we will say is that the senior colleges that benefit from programs like the Macaulay Honors Program and other schools tend to have higher percentages because of some of those programs and because of those student populations.
But yes, those are goals, and I think that that would be shared by my colleagues across campuses.
Around 10%.
Again, placing us near the top.
I would share that I think having specific goals like 10% or increasing those goals year after year would be
a step forward, I think, in engaging more students in the study abroad program, which is widely recognized as being a positive experience.
Whether it gets you to be a surgeon or it tells you, gets you not to be a surgeon.