FY-07 Charges to International Affairs Committee

Approved by SenEx: 6/8/06

Standing Charges

1. Work cooperatively with appropriate units to guide initiatives and make recommendations to governance that help improve the recruitment, retention and success of international students at KU. These initiatives may include, but are not limited to:

a. Recruitment and Retention: (1) Identifying prospective students and guiding them to information that will help them assess the University’s ability to meet their needs. (2) Making recommendations for increasing the opportunities for international students, staff, and faculty to interface with Kansas residents. (3) Disseminating information about successful recruitment strategies to faculty, staff, and students who travel abroad, with accompanying recruitment materials for their distribution.

b. Financial: (1) Exploring ways to strengthen financial support for international students at KU, such as first-year fellowships or TA assistantships. (2) Exploring methods of providing fiscal support for faculty and students who travel abroad and who agree to contribute time to recruitment efforts.

c. Academic: (1) Working with the Applied English Center and others units involved with helping international students succeed, both as students and as teaching or research assistants. (2) Reviewing what is being accomplished at present and making recommendations for increasing proactive efforts to explain KU enrollment criteria to potential or existing international applicants.

2. Work cooperatively with the appropriate units to develop strategies for encouraging KU faculty, staff, and students to pursue an international experience. Simultaneously, explore whether there are measures in place to evaluate the impact of faculty, staff, and student international experiences and, if not, work with the appropriate units to develop a strategy for evaluating this impact.

3. Provide input as needed to the units that evaluate prospective students for admission, such as in methods of assessing English proficiency.

4. Submit to SenEx:

a. The approved minutes of each meeting.

b. Recommendations for action as they are approved by the committee.

c. A final report by 4/1/07, identifying the committee’s actions taken in response to these charges and the committee’s recommendations for the following year.

Additional Charge

5. In cooperation with the appropriate units, prepare a survey of the Big 12 schools about the details of their recruiting budgets, their protocols for involving faculty and staff in recruitment efforts, and their strategies for the support and retention of international students, particularly with regard to helping students secure financial support (e.g. obtaining federal identification numbers in a timely fashion).