Nancy Abelmann Soo Ah Kwon Tim Liao Adrienne Lo THE AMERICAN UNIVERSITY MEETS THE PACIFIC CENTURY

CHANGING DEMOGRAPHICS Number of international undergraduate students

CHANGING DEMOGRAPHICS Number of international undergraduate students

 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) AUPC

RESEARCH SITES

MEDIA DISCOURSE

SOCIAL MEDIA

ONLINE RESEARCH ENVIRONMENT

FINDINGS: GLOBAL MARKETPLACE 1.MIT 2.Stanford 3.Berkeley 4.University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign 5.Georgia Tech 6.University of Texas, Austin 7.University of Michigan 8.Carnegie Mellon 9.Penn State 10.UC San Diego 10. USC World rankings in engineering/technology and computer science

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

TRAJECTORIES

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

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

 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 FACULTY

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