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

2. CHANGING DEMOGRAPHICS Number of international undergraduate students

3. CHANGING DEMOGRAPHICS Number of international undergraduate students

4.  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

6. RESEARCH SITES

7. MEDIA DISCOURSE

8. SOCIAL MEDIA

9. ONLINE RESEARCH ENVIRONMENT

10. 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

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

12. TRAJECTORIES

13.  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

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

15.  Cautious about sounding racist  Int’l students improve the quality of the U of I  Sincere interest in getting to know them DOMESTIC STUDENTS

16.  Wealth  “Taking seats” from deserving domestic students  Language deficiencies  Relations with Asian Americans, Latinos, etc. DOMESTIC STUDENTS

20.  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

21. 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.

22. SURVEY: Social Interaction—Networks

23. SURVEY: Social Interaction--Questions

24. SURVEY: Social Interaction—Anchoring Vignettes

25. Preliminary results: Home ownership

26. Preliminary Results: Friendship