The Office of International Student Services’ purpose is to increase, in a steady and sustainable way, the number of international students enrolled at Butte College and to provide services and support to promote their academic success and personal growth.
In order to meet our goal of increasing the number of international students on our campus each year, it has been incumbent upon Butte College to actively recruit in foreign countries. In countries that we are unable to visit, Butte uses web marketing, and other marketing tools to reach out to prospective students. The other major activity of the department is to provide international students with special services such as help with housing, special admissions help, an orientation designed for new international students and specialized academic and immigration advising.
We are currently evaluating our SLO’s to ensure continuous improvement of the program. We are creating a survey of student satisfaction to identify areas of success and improvement.
The International Program supports the college in meeting its student achievement standards by recruiting students to the campus and providing retention services when they enroll. We work with the Center for Academic Success to provide custom workshops and academic services to support international students. We also work with Transfer Counseling to provide workshops to support international students interested in transferring to a university. This supports the improvement of Completion Rates, Degree/Certificate Completion and Transfer.
Enhancing a Culture of Inclusiveness
International students enrich the campus and provide a global perspective on campus.
- Continue to pursue relationships with English language schools in Korea and China. This is still being pursued.
- Create a focus group of international and domestic students to determine ways to implement “friendship program” with same-age students. This is still being pursued.
1. Expand recruitment efforts to new markets.
2. Expand ways to increase enrollment of international students.
Strategy 1 - Increase and Diversify Recruitment
Diversifying international student enrollment requires diversifying marketing and recruitment models/modes. To enable the Butte College program to do this we must invest in new strategies (web based, expand to new countries, partial fee waivers.) The increase in marketing and recruitment also allows the program to grow its number of educational oversea partners and alumni network so as to sustain program growth.
The International Program budget supports the salaries of its full time employees and percentages of supporting positions. Salaries and benefits account for 77% of the expenditures. The constant increase in benefits and salary step increases ultimately decreases our operating budget which limits the amount of recruitment and outreach that can take place each year. Without an increase in student enrollment the recruitment budget will continues to decrease.
International Program Budget - $389K (50% of Paid Non-Resident Fees for F-1 visa students)
| Original Priority | Program, Unit, Area | Resource Type | Account Number | Object Code | One Time Augment | Ongoing Augment |
| Description | Supporting Rationale | Potential Alternative Funding Sources | Prioritization Criteria | |||
| 1 | International Programs | Operating Expenses | 11.000.700.1.649004 | 55890 | $0.00 | $35,000.00 |
| International Student Fee Waiver of Resident Tuition Cost | The ability to market a fee waiver for first semester international students would greatly increase the Butte College International Program marketing and recruitment potential. To offer this incentive/promise to a student they will be more likely to select our college to attend. It would increase inquiries about our admission, allow our program to answer “yes” to "do you offer international scholarships" and offer a program most of our competitors are not able to offer. Our proposal is as follows: Fall 2018 – 40 new students a $500 fee waiver = $20,000 Spring 2019 – 30 new students a $500 fee waiver = $15,000 |
|
|
|||