Raise Awareness on Your Campus About These Students
Your college doesn’t need a host of new counselors to advise foreign-educated immigrants. Identify advocates for immigrant students among your entire faculty (including adjuncts), college librarians, student support services staff, academic and career advising departments, and workforce development staff. These champions of immigrants can help raise awareness, promote services, and build collaborative networks both on and off-campus. Create email list-serves to keep these champions up-to-date on both credit and non-credit programs on your campus and to provide a vehicle for ongoing idea sharing and brainstorming. Offer periodic staff development workshops that tap into WES Global Talent Bridge’s Pathways to Success seminars and its professional development webinars.