How well does your college collect and utilize data on foreign-educated immigrants?
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Question 1 of 4
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Does your admissions department keep data on whether your immigrant students have a college background or qualifications from their home country?
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Congratulations! If your college collects this information you can:
- Make sure foreign-educated immigrant students move forward with their education
- Give a student credit or advanced standing for previous coursework that is equivalent to your college’s curriculum and standards
- Advise students on career pathways that build on their foreign qualifications and experience
- Track the academic success of foreign-educated students as a subset of the immigrant student population
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You can fix this!
Consider adding this question to your college’s admissions application to collect this information. If your college collects this information you can:- Make sure foreign-educated immigrant students move forward with their education
- Give a student credit or advanced standing for previous coursework that is equivalent to your college’s curriculum and standards
- Advise students on career pathways that build on their foreign qualifications and experience
- Track the academic success of foreign-educated students as a subset of the immigrant student population
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Question 2 of 4
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Does your college collect any data on the educational background or professional experience of the students enrolled in your ESL programs?
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Great!
Using this data, can you identify ESL students who could qualify for college career pathway programs that build on their foreign qualification and experience?Incorrect
Consider adding these questions to your ESL intake form:
- “Did you ever attend college or university in another country?”
- “Did you graduate or complete a degree? If so, which degree?”
In the meantime, how could you connect the foreign-educated professionals in your ESL programs to your college’s academic and career pathways programs?
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Question 3 of 4
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Is data on the academic and professional background of ESL students accessible to your Admissions Office?
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Excellent!
Now bridge the gap: suggest that your Admissions Office use this data to recruit capable and highly-motivated ESL students for admission to your college programsIncorrect
How could you raise awareness of this issue and advocate for change?
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Does your college’s Institutional Research Department gather data about the educational backgrounds of credit and non-credit students?
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Good start!
Use this information to monitor how foreign-educated students access your college, track their success and plan for programs that best address their needs.See how Miami Dade College does this.
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What can you do to change this?
Foreign-educated immigrant students typically straddle the credit/non-credit divide. Having data for half the foreign-educated student population is half the picture. A key partner in the data-gathering and analytic effort is your college’s Institutional Research (IR) Department.
See how Miami Dade College dives for data and utilizes it.
