EDUCATION REPORT - Foreign Student Series 17: Support Servic
EDUCATION REPORT - Foreign Student Series #17: Support Services
By Nancy Steinbach
Broadcast: Thursday, December 23, 2004
This is Gwen Outen with the VOA Special English Education Report.
This week in our Foreign Student Series, we examine support services for students who come to the United States to study. We will use a major university in the Midwest for our example.
More than three thousand foreign students attend the University of Wisconsin at its campus 1 in Madison. Most are in graduate programs; twenty-eight percent are undergraduates 2.
Marilee Sushoreba is the programs coordinator 3 for International Student Services. She says her office organizes a special meeting for new students from other countries at the beginning of each semester 4.
This meeting provides information about classes, social clubs and health services. It is also a chance to help students get to know the city of Madison and the University of Wisconsin.
Students can meet with an adviser 5 anytime during the school year. The advisers 6 try to help the students feel at ease 7 at the university. They also explain the rules and laws that govern student life.
Workers in the International Student Services office organize a number of programs throughout the school year. These are meant to help foreign students feel more at home in the United States. For example, one program links foreign students with American students. The hope is that they can help each other and also learn about their different cultures.
Another program sends foreign students to speak in local schools and at meetings of community organizations. The students talk about their homeland and discuss other subjects.
Most American colleges and universities have a similar office to serve students from other nations. These offices can help guide students through the legal steps to come to the United States. Later, they can provide support to help the students become involved in school life and make American friends.
Yet that job is not always easy. Students from one country or group may want to spend most of their free time with each other. But Marilee Sushoreba at the University of Wisconsin says she tries to let students know they have someplace to go if they need help.
Internet users 8 can learn more about American colleges and universities at educationusa.state.gov. Listen for part eighteen of our Foreign Student Series next week. Our reports are online at www.tingroom.com.
This VOA Special English Education Report was written by Nancy Steinbach. I'm Gwen Outen.
- They spoke of the old days on the campus.他们谈起昔日的校园生活。
- The campus covers an area of twenty square kilometres.这个校园占地二十平方公里。
- All undergraduates reading English attend a turtorial group each week. 所有攻读英语的本科生每周上一次导师辅导课。
- This is a course for undergraduates. 这是为本科生开的一门课。
- The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, headed by the Emergency Relief Coordinator, coordinates all UN emergency relief. 联合国人道主义事务协调厅在紧急救济协调员领导下，负责协调联合国的所有紧急救济工作。
- How am I supposed to find the client-relations coordinator? 我怎么才能找到客户关系协调员的办公室？
- A student will probably attend four or five courses during each semester.每个学生一学期可能要修四五门课程。
- I had an especially rough time during my first semester.我第一个学期的日子难受极了。
- They employed me as an adviser.他们聘请我当顾问。
- Our department has engaged a foreign teacher as phonetic adviser.我们系已经聘请了一位外籍老师作为语音顾问。
- a member of the President's favoured circle of advisers 总统宠爱的顾问班子中的一员
- She withdrew to confer with her advisers before announcing a decision. 她先去请教顾问然后再宣布决定。
- His mind was at ease and he felt confident in the future. 他心情舒畅,对前途很有信心。
- You should ease up on the child and stop scolding her. 你应该对那个孩子宽松些,不要再骂她了。