FEATURE PHOTO: Studying over summer
Raine Zhu, Photographer
May 14, 2019
Portia Mensah, a graduate student majoring in economics, studies in Booth Library for her international economics course Tuesday afternoon. Mensah said she is an international student from Ghana and will go back to the country after graduation, but not this summer. She said she is taking three credits f...
Career Services to host series of workshops for international students
Staff Report
January 22, 2019
Career Services will host an informational workshop for international students about services they offer on Monday at 10 a.m. in the Arcola/Tuscola Room of the Martin Luther King Jr. University Union. This will be the first of a four-part series of workshops for international students. The workshop was cre...
Office helps international students at Eastern
Brooke Schwartz, News Editor
November 12, 2018
As the rest of Eastern takes a week to celebrate international education, one office on campus continues with business as usual, for celebrating international students is part of its daily job. The Office of International Students and Scholars deals with foreign exchange students and study abroad progr...
International student enrollment numbers take a hit
Cassie Buchman, Editor in Chief
January 24, 2018
Correction: This story has been edited to reflect that Brenda Cuellar actually went to Colombia and Brazil with the purpose of recruiting international students. The News regrets the error. Despite strides made in Eastern’s Spring 2018 enrollment numbers, there is one area where numbers have dro...
Panelists open up about immigration struggle
Cassie Buchman, Editor in Chief
November 7, 2017
When Claude Abdoulaye-Pedila, a psychology major, was born in the Congo, her parents had a life-changing decision to make. Because her grandpa was the mayor in her hometown in the Congo during a civil war, her family was in danger. “If you’re family’s a part of the government, you’re going...
Korean students share experiences
Kennedy Nolen, Multicultural Reporter
September 21, 2017
Editor’s Note: This article is the first in a series about international students at Eastern. One South Korean student’s love for baseball made coming to the United States for a degree an easy choice, since the sport is America’s pastime. Senior history major Seonghwan Kim is from the fifth lar...
International students get used to life in different country
Manuel Almanza, Contributing Writer
April 10, 2017
For international students, each with their own cultures and values, entering a new country and university can be intimidating. Despite this, some students have found acceptance from others during their time at Eastern. After going to church one Sunday morning, Jeonghyun Kim, a junior sociology...
International students go through steps to find jobs
Tori Harrison, Contributing Writer
April 6, 2017
Like many others, international students have jobs while studying at Eastern. Unlike students from the United States, however, international students have a list of things that must be done before they can work for the university. To date, there are 430 international students who come...
International students affected by executive order
Kennedy Nolen, Multicultural reporter
January 31, 2017
Following President Donald Trump’s executive order suspending immigration from seven Middle Eastern countries, international students from these areas are being asked not to travel within or outside the United States by airplane until further notice. This information was relayed in an email sent...
Column: Reflection on coming to America: part two
Kehinde Abiodun, Staff Reporter
January 30, 2017
I must mention that the Charleston community was welcoming to international students. On the first day of orientation at Eastern, Salisbury, a church Madison avenue, hosted new students to an assortment of American dishes in its palatial space. The following day, the Newman Center repeated the same...
Column: Reflection on coming to America: part one
Kehinde Abiodun, Staff Reporter
January 10, 2017
It is exactly a year since I arrived in America in the cold wind of winter, after nearly 9000 miles of traveling. My journey was inspired by a mix of curiosity, a desire for an American education and a longing to try the world for myself. I feared that as the years went by, I might lose the verve...
Islamic students open up about religion and culture
Kennedy Nolen, Multicultural Reporter
January 9, 2017
Even though they are in the United States, students from Saudi Arabia are still finding ways to practice their culture and Islamic faith. Sunni Islam is the predominant religion in Saudi Arabia. Fatimah Alqurini, a freshman biological sciences major who came to the United States from...
