CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY, LONG BEACH
VOL. LXVIII, ISSUE 89 | APRIL 12, 2017
ENROLLMENT
International graduate enrollment drops
CSULB officials have noticed a 35 percent drop in applications from international students for graduate programs this year. By Valerie Osier News Editor
When choosing a college or study abroad program, the first question most parents ask is: “Will my child be safe there?” Cal State Long Beach officials have seen a 35 percent drop in international applicants for graduate programs this year and Associate Vice President for International Education Jeet Joshee says a negative
perception of the political climate in the United States may be playing a big role. “Safety has always been a concern … with students and parents, one of the top questions is always about safety: How safe is the campus? How safe is Long Beach? And that’s normal for any institution, I think,” Joshee said. “But what’s different this time is what’s been happening nationally, forces that we can’t control. There’s a lot of press coverage internationally. What happens here, in my view, gets covered more overseas.” He estimates that there will be also be a 15 percent drop in enrolled international graduate students this year, which will cause CSULB to lose money. International graduate students pay almost three times the tuition that domestic graduate students pay and because of that, they contribute to the overall budget more than a domestic student does. Undergraduate international applications have stayed relatively the
same as last year, with freshman and transfer applications rising 4 to 5 percent. While domestic student applications to CSULB have been closed since November, international students had until April 1 to apply to the university. According to Joshee, when news of shootings, a tense racial climate and controversial executive orders travels overseas, it often resonates with international citizens even more than it does with Americans, painting a picture that the country is dangerous throughout. “It sends a negative perception of how things are, although we know – day in and day out – it’s not that different for us here,” Joshee said. “But certainly overseas, the perception is not that great … We know that that is not our society, we know that we welcome everyone,
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CAMPUS EVENTS
Exercise is medicine at CSULB The Lauda Lecture preaches exercise as a way to make Long Beach a healthier place to live, work and play. By Sommer Dalton Staff Writer
Wellness Week 2017 is well on its way, with the Donald P. Lauda Lecture serving as the kickoff to the festivities Monday evening. The lecture was started with the hopes of using experts to engage campuses in thinking about wellness and how to go about achieving it. The panel of speakers at the lecture included doctors Robert Sallis and Monica Lounsbery, both of whom touched on topics relating to theme “exercise is medicine.” Dr. Ayla Donlin, one of the Committee Cochairs, has served as the director of the Life Fit Center at The Beach for 3 years. “Our vision for Wellness Week was for it to serve as a catalyst to raise the consciousness of wellness on campus,” Donlin said. “We want to provide specific resources for how individuals can put wellness into action on a regular bases.” The goal of the panel is to give a global perspective as well as a local perspective on issues such as health, wellness and happiness. The lecture is hoping to create connections both on campus and in the community. The Lauda Lecture was first integrated into Wellness Week back in 2013. Since then, it has taken off, sparking the interests of students, faculty and staff of all ages. “Hopefully this lecture and event can give people tangible and practical ways to start to become physically active,” Donlin said. The third speaker at the lecture, Devon Stone, a fifth year kinesiology major at Cal State Long Beach and the vice president of EIM, provided a student’s perspective on how fitness shapes not only one’s physique, but mentality
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HAPPY HUNTING
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he Student Communication Association invited students to decorate
eggs at the Academic Services building Tuesday. The decorated eggs will be hidden around the upper campus quad area today for an Easter Egg Hunt from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Student Communication Association president Jorge Rivas and junior member Enrique Rodriguez decorate their Easter eggs at the SCA event Tuesday.