FEATURED ARTICLE: Initiating an International Recruitment Program at a Large Research University
By C. Eugene Allen
 The University of Minnesota-Twin Cities (UMTC), one of the largest campuses in the United States with almost 51,000 students, was facing a steep decline in international undergraduates. International freshmen decreased by almost 50 percent between fall 2001 and 2004. ...
As a result, in 2005 UMTC set a goal that international students would make up 5 percent of its undergraduate student body in a decade and made a recurring budget commitment of $100,000 for an undergraduate recruitment program. (The re-establishment of an ESL program and a new lower tuition structure would come later.) Starting out with no previous history of international recruitment, no staff assigned to the project, and a small budget, the university brought together an ad hoc team from across the campus to draft a strategic plan and make a commitment to work together.
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The theme of the Spring 2008 issue of IIENetworker Magazine is: