Closer to home, Arizona's three major universities are home to 7,741 foreign students. Rentz says that 125 different countries are represented on the ASU campus. Amazingly, ASU has an international community of more than 5,000 people during any given year, if you count visiting scholars, immigrating, nonimmigrating, and English language students. However, only about 5 to 10 percent of the international students at ASU actually develop meaningful relationships with their American counterparts. It can be very difficult for them.
Experience can be everything.
Rentz thinks that educating scores of world leaders is important. But even more important is how these international students are treated as individuals while they are living and studying here in America. In his Newsweek article, Rentz wrote that how we treat foreign students on our campuses today can have long lasting consequences for diplomatic relations with their countries in the future. ASU's American Language and Culture Program is part of the College of Extended Education. The program is geared to assist international students to cope with American culture, slang, idioms, and academic language.