These offices usually have brochures outlining their services, offer free workshops, and are happy to send speakers to class. In examining and improving our IEP's safety component, we have come to several realizations. First, we can help students be informed, alert, and therefore safer in the U.S. Second, helping IEP students feel and be safe is an ongoing process. We need to be ever vigilant and seize opportunities to address these issues. Third, we shouldn't worry about giving simplistic advice.
Students often lack basic U.S. cultural information about safety.
Finally and most important, we need to present a balanced perspective so that students are safety conscious but not living in fear. Safety issues for international students. Johnnie Johnson Hafernik is a professor in the Department of ESL, Stephanie Vandrick is an associate professor in the Department of ESL, and Dorothy S. Messerschmitt is a professor in the Department of International and Multicultural Education, all at the University of San Francisco.