{"id":64224,"date":"2017-08-25T14:28:08","date_gmt":"2017-08-26T00:28:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=64224"},"modified":"2019-03-11T14:22:40","modified_gmt":"2019-03-12T00:22:40","slug":"international-students-youarewelcomehere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2017\/08\/25\/international-students-youarewelcomehere\/","title":{"rendered":"International students told #YouAreWelcomeHere"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 2<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/span><\/span><div class=\"responsive-video-wrap\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"676\" height=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Dx18Z4G6b7o?rel=0&amp;showinfo=0\" title=\"YouTube video player\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><em>Editor&#8217;s note: This story was updated on December 4, 2017.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/manoa.hawaii.edu\">University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> at M\u0101noa <\/a>is part of a nationwide campaign to embrace <a href=\"http:\/\/manoa.hawaii.edu\/international\/international_students\/\">international students<\/a>. The marketing and social media effort, #YouAreWelcomeHere, features more than 200 universities and colleges.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/manoa-international-students-260x180.jpg\" alt=\"Students talking to each other outside\" width=\"260\" height=\"180\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-64254\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/manoa-international-students-260x180.jpg 260w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/manoa-international-students.jpg 676w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 260px) 100vw, 260px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The campaign started in November 2016 as a way to make international students feel welcome and reassure them that U.S. colleges and universities are friendly, safe and committed to international student development.<\/p>\n<p>In <abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">UH<\/abbr> M\u0101noa\u2019s video, a diverse group of approximately 50 <abbr>UH<\/abbr> community members from 17 different countries exclaims: &ldquo;You are welcome here!&rdquo; It demonstrates the university\u2019s commitment to providing a positive international program experience.<\/p>\n<p>Countries represented in the video include New Zealand, China, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, France, Russia, Indonesia, Malaysia, Slovenia, Spain, Netherlands, Germany, Thailand, India, Serbia and Latvia.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;<abbr>UH<\/abbr> M\u0101noa has always been a campus that welcomes students from abroad. The cultural and ethnic diversity of the university and the state of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> represents great strengths, particularly in the current climate of heightened tension around immigration and international relations,&rdquo; said <strong>R. Andy Sutton<\/strong>, School of Pacific and Asian Studies dean and assistant vice chancellor for international and exchange programs. &ldquo;We\u2019re proud to contribute to the national movement &lsquo;YouAreWelcomeHere&rsquo; to express to the world that both students and faculty from all around the globe are welcome at <abbr>UH<\/abbr> M\u0101noa.<\/p>\n<p>The direct economic impact of international students for <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span>, according to a 2017 survey by the state <a href=\"http:\/\/dbedt.hawaii.gov\/\">Department of Business, Economic Development and Tourism<\/a>, was an estimated $225.3 million. The other economic benefits, according to the survey, include $484 million added to the state\u2019s total economic output, $32 million in state taxes generated, $192 million in household earnings and 5,093 jobs supported. <\/p>\n<p>As of late August 2017, <abbr>UH<\/abbr> M\u0101noa had 938 international students, 519 of them graduate students, enrolled with student visas, and hopes to welcome more. 19 of these international students are from the six affected countries listed in the travel ban. For the 2018 spring semester, which begins in January 2018, the graduate division has already received 45 applications from international students, with three of those applications coming from nationals from the six affected countries. <\/p>\n<p>The video was commissioned by the M\u0101noa International Education Committee and produced by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.manoanow.org\/uhpro\/\"><abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">UH<\/abbr> Productions<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Visit the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youarewelcomehereusa.org\/\">campaign website<\/a> for more information. <\/p>\n<p>As of early December 2017, the graduate division is considering five applications for the 2018 spring semester from nationals of six of the countries affected by the latest travel ban. Those countries are Iran, Libya, Syria, Yemen, Somalia and Chad. An offer of admissions to a national of one of these affected countries is also pending.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">UH<\/abbr> community members express commitment to providing a positive international program experience with the words, &ldquo;You are welcome here!&rdquo;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":64254,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[134,935,9,56],"class_list":["post-64224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","tag-international","tag-international-student","tag-uh-manoa","tag-video-2","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/manoa-international-students.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64224"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64224\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75060,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64224\/revisions\/75060"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}