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IFO Offers Free Food and Fun

There’s a place on campus where you can spend Tuesday nights feasting on a free dinner while helping our international students adjust to life at UCA. The IFO Conversation Clubmeets at 6 p.m. each Tuesday at the Baptist Collegiate Ministry. A different church in Conway provides the meal each week. At their first event last [...]

Crowd Awed by Fashions

The  crowd in Ida Waldran Auditorium cheered as six Chinese female students posed onstage in lovely silk cheongsams during in the International Fashion Show last night. The fashion show, designed to introducing the various international cultures on campus, featured dozens of international students who paraded the stage in traditional costumes from different countries. Although the show [...]

International Fashions on Display

We have a lot of international students representing a wide array of cultures on our campus. Tonight, they will gather at Ida Waldran Auditorium to share the native fashions of their countries at the annual International Fashion Show. You will see an interesting array of costumes, colors and cultures. Sara Parrott, coordinator of international student [...]

International Education Week

There are events scheduled for almost every day this week to celebrate International Education Week. The U.S. Department of State and U. S. Department of Education sponsor the week each year to promote the cultural and educational benefits of international exchange and study abroad programs. Our Division of International Engagement is presenting the programs on campus. Here [...]

OIP Provides Hay Ride

Have you ever been on a hay ride? If you said no, then tonight is your chance to climb into the back of an open truck or wagon lined with hay and journey over to Guy for a memorable experience. The Office of International Programs is organizing the old-fashioned hay ride and it is free for everyone. [...]

Staying in America

Our international students don’t always have to leave the country when they graduate and the Division of International Engagement is making sure they know it. The division is offering Optional Practical Training (OPT) at 2 p.m. today in Room 311 of Torreyson West. The program teaches international students about grants that are available that will allow them to remain in [...]

Students Rally to Help Japan

Several student groups on campus are raising money for victims of the earthquake and tsunami in Japan and university offices are offering extra services to the 80 or so Japanese exchange students on campus. The Greenhouse raised $880 Thursday night with a pancake fundraiser. They usually serve free pancakes on Thursday nights but they charged [...]

International Fashion Show Tonight

You may have heard of a cheongsam or a sari but when was the last time you saw someone clad in an elegant cheongsam standing in front of you? National Geographic Channel and Discovery Channel don’t count. Here’s your chance. There is an international fashion show at 7 p.m. today in Ida Waldron Auditorium. It’s [...]

OIP Holds Town Halls for Students

The Office of International Programs is using town hall meetings this semester as a way to better assist the more then 600 international students on our campus. The meetings are designed to provide a public forum for international students to discuss their problems with administrators and each other.  The next one is at 6 p.m. [...]

IEP Could Use Your Help

UCA receives a fresh batch of international students every semester. These students are a long way from home and face a lot of challenges. One of them is mastering the English language. You can help. It just takes one hour a week and all you have to do is have a conversation. Who knows? You [...]