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Building a Community for First-year International Students

International students are a specific group that requires a different approach and attention than locals. Given the different student backgrounds and cultural differences, it is challenging for universities to integrate those students into local communities. But what if international students create their community and join forces with already integrated expats?

EFYE2024 – Copenhagen

Show-and-tell | Academic integration/belonging | Social integration/belonging

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Are We Doing Belonging TO Our Students? – Findings from an Action Research PhD on Student Belonging Agency with New Undergraduates

This conference session delves into findings from a quasi-experimental, longitudinal and mixed-methods action research PhD focused on the links between belonging and student agency. Whilst many factors affecting belonging are outside of students’ control, this session will explore how we can empower students to take action to belong.

EFYE2024 – Copenhagen, Parallel session 7

Presentation/Paper session | Academic integration/belonging | Social integration/belonging

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Building Welcoming FYE for International Degree Students: Case Tampere University

Our presentation outlines the Tampere University international degree students’ onboarding process on- and offline from acceptance to the University to the end of the first year of studies. Get practical tips, hear about our onboarding practices, and gain ideas and insights into creating, developing and evaluating an inclusive FYE for international students.

EFYE2024 – Copenhagen

Academic integration/belonging | Social integration/belonging

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Starting@WU: Onboarding in large scale – informing, connecting and activating first semester students

How can community building succeed in a huge HEI with 3.500 bachelor beginners? This is our challenge at WU Vienna. Starting@WU merges support and community elements for freshmen to a comprehensive onboarding program. Our presentation focuses on the pillars of the program, provides insights into evaluations, and outlines the further development.

EFYE2024 – Copenhagen

Presentation/Paper session | Academic integration/belonging | Social integration/belonging

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From herding cats to closing ranks: Staff collaboration in designing peer-to-peer services for disparate student groups

Delivering a vibrant and effective first year experience for disparate target groups necessitates collaboration with multiple service units – some of which may have other priorities. This workshop is all about engaging with assorted stakeholders and creating a tangible product without losing that all-important guiding vision – or one’s sanity!

EFYE2024 – Copenhagen

Workshop | Academic integration/belonging | Social integration/belonging | Personal mental health/well-being

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The Impact of GRIT scores and Learning Development interventions upon retention and progression – one year on: what have we learnt?

This session will be of interest to academic and professional service staff who interact with first year students as a 5 minute self-reported questionnaire helped to indicate a relationship between grit score, Learning Development engagement and retention and progression of each participant (n= 424).

EFYE2024 – Copenhagen

Presentation/Paper session | Academic integration/belonging

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Tools for improvement – how SURFY can help you to better support and guide students

Are you wondering how to better support students? So were we… And now we have a database. This session introduces a database with good practices on student support. The database can help you to design and evaluate student support and guidance. It is one result of the Erasmus+ project SURFY (https://surfy-project.eu/).

EFYE2024 – Copenhagen

Show-and-tell | Academic integration/belonging | Social integration/belonging | Personal mental health/well-being | Financial needs

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