“Where is home for you?” After being asked this question, Daniel Chae, seated in the Chimes office, laughed. “That’s the ultimate question,” he said. “Geographically, I would say my home is...
College orientation generally follows the same pattern every year. “Students were nervous at first, then you get comfortable…then you make –– kind of –– your friends,” said Hagyeong Park,...
As a teenager, Freshta Tori Jan fled to the U.S. from Afghanistan. She and her family were facing severe persecution from the Taliban because they were Hazaras, a minority ethnic group.
Once in the...
Due to major delays in visa processing in their home countries, more than 20 international students were unable to start classes with their peers at Calvin this fall.
The admissions office is currently...
Senior Debora Haede remembers the rollercoaster of emotions she went through the day Calvin announced that classes would go online for the rest of the semester. “When am I going to see these people ever...
While domestic students stressed over the SAT or ACT, international students from non-English speaking countries studied for those and their own alphabet soup of standardized English language testing....
Last week, Calvin participated International Education Week, a nationally recognized week implemented by the U.S. Department of State and the U.S. Department of Education. Over the week, students organized...
Do international students have a disproportionate amount of work to do with core literature classes when it comes to reading assignments? Senior English major Claire Lambert is currently exploring this...
Over 10 percent of the student body here at Calvin is considered international, and in many cases, the struggles of the international student are often overlooked. A lack of intentional dialogue...
A new report issued by the Cultural Intelligence Center (CQC) found that, while Calvin has “some level of commitment to diversity and inclusion, the college doesn’t consistently put that commitment...
A 2013 Open Doors Report by the Institute of International Education has ranked Calvin College third nationally for its high enrollment of international students and fifth for study-abroad students.
According...
A quick search of students' last names reveals that “Kim” — a common Korean surname — is now the most common last name at Calvin, topping popular Dutch last names such as DeVries and DeYoung, a...