Daily work
cultural conflict during daily work
Introduction
How to deal with students with different culture?
- Show your true interest in international students.
- Respect their cultural, including their religion, language, clothing, and food.
- Build a trust between students and yourself.
Assistant Director, International Programming (DSO)
Suzanne is responsible for cultural, academic, and social programming, study abroad, cultural and personal concerns, and non-academic advising.
She is also the staff advisor of
- Bailamos - Salsa Club,
- Bangladeshi Students' Association,
- Boxing Club,
- Nepalese Student Association,
- Saudi Student Association,
- Sri Lankan Student Association.
- How does a Muslim student reconcile prayer with class; where on this campus can he pray without ridicule or condemnation by fellow students, as well as faculty and staff?
- What about the Sunni and the Shia who are from the same country and sit in the same class as the only two international students in the class? Do they talk to each other or do they avoid one another?
- How do we handle the students who cannot eat pork or pork-related products on a campus that requires them to have a meal plan and cannot guarantee that the grill that cooks the hamburgers does not also cook hot dogs? If a pork product touches the same grill the hamburger is later cooked on, it is considered haram (sinful).
- The majority of the work with the Department of Homeland Security database;
- Verifying our students are enrolled and attending classes;
- Processing forms related to Optional Practical Training and/or Curricular Practical Training, as well as Reduced Course Load Approvals.
Structural Frame
she will make a key question before planing an event.such as:
• What is the purpose of the event?
• Who is the intended audience for the event?
• What resources are required for the event?
o Physical resources (supplies, decorations, etc.)
o Financial resources
o Human resources
• What is the timeline for planning the event?
• When and where will the event be held?
Human resource Frame
She cares about students with different culture background.
Political Frame
Make sure international orientation as well as domestic orientation
Symbolic Frame
Respect students have different cultural religion, and making students' home event in the United States.
Planing event and programming
- Five orientations per year
- Service the Intensive English Programs (IEP brings new students every eight weeks)
- Orientations are multi-day programs that encompass a much larger range of information than domestic students receive.
- Also , work with domestic and international students who want to travel abroad for the purpose of study.
Suzanne Omran