The satisfaction of OU exchange students

At OU, there are 340 exchange students to study abroad currently. Most of the students feel satisfaction about American life, especially OU campus life. How much are they satisfied by OU exchange student program exactly? To know students’ satisfaction about this program, there was the survey for exchange students.

International Student Service and two International students who are Eunyoung Bang, and Jieun Han, conducted the survey randomly to 100 exchange students at the University of Oklahoma through the exchange students program on March. Through the survey, they found out how much the university’s exchange student program has satisfied incoming students.

Through comparing with two questions that how high their expectations were before coming to OU and how high their satisfaction turned out once here, they presented student activities, academic quality, facilities, regional feature, and overall things as the categories students could evaluate. From the results, they can infer that exchange students’ satisfaction level is mostly higher than their expectation level. According to the question asked them how helpful OU’s programs were for adaptation to their environment, the results tell us that the score students gave for helpfulness was about average. In addition, they could get the positive answer about the question that was about whether the exchange students think people here – faculty, staff, and students – have contributed to exchange students’ campus life.



According to the result about the strength of OU exchange student program, exchange students were mostly satisfied with the campus facilities such as the Houston Huffman center, library, bookstores, union, and the student activities such as OU Cousin Program, host family matching program. Also, almost students are willing to recommend the OU exchange students program to other people.

Tina Henderson, Staff Assistant of Education Abroad, is said “I think, many exchange students are satisfied by our exchange program. Over the years, more prospective exchange students want to come to OU to study abroad because of great services, and the quality of the program.” She also add words that even though her thought about students’ satisfaction, she thought that they needed to listen to students’ opinion directly through the survey, and they could develop their exchange program based on this survey.

Considering all the results, current exchange students seemed to be fairly satisfied. This survey confirmed that OU’s Study Abroad program, specifically OU exchange students program, can be defined as one of the opportunities OU has, as well as things to work on. Based on this survey, ISS tries to develop their exchange program to extend the connection with other universities, and to advance the quality of the program. If you want to get more information about the change of OU exchange student program, you can visit their office or their web site anytime.

OU Exchange Student Program

Many exchange students at OU are preparing for leaving from here. However, in other countries, prospective exchange students expect to come to OU. Exchange student program at OU makes many international students have a great experience. What is the exchange student program at OU?

OU receives between 200 to 400 students from 64 countries each academic year. Currently OU connects with 170 universities in other countries. The vast majority of OU’s students come from European countries. However, the Asian countries are growing quickly as well as the Latin American countries. A pattern in the selection of majors with international students depends on the country. Many Colombian students are engineering or geophysics. The UK students are primarily business or meteorology and many of the French are Business students as well. Overall, there are as lot of Business and Engineering students, but a wide variety of others as well.

OU exchange student program was one of the first Universities in the U.S. to start reciprocal exchanges in the mid 80’s. Many universities modeled their program after OU. Also, the program at OU has had numerous employees, student assistants and study abroad alumni go to work for various universities across the U.S. as well as other countries, to help develop their study abroad program. For instance, they had one study abroad advisor who left OU and started the study abroad program at Rice University, a very prestigious university in Houston, Texas.

Tina Henderson, Staff Assistant for Education Abroad, said that “OU’s programs are one of the best in country primarily due to the personal service that we give each and every student that walks through our door. From the time they step foot on our campus, our office in involved in their daily academic and social life.” She added words that she was sure that other universities worked with students as well do, but every student who comes to OU as an exchange student walked away with the best experience of their life.

The International Students Service center manages the exchange students program. Even though OU connects with other universities now, OU tries to have connection with about 5 more universities from other countries. In addition, OU is joined with 170 universities in the world currently. However, OU expects to connect with more 5 universities in especially the Asia and the Middle East part. If you want to get more information about the OU exchange students program, you can visit their office or their web site anytime.

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The life of a journalist

Many journalism students have a dream to be a journalist However, who exactly do not know which life is for a journalist. In my case, I want to be a print reporter. If I can write some writings well, is everything okay to be a print reporter? Actually some thoughts that people think about a journalist is misunderstanding, and others can be true. We have to distinguish the difference. To get a significant insight about this, I met Judy Gibbs Robinson who is a journalism professor at OU, and is also the adviser of The Oklahoma Daily.

Judy worked for The Oklahoman. So I could listen to the real story about a journalist. Normally journalists have a bachelor of journalism. However, that is not a must. Regardless of a major, people have to get some practices for writing article or internships to be a journalist. Judy said that she did nothing before being the Oklahoman reporter, but today journalism students have to get some internship related to their job.

However, Judy expressed that curiosity is the most important ability to be a news reporter. I thought the most important ability is writing skills, but that is not true. A journalist has to keep their curiosity about everything. When a journalist keeps their curiosity about everything, he or she can want to research something for article. Above all, when a journalist has a curiosity for their article, he or she can view some issues from different standpoints.

A journalist keeps the great relationship with specific photographer, because print company has their own photographer for picture. Whenever a journalist goes to interview, he or she has to talk to them about their imagined image as a picture.

I heard getting the news source is really hard to a journalist. A journalist feels really harsh stress because of the print’s due. Especially he or she has to find something new for a article. However, Judy recommended another point of view. Whenever I felt that a new idea had run, I have to change my point of view. I must see a society, and the world with a curiosity. ‘Why do a community, and this system works like that?’ Judy said that this question is starting point to change our standpoint. After this question, he or she can make the article source bigger. When he or she can get the interviewee person, he or she has to want to get more expert persons. For example, if I want to write the article about storm, I can get a one expert of a weather reporter. However, not just that person, a journalist has to ask the phone number of another two experts like metrology professor, and city hall officer of protecting disaster. That is the way that a journalist makes their news sources bigger. Judy express that the important point to control their stress is journalist’s mind, not situation.

After her interview, I got the original question about print reporter’s life. How about the future of newspaper’s future? As we know, the circulation of newspaper declines, and even some newspapers are really hard to run their company. Unlike the past, today’s journalist must be able to do many things, not just a writing skill. Because we have to keep pace with the technology development, so we should be able to use many multimedia quite freely. That is why we take this kind of class in university.

Judy said that at the age when she worked as a journalist, she needed nothing, except a writing skill. However, she also said that today’s journalism students have to change to survive. In the past, journalists had to be an expert who can do everything, because journalist area did not specialize like today. Today, with different meaning, we should be the expert who can do everything for writing article to survive. We already know that the only solution of print journalism is the Internet. In multimedia age, a journalist has to be a print’s reporter, and also be an online reporter. For this thing, a journalist must use many computer programs like HTML, Dreamweaver to post their writing on blog or their website. Not only this thing, he or she also has to use the online editorial skills like Photoshop, and video editor.

Today’s journalist has to change for surviving. However, if we can think in a different way, that is not a big deal. In today’s age, we can make many channels to connect with our audience, and also communicate with them in two ways. Judy said that the age is changing. Even though everything is changing, one thing is never changed. The most important point to a journalist is an accuracy, and curiosity about the world. That is the only thing that guides a journalist to tell the truth to their audience.