WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 27, 2010 UI gaining int’l regard UI alumni from abroad are resources for students interested in attending. By NORA HEATON
[email protected] One freshman from Hungary learned about the UI through his grandparents. A Chinese student heard about the campus through a friend. Another discovered it on the Internet. Some international students find the UI on their own, but university officials are hoping increased recruitment efforts MOHAMMED ALHADAB / THE DAILY IOWAN abroad will help them. Iowa City firefighter Zach Hickman demonstrates a rapid-deployment craft on Tuesday. Iowa City firefighters receive water- and ice-rescue training once Recent cuts to state funding have every year. prompted school officials to seek more nonresidents, who pay higher tuition rates, to help subsidize costs. Increasingly, this means looking overseas. Recruitment teams use numerous Firefighters strategies, said Downing Thomas, the dean of International Programs. UI repre- sentatives travel abroad to visit college fairs and high schools — particularly those that prepare students well or those at prepare for rescues which UI recruiters have had past success. Officials provide informational brochures and websites in numerous lan- guages. In addition, UI alumni who hail Iowa City firefighters will conduct from certain countries and have returned water and ice training next month. there sometimes serve as resources for prospective students. By JOSEPH BELK
[email protected] SEE RECRUITMENT, 3 irefighter Will Shanahan strapped on a bulky ice-rescue suit the color of an orange traffic cone. Other firefighters inflated an emergency craft. 1 The gear, used just last weekend to save a 1 ⁄2 year-old yellow lab, is the Iowa City Fire Depart- Planning key Fment’s arsenal for water and ice rescues.