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Policies for Chinese Studies, Effective Fall 2003
To:
All Academic Advisors
From: Wei Hong and Daniel Hsieh, Associate Professors of Chinese and Coordinator
of Chinese Language Program
Date: 03/07/2003
Dear All Academic Advisors:
Recently, there has been some confusion on how to guide students to take
Chinese courses at Purdue. The confusion centers primarily on the awarding
of credits, the Placement Test, and what kind of students can or can not
take what courses and so on. This memo intends to clear up such confusions.
Following is a list of Asian countries/regions with their official languages,
and the guidelines as to what courses can be taken by students from those
regions.
Asian countries and regions with their official languages.
- The People's Republic
of China: official language---Chinese (Mandarin)
- Taiwan: official language---Chinese
(Mandarin)
- Hong Kong: official language---Chinese (Mandarin)
- Indonesia: official language---Indonesian
- Malaysia:
official language---Malay
- Singapore: official language---English,
Malay
- South Korea: official language---Korean
- Japan:
official language---Japanese
Due to their native proficiency
in Chinese, students from the People's Republic of China,
Taiwan and Hong Kong are not permitted to take any language
courses (100-level to 400-level). However, they are welcome
to take our literature and calligraphy courses. Hong
Kong students may take CHNS 401/402 (starting Fall 2003)
and CHNS 220 (Advanced Chinese Conversation). No credits
for lower level courses will be issued if they complete
CHNS 401/402. Students from these regions who immigrated
to the United States at a young age (12 years or younger)
may take language courses, but before signing up for
any of them, they must take the Placement Test to determine
their current level in Chinese.
Students from countries
4-8 are encouraged to take any language courses to fulfill
their language requirements. In addition, if they have
Chinese language background from home or school, they
may sign up for higher level courses after taking the Placement
Test.
Placement Test:
The Chinese Placement Test is given three times per academic
year: August, October and March. Please call the Department
of Foreign Languages and Literatures, Professors Wei
Hong or Daniel Hsieh for the date and location of the
test. This test does not belong to FLL's central testing
system such as Placement Tests for Spanish, French, German or Japanese.
Therefore, please do not advise students to go to the FLL Placement
Test, but rather to the Chinese Placement Test.
Students from regions
1-3 are not permitted to take the test. They are considered
as native speakers of Chinese. Please issue a Placement
Test permission slip to those who are eligible to take
to the test site.
If you have any questions or concerns,
please do not hesitate to contact Professor Wei Hong
and Professor Daniel Hsieh in FLL.
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Form
23 Process for International Students
FROM:
Michael A. Brzezinski, Director, Office of International
Students & Scholars
Deb Sheets, Associate Registrar for Communication and Academic Services
DATE: October 16, 2002
This memo is
to inform you of a revision to the Form 23 process for international students.
These changes reflect the institution's desire to creatively utilize existing
systems and business practices to assist F-1 and J-1 international students
from unnecessarily losing their legal status under SEVIS (Student Exchange
Visitor Information System), a system of the INS (Immigration & Naturalization
Service) that monitors international students, faculty and staff.
As you may well know, F-1 and J-1 students must always complete AT LEAST
the following number of credit hours each and every fall and spring semester:
12
credit hours for international undergraduate students.
9 credit hours for international graduate and professional students without
a graduate staff appointment.
6 credit hours for international graduate and professional students with
a graduate staff appointment.
Five exceptions for a reduced course load (RCL) exist that allow F-1 and
J-1 students to enroll in and complete a course load less than the respective
credit hours listed above. They are:
1-
medical
2- improper course placement
3- initial difficulty with English language ability
4- initial difficulty with American teaching methods
5- the last semester of a student's academic program
The federal government requires Designated School Officials (DSOs) to authorize
RCL status prior to dropping a course that takes a student's credit hour
limit below those listed above.
Failure to authorize RCL status prior to the drop results in a student losing
his/her legal status. There are five DSOs in International Students and Scholars
(ISS).
Procedures
for RCL Authorization for F-1 and J-1 students
1) Academic advisors will complete the Form 23. Students with a residency
code of 300 or above (international students) who wish to drop below
the credit hour limits outlined above, should be sent to International
Students and Scholars (ISS) to request a reduced course load (RCL) exception
and to complete the Form 23 transaction.
2) ISS staff will counsel with the student and provide an internal ISS form
entitled, Request for Reduced Course Load (RCL), to students who qualify
for consideration of approval for RCL
status.
3) The student will seek appropriate endorsement of his/her request on the
ISS form, Request for Reduced Course Load (RCL), from an academic advisor,
head of graduate program or designee, or faculty member of a particular class,
as appropriate, and then return the form to an ISS DSO for final approval.
4) After obtaining appropriate signatures on the form, Request for Reduced
Course Load (RCL), the student will return Form 23 to ISS. During the first
four weeks of each spring and fall semester ISS will complete the Form 23
transaction. The Office of the Registrar will process international student
Form 23s beginning in week 5 of fall and spring terms.
Please contact Mike at mbrzezinski@purdue.edu or 494-7084 if you have questions
regarding the ISS monitoring or Deb at sheets@purdue.edu, 494-6164 if
you have questions regarding
the form 23 process.
Note - If students do not meet the exception guidelines for ISS DSOs to authorize
RCL status,some students may choose not to drop the course in question
in order to maintain legal status;others will choose to drop the course
regardless of legal consequences. ISS staff will not prevent a student
who wishes to drop a course from dropping it, even if it means that the
student will lose his/her legal status.
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Student
Exchange Visitor Information System (SEVIS)
Date:
July 2, 2002
Background
September 11th jump-started the Immigration & Naturalization Service
(INS) SEVIS system. SEVIS is a database that will store information on F,
J and M international students. Nationwide, universities like Purdue will
be required to submit data to this system. According to an INS proposed rule
published May 16, 2002, schools must comply no later than January 30, 2003.
The Office of International Students & Scholars (ISS) has been leading
the University's effort to become SEVIS compliant. Many units have already
offered advice and assistance to date, including, but not limited to: Office
of the Provost, Office of the Registrar; Bursar's Office; ITaP; Student Services;
Enrollment Services Group; Head Advisors, and; TRAX.
ISS
has annually collected data from international students.
Furthermore, we have always required new students from
abroad to report each semester. However, a significant
number of students report data to ISS well beyond 30
days from the start date of a given semester. Such a
result will become very problematic next year.
One
of the INS proposed rules requires new international
student data to be submitted to the SEVIS system within
30 days of the first day of a given semester. Failure
to do so will lead to the loss of a student's legal
status with no recourse to regain it. We do not
anticipate a change in this proposed rule. For your
information, a significant amount of the required data
can only be collected by face-to-face interaction with
the student and a review of his/her legal documents,
i.e., passport, immigration papers, etc.
August
19 and thereafter - all new international students report
to Schleman Hall, room 136 (ISS office)
Although
new students have already been informed of this reporting
requirement, please assist us by reminding new students
of this requirement upon their arrival. Students only
need to report one time.
Action
Plan
Due to the severe legal consequences outlined above, we will initiate a procedure
in conjunction with the Card Office to create a minimally intrusive "safety
net" that will hopefully ensure that all new international students
will report to ISS in a timely fashion. Beginning with this fall semester,
new international students must first report required SEVIS data to ISS before
they will be issued a student ID card from the Card Office in the PMU. This
trial process will help the University to assess if a more stringent procedure
will be needed in January 2003.
Summary
The INS has adopted a zero-tolerance attitude toward both international students
and toward US institutions that do not meet SEVIS requirements. With
nearly 4,700 students from abroad enrolled on our campus last fall, we
can ill afford to lose the legal right to enroll 12% of our student body.
Once
the aforementioned INS proposed rule becomes a final
rule later this summer or early fall, we will schedule
informational sessions to further explain SEVIS requirements
and ramifications. In the meantime, should you have any
questions or concerns, please do not hesitate to contact
me by e-mail, mbrzezinski@purdue.edu , or by phone, 4-5361.
Thank
you for your support of this very important matter.
Michael
A. Brzezinski
Director, International Students & Scholars
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July 2, 2008
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