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UW-MILWAUKEE HOPES TO ATTRACT MORE CHINESE STUDENTS
WPR News - UW-Milwaukee hopes to attract more Chinese students
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Tuesday December 06, 2011
by Chuck Quirmbach
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(MILWAUKEE) A tentative agreement to help the UW-Milwaukee recruit hundreds of Chinese students to attend the university has been signed. It could be the latest page in a long history of Chinese students coming to the Badger state.
This week, UW-Milwaukee will ask the UW Board of Regents to approve a marketing deal that would bring hundreds more Chinese students to the Milwaukee school. University spokesman Tom Luljack won't disclose the financial details until all the regents are briefed on the plan. But he says even though there are 250 Chinese students on the Milwaukee campus now, and the number has been growing, paying money to recruit more makes sense for the whole state.
UW System officials say there are now more than 2,300 hundred Chinese students at UW campuses with about two-thirds at UW-Madison and the rest at Milwaukee and Stevens Point. Laurie Dennis is with the Wisconsin China Initiative at UW-Madison. She says a recent study shows the first Chinese students enrolled in Madison's College of Engineering in 1907, and numbers have occasionally grown depending on China's political situation. She says as more Chinese students come to Wisconsin, it's vital to make them comfortable.
Dennis says students from China make up the largest single country percentage of the more than 5,000 international students in the UW System. The percentage will grow if UW-Milwaukee's recruiting plan goes ahead.
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