Is there a difference? International students in community colleges

This chapter sketches a clearer picture of the united states population of international students, and explores how they differ from their domestic peers in the community college context. Community colleges are an integral component of higher education in the United States; they are host to students with a wide-ranging set of academic goals and various levels of personal preparedness for college. The chapter utilizes data derived from the Survey of Entering Student Engagement (SENSE) to compare student engagement and student services utilization rates between international and domestic students. International students have higher levels of classroom engagement when compared to their domestic peers, but engagement overall is still low among both groups. The chapter uses SENSE data to compare differences in classroom engagement between these two student populations. The role that community colleges play in educating a diverse and complex workforce cannot be overstated.