Greetings! Thank you for visiting the webpage of the International Student Concerns Committee (ISCC) of NAGPS.

We want to know what the International Student concerns, issues, and successes are at your institution!
Click Here to the take survey!
(updated Oct 2007) 

Message from the International Student Concerns Chair:

My name is Gautham Pandiyan and I am a PhD student in the Molecular
Cancer Biology program at Duke University in Durham, NC. I was born in
Chennai, India and have also lived in Nottingham, England for a few
years. I attended college at The University of Georgia, in Athens,
Georgia and was very involved in international student life. In my
years in college and graduate school I have served in many student
leadership capacities, attended conferences, made presentations, served
as an orientation leader, created programming, and served on university
committees related to international student life. Apart from this I
have also been involved in graduate student council leadership roles
and several other cultural and social student groups.

I am excited to announce some of the goals I have for the ISCC this year:
1) Establish contact and communication with all the regional ISCC reps and build  
a strong network
2) Use this network to solicit opinion on what issues ISCC should work on in the
future
3) Use this network to also determine what best practices regarding international
students at different schools are and to put these up on a website
4) To lobby for creation of new visa classes that would allow more flexibility to
international students to work and stay in the USA during Legislative Action
Day and at other times (see Foreign Student Retainment Talking Points.pdf
from LAD in Feb. 2007)
5) To establish relations with the following parties and to work on issues related to
international students and discen information concerning us:
a) Dr. Daniel Denecke, Council of Graduate Schools
b) National Association of International Educators (NAFSA)
c) Other International Education organizations in the USA

So what are your roles? You form an integral part of the network
described above that will allow us to assess international student
concerns and share best practices. If you are interested in helping us
with our goals and efforts this year, or would like to give us some
feedback please email me at: Iscc@nagps.org

We look forward to hearing from you!