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GSI and IEC Welcome Record Number of Students

 

2018 Simon Award

This year, the Office of Global Affairs was delighted to welcome a record number of international students for both the 2019 Global Summer Institute (GSI) and Intensive English Center (IEC)!

Photo: Global Student Ambassador gives a campus tour to GSI 2019 students.

This summer, GSI received over 300 students from 15 countries and regions, a 60% increase from 2018. All three GSI programs (Global Certificate, Global Academic, and Intensive English) saw record numbers of student enrollment. The Intensive English Program, run by the IEC, more than doubled their summer enrollment from the previous year, drawing the largest number of students in the program's 30 year history.

GSI, which began in 2017 as a new international student success initiative, promotes the acclimation, acculturation, and language preparation of newly admitted and conditionally admitted undergraduate students, and hosts short-term visiting international students from partner universities. This year, GSI also piloted a graduate-level conditional admission program with the College of Business.

Beyond academics, GSI students participate in a number of cultural activities to introduce them to life on campus and Long Island. Stony Brook students volunteered as Global Student Ambassadors (GSA) to mentor and guide GSI students throughout the summer, as well as engage them in on-campus activities.

In total, more than one third of GSI students continued on in the fall to pursue full-time undergraduate and graduate studies at Stony Brook!