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While the International Office’s International Student Advisor, Sylvie Lee, was pleased with the increased participation—the 2006 program included booths, concerts, dance performances, audiovisual presentations, food tasting and craft exhibits—she would like to see the program foster more interaction of a pedagogical nature. “The challenge is to encourage the various faculties to organize an academic activity with an international flavour during International Week.”
Speaking at the launch of the week, President Gilles Patry also stressed the importance of fostering the international dimension in academic programs. He said that the University would like to set up other programs to give students the opportunity to study abroad with the specific goal of increasing the number of uOttawa students taking part in foreign exchange programs from 250 to 500 over the next four years.
In the short term, the University would also like to see the proportion of foreign students on campus rise to eight per cent. The University currently has 1,500 foreign students at the undergraduate level and 500 at the graduate level, which represents slightly more than five per cent of the total student body.
