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This article presents a summary of a report submitted to the International Educational Exchange Service of the U.S. State Department on the attitudes of Asiatic students to orientation in Hawaii. The selection of the University of Hawaii as a sponsoring institution for an orientation program for foreign students coming to the U.S. under the Fulbright Program raised many questions regarding the desirability of the site. Recognizing the varying positions held by people on the relative merits of Hawaii for such a purpose, the Division of International Educational Exchange Service of the State Department requested that a study be conducted at the orientation center in Hawaii for the purpose of shedding some light on the problem. Specifically, the directives of the State Department indicated that the evaluation was to be carried out on the site of the orientation center itself, which initially posed some difficult methodological questions. With this basic difficulty of handling the problem in mind, materials were collected on the reaction of the grantees to the fact of being assigned to Hawaii, the orientation program, the staff of the orientation center, the people of the community, the treatment accorded them and the other grantees at the center. |
