For over thirty years, colleges and universities have hired David for assistance with their international admission decisions.  He reviews complete application files including their foreign educational credentials to report on a range of issues that are considered important to the decisions of the client university.  If you need only foreign credential evaluations, you should contact a NACES® credential evaluation service.  If you would like a broader review that is focused on the interrelated set of decisions you must make in real time about your international applicants, you may want to inquire about our assistance.

Ordinarily a college or university expresses its admission requirements and procedures in terms that are most appropriate for prospective students of the country in which that institution is located.  While this practice is understandable, it may hamper the recruitment and admission of students from other education systems.  David Bruey Associates LLC can assist you to express your requirements and procedures in ways that are also useful for prospective students from other education systems.   David has written many admission and scholarship standards that are applicable to international students while maintaining consistency with the norms used for home country students.  He has also assisted universities in the United States and abroad to develop more effective international admission literature.   Contact David if you would like to review your admission policies, procedures, or literature from the perspective of international student recruitment.

David Bruey Associates LLC can assist graduate departments to plan international student recruitment initiatives that are highly focused and thus relatively efficient.  The extent of this assistance can vary from the explanation of useful concepts to the design of detailed recruitment strategies.  For graduate departments that are aware of world events in higher education, the Bologna Process has increased the urgency for well-reasoned international admission policies and procedures.  You are welcome to contact David about plans to attract qualified international graduate students. 

Students who have succeeded in their home education systems are not necessarily prepared to succeed in the United States; and university personnel who work well with United States students are not necessarily effective with students from other education systems.  Colleges and universities in the United States and abroad have hired David to present sessions for faculty, staff, and students on cross-cultural adaptation and the international student experience.  These programs are intended to decrease the student underachievement which often occurs during studies in a new education system and to increase the many benefits of enrolling international students.  The programs are also beneficial to increase student recruitment because an institution’s success in attracting more international students often depends on the well-being and happiness of its enrolled students.  Contact David if you would like assistance with orientation programs or written materials to enhance student and staff cross-cultural effectiveness.

Many international student advisors in the United States are acutely aware of the importance of health insurance to protect not only their students but also the interests of their educational institutions.  In the early 1970s David was among the first in the field to establish health insurance requirements and coverage options for all F-1 visa students at his university.  He has reviewed hundreds of international student insurance policies and has negotiated and managed international group insurance plans for more than thirty years.  You can contact David to review insurance plans, or you may prefer to host his half-day workshop on the review of international student plans and the administration of university insurance requirements.  The workshop price is $1,100 plus the costs of economy transportation and accommodations.  The arrangements for this workshop are similar to those described for the Workshop on International Student Recruitment and Admissions.  These insurance reviews and the insurance workshop are profoundly culture-based and not applicable outside the United States. 

Because of his analytical nature and his deep involvement in several areas of international education over many years, David may be in a position to understand your proposed project and envision approaches to it.   He has advised scores of colleges and universities on effective administrative policies and procedures and has been hired for a wide range of projects in addition to those summarized above.  Three examples of that range have been the critique of business plans to offer United States curricula overseas, the presentation of seminars on government regulations affecting international students, and the development of methods for universities abroad to locate exchange partners in the United States.  If you have in mind a project for which David’s abilities may be appropriate, you are welcome to contact him.