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Amelia Coleman, Enrollment Management Professional at the School of Business, spent a good chunk of February working half way around the world.

“It was an amazing experience,” she said.

Coleman was one of four employees from the University of Vermont who traveled to China to recruit students for the US-Sino Pathways Program (USPP).

“Most of the students in China either want to study business or engineering, so it was helpful to have advisors from those two programs traveling to the Kaplan centers,” Coleman said.

USPP provides a success-oriented pathway for talented Chinese students to pursue undergraduate studies in the U.S. This is program’s second year. Last year, 19 out of 31 USPP students enrolled in the School of Business Administration. This year, 23 out of 40 students will study business here. Coleman says that business is extremely popular among the Chinese students because many have hopes of improving their own family businesses.

The goal of the program is to completely integrate the Chinese students with English speaking UVM students.

“They’re excited to come here, they want a roommate that’s a native English speaker, they want to go to lunch in the cafeteria with the students from their accounting class, they’re coming here not just for educational opportunities, but really because they want to improve their English and embrace the culture here at UVM,” said Coleman.