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Technology at the I-Center Web page • For the second year, a web registration and password distribution form was developed on the I- Center’s site to allow access to NRAware!, a new online tax software service. NRAware! reported 798 Stanford affiliates registered to take advantage of this service. NRAware! is a web-based tax return preparation system designed primarily for nonresident aliens who are F or J visaholders to aid in preparing their U.S. federal income tax return - Form 1040NR or 1040NR-EZ. • *Web activity has again increased markedly for academic year 2002/2003. As illustrated below, averages for hits to our home page have doubled over the last two years. 2000/01 average 7900 hits per month 2001/02 average 12800 hits per month 2002/03 average 15800 hits per month This activity peaked in July 2003 with 19029 hits to our home page (an all-time record). Even in August, normally a moribund month for web activity, the home page was hit 14053 times. *Please note that these are hits to our home page only, and not to files accessed within the site. Statistical averages for hits on these files is much higher. Hardware and software • The I-Center is slowly migrating to OSX. We now have 4 full-time users of the system and expect to add at least 2 more in the next academic year. We have proceeded cautiously as the OS has become more stable, user-friendly and integrated with Stanford proprietary applications. Also, as OSX is rather ‘ram-hungry’, some of our older machines (G3 systems) need ram upgrades to run this system efficiently. As we replace the older iMacs (most probably with the eMac, which has a G4 processor), OSX will become more ubiquitous for I-Center staff. SEVIS issues • PeopleSoft has integrated a patch (PASS - ) which is capable of batching large numbers of data records to the SEVIS server. This patch was not ready for Stanford to meet the August 1, 2003 deadline at which time the data for all F-1 and J-1 Stanford students and scholars (and their J-2 dependents) had to be entered into the SEVIS database. Therefore, the staff of the Foreign Scholar Office and Foreign Student Office were obliged to enter all of this data manually. To facilitate this effort, a web form was developed to gather data from F-1 and J-1 students at Stanford. This data was then transferred to a FileMaker database which was then used to copy and paste the data (primarily address information) into the SEVIS database. • At the time of the printing of this Annual Report, a batch system using the PASS patch has been successfully used to register the majority of F-1 students at Stanford University witih SEVIS for Fall and Winter Quarters 2003/04. 31
Community Committee for International Students (CCIS) CCIS had a very successful 2002-03 year. The highlight of the year was celebrating our 50th Anniversary in May with two separate events. • The first event was the 50/40 Reception, a combined event celebrating CCIS’ 50th Anniversary and the I-Center’s 40th Anniversary. I-Center Director John Pearson began with welcoming everyone, then CCIS President, Charlene Ward, talked about volunteering. She introduced past Stanford President Dr. Richard Lyman who spoke, and then Dr. Isha Ray spoke about her involvement with CCIS and the I- Center as an International student. • The second event was CCIS’ Annual Meeting with Stanford President John Hennessey providing opening remarks, followed by an I- Center Director and CCIS President representing the five past decades. For these celebrations, we were delighted to have CCIS’ first three President’s in attendance (Joan Lane, Sheila Spaeth, and Pat Chadwick), along with Stanford’s four I-Center Directors (Werner Warmbrunn (CCIS’ founder), Ken Cooper, Lee Zeigler, and current Director John Pearson). We had much to celebrate during this year. CCIS began the year with 19 enthusiastic Board members and a membership drive that exceeded our expectations. Our programs did equally well: • Community Advisors welcomed 423 new International graduate students and 57 new scholars/researchers in the10 days before school began. • English-in-Action matched close to 300 graduate students, scholars, and spouses with community volunteers. The partners meet for one hour, once a week for general conversation. • English Classes had 12 varied classes per quarter and a consistently higher enrollment than before. • Homestay found community homes, for a 3-5 day stay before the beginning of the school year, for all applicants (about 50). • Loan Closet provided small household items to about 125 students/scholars for their apartments. • Spouse Education Fund gave grants to 24 spouses, their highest number to date. • Communiqué, our newsletter, was increased to five issues this year, beginning with a one-page edition in September. The November issue was eight pages in length, January/February, March/ April, and May/June were six pages. Each issue was filled with useful information for our CCIS membership. • Our other programs were also very successful, the Potluck/Music Nights attracted many new students and community members, the Cooking Classes were always full, and about 75 people enjoyed the Holiday Open House. In summary CCIS had a very productive and fun year. We ended the year with more volunteers than at the beginning and a positive cash flow. 32 Bechtel International Center Annual Report 2002-2003
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