Resources for International Students

The International Student Services team provides guidance and support to international students even before they arrive in Canton and all the way through graduation. Staff members will ensure you get your questions answered and connect you to campus and local resources once you arrive and throughout your St. Lawrence experience.

We offer courses specifically designed for incoming international students like English for Academic Purposes (EAP) and English to Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL). These classes focus on your academic reading, writing, speaking, and listening skills while also offering insights into American culture, traditions, idioms, and conversational English. You will also learn the critical skills necessary for success at St. Lawrence including academic research and writing, reading and note-taking, listening, and classroom discussion.

The Diversity and Inclusion office supports the University’s quest to create and sustain a living-learning community that embraces diversity in all its forms, challenges habits and assumptions underlying the structures of power, privilege, and injustice, and work to ensure that we are inclusive, welcoming, and empowering to all our members. We host, coordinate, and facilitate numerous programming opportunities each semester, collaborate with many departments, teams, clubs, and organizations on their efforts, and work with the other colleges in the area and members of the local community to develop larger programming initiatives.

The University Chaplain is a resource for you in matters of faith, spirituality, wellness, diversity, and social justice, and then pulls these themes together under the rubrics of welcome, inclusion, and hospitality. The University Chaplain hosts several multicultural and faith-based events each year and will partner with you and other interested students on a variety of projects and initiatives.