The orientations were "a really smart idea," said Allan Goodman, president of the Institute of International Education, a nonprofit that produces an annual report on the number of international students studying in the U.S. "If your university has an internationalization strategy, you have to do the homework and make sure students arrive well prepared. You not only have to take care of them when they get to campus, but you have to do the pre-departure things that help them get their minds around what the educational experience is like."