The USA Organization Texas Non-Profit Corporation Educational and Cultural Program Tax-exempt 501 (c) (3) Public Benefit Since 1995 Professional and Christian Board of Directors Supplies students with I-20 Form for obtaining an F-1 Visa and Eletronic Confirmation (SEVIS) Sponsor Intl. students from: South and Central America, Europe, Africa, Asia, and Australia.

USA's Vision G lobal Awareness R eaching Personal Goals O pportunities for Brighter Futures W ell-rounded Educational Experience T rue Benefits to all Participants H igh Expectations for Success

Introduction

USA, United Students Association, Inc. is a Texas non-profit, Christian-based, tax-exempt, public benefit educational and cultural organization, which sponsors international exchange students. The USA corporate office is located in Mansfield, Texas.

The purpose of our program is to promote and increase cultural understanding, awareness, and acceptance. Additionally, USA assists in development of peaceful, friendly relations between the U.S. and other nations. All international students in the USA program will be exposed to a daily learning experience in the United States. This cultural immersion experience will increase their knowledge of people, customs, and a culture that are different from their own. Additionally, language abilities of students will be enhanced and become significantly more efficient.

USA is fully responsible for the welfare of the students participating in our program by providing total support to the students, host families, local representatives, and school authorities throughout the international students’ stay in the United States. USA guarantees the financial support for all program participants, including full coverage medical, liability, and accidental death insurance and return airfare upon completion of the academic year program.

The USA staff is committed to excellence in serving everyone involved in the exchange program. We work as a team, continually building and refining the USA program through evaluating present and past experience. We will progress into the future with the assurance that all of our students will benefit from and receive the utmost in quality offered from USA.

As our logo states, USA is “Stepping into the Future” with all who participate in our program. By granting all of our students the opportunity for personal growth, enhanced communication skills, academic development, and cultural understanding, we serve as a major stepping stone for each of their futures. We intend to help build brighter, more fulfilled futures for all of those who participate in USA’s international student exchange program.

Purpose and Objectives

USA has made a commitment to serve everyone participating in our student exchange program with the utmost in excellence. The program is designed to promote a future of greater cultural understanding and world peace through bringing people of different cultures together for the purpose of personal development, improved communication skills, academic progress, and cultural understanding. International secondary students will be immersed into the American culture. The learning process will be a continuous one for the students, as well as for the host families. Each of our students will reside in carefully chosen host family homes and study in a local high school. Each is given the opportunity to stay for one semester and, if earned and deserving of, the student will be rewarded with the opportunity to complete a full academic school year.

The international students will help bridge the gap that exists between people of differing cultures through sharing their own culture with their host families, friends, and classmates in the United States. Simultaneously, the students will be absorbing an enormous amount of information regarding the American culture. “Stepping into the Future” is what USA is all about. Our students, and everyone involved in the exchange program, will be taking a large step to build a future of greater cultural awareness and peace. The specific areas of growth on which we concentrate include the following:

• Personal Development All students in the USA program will be faced with numerous opportunities for personal development. They will be immersed into a culture and lifestyle which is different from that to which they are accustomed, without the support system on which they have relied in the past. Students will mature in their decision-making and problem-solving skills, become more self-reliant and self-motivated, and improve in their social interaction skills.
• Communication Skills One of the primary goals of USA’s student exchange program is for our international students to improve their proficiency in the English language. Being exposed to the English language on a twenty-four hour daily basis, both at home and at school, students will more readily learn and comprehend the language, as well as express themselves. They will be provided ample opportunities to share themselves and exchange information with others through communication
• Cultural Understanding The very nature of USA’s student exchange program is to bring individuals from different background together for the purpose of promoting cultural understanding and academic development. By taking part in our program, students and host families alike will gain a new perspective on viewing cultures that differ from their own. Through daily observation of and participation in the American lifestyle, our international students and host families will come to a deeper, more conclusive understanding of what their own cultural norms, accepted ways of life, and customs are. This knowledge will better enable them to accept and appreciate different ways of life throughout the world.
• Academic Progress Academic progress is a top priority of USA. We place a great emphasis on our students’ obtaining and maintaining acceptable, passing grades in all of their classes. Students will be challenged academically in a variety of subjects. Their concentration is essential since all classes are conducted in English, and some terms may not yet be familiar to them. USA will monitor the progress and performance of each student on a monthly basis to ensure that the students are diligently applying themselves. By doing so, the students will be successful in advancing academically with knowledge that will enrich their lives.
• USA's main objective for all of our students is that they will return to their home countries and excersice the skills and knowledge acquired in the U.S. to benefit their home countries and communities.

USA Staff

USA is made up of a highly qualified staff whose goal is to serve everyone participating in our program with the utmost in quality and excellence. Descriptions of the staff follows:

USA Representatives

USA Responsibilities

As a sponsor of the student exchange program, USA is committed to serving and assisting everyone involved in our program with the utmost in excellence and integrity. The responsibilities of USA’s staff are taken very seriously and include, but are not limited to, the following: