University of Indianapolis plans flag ceremony

The international flavor of the University of Indianapolis will be highlighted in food and ceremony Wednesday, October 2 when 218 students representing 63 foreign nations participate in the university's 15th annual Celebration of the Flags beginning at 2 p.m. in the atrium of Schwitzer Student Center. The program is open to the public.

The colorful ceremony has become a popular fall rite at the university, where 5 percent of the undergraduates are from a foreign nation. International enrollment is up slightly this year in spite of new government requirements that made obtaining visas more difficult, and the number is just one shy of the number enrolled prior to the World Trade Center attacks of September 11, 2001.

UINDY has one of the highest percentage of international students among institutions classified as Midwest master's universities by U.S. News and World Report, which compiles the rankings. These students come from around the globe and this fall, for the first time since the ceremonies began 15 years ago, Bolivia, Switzerland and the Czech Republic are represented.

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