(Most of this web site is intended for American volunteers. Internationals are welcome to read about our programs, and to apply for English In Action using this link.)

Meeting with people from other countries is our reward. The Community Committee for International Students is a volunteer organization that supports international graduate students, visiting scholars and their families at Stanford University. We are resource people who become friends with Internationals adjusting to America. In the process, we gain friends from around the world and enrich our lives.

If you would like to join us, we welcome you. For more information about our programs and how to join CCIS check out the links below or use the drop down list in the tool bar. You may also call CCIS at 650-498-5252.

Some of our programs are:

• English in Action (EIA) partners meet once a week for an hour of conversation.
• Hospitality families welcome internationals into their homes at holidays, birthdays and other occasions.
• Homestay families house incoming graduate internationals for 3 to 5 days in August and September prior to their campus housing becoming available.
• Informal English Classes are held weekly in American culture, slang, writing, history, and accent reduction.
• Professional Liaison matches spouses of international graduate students and scholars with an American professional in the same occupation.
• Potluck/Music Night is held quarterly on a Sunday evening at the Bechtel International Center. Everyone brings a salad, cooked dish, or dessert that will serve eight to ten people. Volunteers may invite their international partners from any of our programs especially English-in-Action, Homestay, and Hospitality. At any one table you might find engineers, business managers, doctors, journalists, professors from China, Korea, Japan, India, Holland, Argentina and the United States. After dinner we retire to the I-Center's Living Room or Assembly Room to be entertained by pianists, guitar players, singers and dancers from overseas and America.
• The CCIS Communiqué, which is published quarterly, reports on current activities, profiles our remarkable volunteers, and gives suggestions for folks working in all of our programs. It contains contact information for CCIS program chairs and officers as well as the staff of the Bechtel International Center.

For more information and a full list of our programs, use the drop down list in the tool bar.

To purchase the DVD "Women in a New Land" see this page. This film was produced with the support of the Bechtel International Center at Stanford University and the Community Committee for International Students.

If you are a CCIS client (student, spouse, visiting scholar), and wish to be informed by email about events of interest, please join our Yahoo group CCISclients.

Click to join the CCISclients Yahoo email group Clicking above requires you to use a Yahoo ID or to create one, which is free of charge. You can set up your Yahoo ID to forward all emails to your usual email address, so you don't have to additionally check emails at Yahoo just because you have an ID.

However, if you prefer not to establish a Yahoo ID, you may also join the list by sending an email to

CCISclients-subscribe@yahoogroups.com