This September, among the new students attending the University of Maine’s orientation in Orono will be two students from China and one each from India, Vietnam and Bangladesh.
That the students are from abroad is not new – the University of Maine had 341 degree-seeking, international students last year. But the way they got here is.
They didn’t come here on their own. They were recruited in their home countries by agents paid on a per-head basis by the public university.