According to the survey, ______percent of foreign students have no American friends.

One study in the United States found that 38 percent of foreign students said they had no close American friends. Communications specialist Elisabeth Gareis studied more than 450 foreign students. VOA Student Union blogger Jessica Stahl also investigated the issue. Her survey showed that 75 percent of foreign students said they have more than 2 American friends.(23)But 10 percent reported having no American friends. Elisabeth Gareis teaches in the Department of Communication Studies at Baruch College in New York. She says efforts on how to improve relationships between the two groups of students have yet to be studied in detail.(24)But she says these efforts should begin with the college or university, and that these institutions have been working harder. Institutions should build an infrastructure that promotes contact.