Assembly of International Students » Advocacy http://aisupenn.org University of Pennsylvania Tue, 07 Feb 2012 23:08:12 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Advocacy Committee and the Student Ambassador Program http://aisupenn.org/426 http://aisupenn.org/426#comments Tue, 22 Jun 2010 00:00:08 +0000 Cynthia Ip http://aisupenn.org/?p=426 This year, the Advocacy Committee has bloomed and many of our past projects have been put in practice. The greatest success of this past year was, without a doubt, the Student Ambassador Program. More than 30 current Penn students were trained to become Ambassadors. With the help of the Admissions Office and Kite and Key, they are now ready to represent Penn and to teach high school students from local international schools about admissions in the United States college system and about all the benefits that Penn has to offer. The next wave of Student Ambassadors will be trained in the fall. If you are interested in participating, keep your eyes open for our next training sessions.

If you want to participate in organizing the sessions, join the Advocacy Committee in the fall!

But this is not the only achievement or program of the committee in the past year! In April, the committee supervised the Yield project – through which newly admitted students were paired with current Penn undergraduates in order to receive guidance and support throughout the decision process.

Another project of the committee is the Winter Housing Project, which gives the opportunity to international Penn students who live in the low rises and can’t go home for the winter break to live in a high rise room during the break.

]]> http://aisupenn.org/426/feed 0 Student Ambassador Program http://aisupenn.org/sap http://aisupenn.org/sap#comments Sun, 28 Mar 2010 21:55:52 +0000 Cynthia Ip http://aisupenn.org/?p=239 This semester, the main project of the Advocacy Committee is the Student Ambassador Program (SAP). The Program is organised in coordination with the Admissions Office, and it’s aim is to increase the awareness of Penn in local schools all over the world. We will train ambassadors to go back home and help their others who are less informed about the college application process. Armed with our detailed student-written International Student’s Guide to Admissions, our Ambassadors will make a difference.

We held the info sessions for the program in late March, and our training sessions will be held in April. The first stage of the program is likely to be implemented in the summer of 2010.

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