Session
International Student and Scholar Services (ISSS)
Building successful and engaged international communities on a college campus can be hard. It can be even more difficult when your communities are small, too large, or certain denominations become a majority of your population, siphoning off engagement with others. While no master at this art, as part of a peer led program as a student, and now leading it as a full-time staff, I find it's worth exploring how peer engagement and support from pre-arrival contact, to move in, to orientation and beyond make all the difference.
Ava Deitrich (she/her/hers)
International Student Services Coordinator
University of Northern Iowa