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International Student Program

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Pre-Orientation for International Students (PO4IS) 2009

 

Tuesday, September 1 (afternoon)

  • Airport Pick Ups begin at noon (complete online arrival form)
  • Check into dorms
  • Get ID
  • Shopping if needed


Wednesday, September 2

  • Airport Pick Ups until 4 p.m.
  • Check into dorms
  • Informal orientation to the community
  • TB Testing
  • Shopping and bank trips

 

Campus Center @ 7:00 p.m.                          

Overview of PO4IS

Introductions of ISP staff, Mentors and you

Mentor Mediation I: The Basics

 

Thursday, September 3

Campus Center

8:45 to 10:00 a.m.           
Government regulations paperwork session
                

  • Complete employment and tax documentation (W4, I-9)
  • Hand in passports and I-20s (or DS2019s) for copying.
  • Receive host family assignments
 

10:00 a.m. to noon            
Aaron Colhapp, International Student Program Coordinator

Jimm Crowder, Director of International and Transfer Admissions

  • Immigration and Others Laws affecting International Students
  • Cultural Adjustment: The Student Experience, America, Academics, Finances, Health, and other 
  • Q and A

Noon to 1:00 p.m.           
Lunch with Mentors

1:00 to 2:00 p.m.             
Host Family Orientation          
             

2:00 to 3:00 p.m.             
Mentor Mediation II: Adjusting to Studying and Living in America
             

5:00 to 6:00 p.m.             
Dinner with Mentors

6:30 to 8:00 p.m.             
Mentor Mediation III: Sex, Drugs and Rock ‘n’ Roll      

 

Friday, September 4         

Campus Center

9:00 – 10:30 a.m.            
Cultural Assimilation with Yankees

 

11:00 – 11:30 a.m.          
Mentor Mediation IV: Theory becomes Practice

 

11:30 – 12:30 p.m.          
Lunch with Mentors

1:00 – 4:30 p.m.  
Drop-off

6:00 p.m.                          
Orientation Begins


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