Author Archives: Jeffrey Tsang

It’s Spring!

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Hello Everyone!

My name is Jeffrey Tsang, I am a 3rd year undergraduate student studying Human Development & Family Sciences with an option in Human Services. This term will mark my first full year as an intern in the Office of the Dean of Student Life. I specialize in special projects and initiatives the office. This term I will be focusing on the Everyone Matters @ OSU campaign and relaunching it in the Fall. I will also be revamping our College Student Services Administration program website. I will also be developing a Photo Project for First Year Experience next year. I am usually the go to person for project in the office, so I get a lot of exposure to different things.

On campus, I work with University Housing & Dining Services as the Late Night & Leadership Program Assistant. I plan After Dark with a team of enthusiastic individuals from Rec Sports and the Student Events & Activities Center. I also do leadership development workshops for student staff and hall councils. I provide advising for large scale programs/events and risk management.

I am also part of the the NASPA Undergraduate Fellows Program. I had a pleasure and opportunity to go to Orlando, Florida for the annual conference. Look at our group!

It’s Saturday, April 13 and I just wrapped up with the #SAtechOR unconference! More to come about that later… stay tuned!

NUFP Summer Internship 2012- Reflection at OSU

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Hello everybody! I previously wrote a blog during my first week I started my internship here at the office of the Dean of Student Life. I cannot believe that 5 weeks already pass by and today is my last day of work here in the office. This journey has been a self discovery process for me and I am so thankful for the opportunity. The experience of working full time and managing my own schedule as long as I was getting my work done has been a new experience for me.

Part of my internship experience included having the opportunity to be a part of the Professional and Managerial Internships in State Employment (PROMISE) summer internship program. The PROMISE program allowed me to connect with other interns around campus while given the opportunity for learning and growth both professionally and personally through professional development presentations and dialogues.

Moving forward I am excited to see friends and family back home and being able to start planning and preparing to attend graduate school within a graduate program in student affairs  here at OSU or potentially another school around the country. Thanks to the exposure of my work at OSU and the people the people that I met, I have learn some of the areas where I can improve and that are going to affect me in my future academic goals if I do not make the effort to rectify it. I am taking these coming up year to prepare for graduate school by taking a few classes such as research methods, writing and grammar. I am also going to start doing some readings to start familiarizing myself with the materials in student affairs programs and a portfolio to help me with my graduate school applications.

All in all, I really enjoyed my time here in Oregon, meeting new people, visiting local places, the nearby cities, and specially the coast. I am really passionate about social justice efforts towards understanding and inclusion. For that reason I am happy to know that my research findings such as best practices and recommendations for both the CRF program and the international student population are going to put into use starting next term. I am also exited to know that after I am gone any student interested in learning about graduate school and the process to get into a graduate program can have access to the graduate school guide that I was able to put together.

Big shout out to all of you that made an impact in my experience here at OSU.

 

Introducing NUFP Intern Joel Orozco

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Hello everybody my name is Joel Orozco and I am the NUFP (NASPA Undergraduate Fellows Program) intern with Oregon State University of the Dean of Student Life. I am originally from Chihuahua Mexico but I went to school in Denver Colorado. I recently just graduated from Metropolitan State University of Denver and I am currently doing my search to apply to a student affairs graduate program.

My journey at OSU has been very rewarding so far. I started working for the University Housing & Dining Services (UHDS) office for the first 3 weeks of my internship by helping with initial student development research and comparison school interviews to designed the curriculum for the community relations facilitators (CRF’s), which is a peer mentorship program that is intended to embrace diversity and address social justice issues by having creative events within the resident halls at OSU.

A week ago I was moved to the office of the Dean of Student Life to work on two exiting projects. The first one has to do with a resources guide for graduate school with a focus on student who want to pursue a career in higher education and student affairs. The guide contains information from broad topics such as types of programs, financing, and application process to more specific topics such as terms and definitions, things one should know before grad school, and a section on knowing the details.

My second project involves international students and the office of Disability Access Center. The purpose of my project is for me to gather accurate information in regards of international students with disabilities cultural competencies when it comes to disabilities. I have been looking at the literature in a couple different databases and interviewing other schools and individuals to hear their feedback and to see how individuals from other disability centers in direct contact with international students are approaching this issue.

All in all, I have really been enjoying my time in Corvallis meeting new people, the nearby cities, and specially the coast. I am passionate about the work and research that I am doing and I am so thankful for the opportunity to be here!

Go Beavs!!!

 

Week 3- Introducing Kim!

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I am so excited about my work in the Office of the Dean of Student Life as the Coordinator for Student Life programs!  This week, I was full of excitement!  Part of my work is coordinating the NASPA Undergraduate Fellows Program (NUFP), a mentoring program for undergraduatestudents from historically underrepresented populations who are interested in exploring careers in student affairs and higher education.  Stay tuned for more information about NUFP off of our website.  As part of NUFP, we have two NUFP interns at OSU this summer.  The interns are Isaiah Iboko, who just graduated from Grinell University who is working with UHDS and Joel Orozco, who just graduated from Metropolitan State College of Denver.  Joel worked for UHDS for his first two weeks here on campus and this week transitioned to our office!  It’s exciting to have so many amazing students and interns working with our office this summer!

 

Week 1 of Summer!

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Summer term is in full swing in the Office of the Dean of Student Life. We are busily working on some exciting new projects for the OSU community. This summer we have two students working in the office, Sophie, who is a PROMISE Intern and myself, Jeffrey. This blog will be updated by us on a regular basis. We will also have some guest writers such as, Mamta- Dean of Student Life, Tracy- Associate Dean of Student Life, Kim- Student Life Coordinator and maybe some other surprise appearances. We are excited to share some of what we do with you all!

So once again, I’m Jeffrey and I am currently the Student Support Programs Lead for the Office of the Dean of Student Life. I am going to be a Junior in Human Development and Family Sciences & International Studies. This summer I will be working on some projects such as, finalizing and maintaining the Dean of Student Life website and blog, preparation work for the NASPA Undergraduate Fellows Program (NUFP) for the OSU campus, Video Projects, the Everyone Matters @ Oregon State campaign and also some other small projects.

Last week I was at the NUFP Dungy Leadership Institute at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas. This week I tried to be knowledgable with the projects that I am doing and coordinating with Sophie for tasks. I also finalized the website and it will go live next week, please check it out! We also started to brainstorm more video ideas which are all extremely exciting! That is pretty much what I have been doing this week! Check out the blog next week, Sophie will be kicking it off with what she is doing this summer!

-Jeffrey