Hi folks, Jenn here to tell you all about the regional orientation conference the staff went to last weekend at Ole Miss. Every spring orientation staffs from around the country meet for regional conferences…the region in the southeast is region IV and our regional conference is nicknamed SROW which stands for the Southern Regional Orientation Workshop. Schools from LA, MS, AL, GA, FL, TN, KY, NC, and SC were all in attendance. Over 1200 professional staff and student staff attended SROW.
Our group consisted of 15 folks…3 professional staff, 2 grad assistants and our 10 head student staff. In addition to attending Auburn presented 6 different program sessions and submitted our SOS t-shirt in the t-shirt competition.
The 6 programs presented were:
“And They All Lived Happily Ever After….” This program was about our FYE retreat presented by Ella, Melissa and me.
”It’s a Hard Knock Life Being a Transfer Student-The Importance of a Transfer-Specific Orientation.” This program was about our SOS program and why other schools should have transfer orientation presented by our 4 Orientation Leader Coordinators Avery, Zach, Jay and Katie.
”Down the Rabbit Hole: Helping Out-of-State Students Fall Into Place.” This program was about serving and supporting our out of state students and it was presented by me.
”Everybody Look Left, Everybody Look Right. Everywhere You Look Publicity’s Standing Spotlight.” This program was about our Camp War Eagle Camp Counselor recruitment publicity and it was presented by our 4 Head Camp Counselors Katie, Codi, Sam and Chris.
”Everywhere That Mary Went, Her Parents Were Sure to Go.” This program was about our concurrent parent orientation program during Camp War Eagle and it was presented by our 2 Head Parent Counselors Ellis and Richard.
”The ‘D’ Word: What Are We SROW Afraid of Anyway?” This program was about diversity education and initiatives and it was presented by our Grad Assistant Mary Alice and a former Head Camp Counselor and Learning Community Grad Assistant James Winfield.
All these programs has anywhere from 30-80 students and professionals in attendance.
Our SOS t-shirt we submitted for the t-shirt competition ended up winning 3rd place out of about 15 shirts. We are very proud and we hope those of you coming through SOS will like our award winning t-shirt.
Right now our students on spring break so we have been busy in the office finalizing our upcoming March 27th SOS and Camp War Eagle Schedule.
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War Eagle!