Assignment 9: Be a Leader (The Sequel)

Background Information:

Saturday April 4th was UMBC's New Student Day. The day before that, UMBC had a program where current students on campus host a potential out-of-state student. The program began on Friday at 3pm. The hosts met their students at the undergraduate admissions and orientation office, helped bring their stuff to our dorms/apartments, went to a seminar by Freeman Habrowski, then there were a series of events planned until midnight. The students then spent the night at their host's residence, and the next morning the hosts brought them to the RAC for New Student Day.

1) I went to the Admissions office on Thursday to get the "Host" t-shirt, schedule of events, and to sign a contract. By using HTWFAIP methods from earlier in the book, I found out that four of the hosts actually backed out and the woman in charge (Danielle) was having serious difficulties finding people to replace them. I offered to help her find people, and by praising their people skills, asking if they wanted to get more involved in extra curriculars, and giving them a good reputation to live up to, I got two of my friends on campus to not only get interested in the program, but within an hour after I left the office, they had both gone and me with Danielle.

2) The whole purpose of the hosting program is to show the prospective student different aspects of UMBC and campus life so that they will be more interested in attedending the university. While taking my student, Cangun (how sweet of a name is that?!), on a tour and to all the events, I talked about my freshman experience and the mistakes I made, asked questions about what he wanted to study and why UMBC, praised every effort to memorize information and directions, and asked which events he wanted to attend rather then forcing him to attend certain ones. And in the morning, he actually told me he was now set on UMBC!