Office provides opportunities
to develop practical knowledge
By Guy Maynard
Of the EmruM
Working as an on-campus intern taught Kathleen
Pyfer the skills she needed to do the job she wanted
to do.
Pyfer is now corporate training director for the
Emporium, and conducts management workshops
throughout the Northwest.
"I would not have the job I have right now if I
hadn't done the internship," she says.
Pyfer interned as a staff counselor in the Office of
Student Services from 1979 until 1981. While in that
position, she learned practical applications of the
academics taught in in the classroom, she says.
"The internship was the most valuable education
I received at the University," Pyfer says.
But internships are not the
only way University students
can build on what they learn in
the classroom. Involvement in
honoraries, fraternities or
sororities and working to help
orient new students can also
make a students' years on cam
pus more fulfilling, says lane
DeGidio, director of the Office
of Student Development.
And active involvement in
such programs can help students get jobs after
graduation, DeCidio says.
The Office of Student Development was created
in January 1983 to integrate programs that contribute
to a student's interpersonal, leadership, and career
related skills, she says.
The purpose of honoraries is to recognize
students for their academic achievements, leader
ship or service to the University.
There are 20 different honor societies on campus
covering a broad range of achievements and
academic areas and participating in many different
^rtivities.
Interest in honoraries appears to be increasing,
says Hilda Young, coordinator of honoraries for the
student development office.
“People want to be involved in something that
has a standard of excellence, and in the current job
market they are look.ng for things that makes them a
cut above the usual. Some people, I think, just want
to be involved with people of like character," Young
says.
The office also coordinates new student orienta
tion. Programs sponsored by the orientation office
begin fall term and continue throughout the year and
are designed to get new students started on the right
foot.
During orientation week and the first two weeks
of fall term, the New Student Host Program sponsors
numerous activities aimed at trying to make new
students feel at home on the campus and giving
them helpful hints on survivng their first year at the
University.
More than 150 returning students will serve as
hosts to the new students this fall. The hosts were
recruited spring term last year.
"It's a real big volunteer effort on the part of
students. The students who are hosts get really ex
cited about being helpful, and for the new students
it's really good to be able to come here and have so
meone tell you how to go through Mac Court or buy
a book,” DeCidio says.
The office coordinates another program that
allows students to help each other — peer advising,
some 14 University departments now have peer ad
vising — compared to only one in 1976.
Peer advisers are students who are selected by
their departments and trained to help other students
The internship was
the most valuable
education I received
at the University'
— Kathleen Pyfer
with questions and problems
about University or depart
ment requirements. They serve
as a supplement to faculty ad
visers rather than as a
substitute, says Marge Bray,
graduate student coordinator
for peer advising.
"Peer advising is fun. It of
fers a chance to be of
assistance, an opportunity to
benefit from mistakes you have
made so other people don t make them, Bray says.
But those receiving advice are not the only ones
to benefit from the program. The advisers get
valuable training, Univesity credit, professional ex
perience and an important addition to their resume.
In addition to peer advisers, 160 University
undergraduates worked in 25 University offices or
departments as on-campus interns last year, says
Theresa Squires, student co-ordinator for on-campus
internships.
As Pyfer found out, internships provide practical
learning experiences.
“Interns are given responsibility and duties. They
are expected to act like professionals," Squires says.
Most student internships develop from students
finding a situation on campus that fits their profes
sional goals. The advisers at the Office of Student
Development offer assistance in helping students
figuring out what they want and teaching them how
to get it.
Involvement in a sorority or fraternity can also
enrich a students' time on campus, says Marti
Chaney, Creek adviser in the office.
The benefits go beyond the social activities that
Creeks are well known for, Chaney says.
Creek leaders learn management skills — some
working with budgets up to $150,000 and coor
dinating activities and reponsibilities in houses with
more than 100 residents, she says.
The living environment in a fraternity or sorority
can also help students adapt to University life and
succeed in their studies, since a higher percentage of
Creeks graduate than students at large, Chaney says.
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