My senior year during my time as an undergraduate at Hiram College I interned with our Office of Campus Involvement (OCI). I was a very involved student leader, but I was not very well versed in the administrative side of event planning and student engagement. I worked with Alex Ulbricht, one of my two mentors who are the reason I pursued higher education and student affairs as a career ath.

Some of the work I did included

• Updated Hiram College website
  • Our student organizations descriptions and webpages had not been updated in a long time. A part of my responsibility was going through the 70+ organizations descriptions and updating them so future students could know what to expect!
• Marketing
  • OCI was an office of one and it was difficult to brainstorm, market, implement, and assess all of the programs offered. When I could, I created publicity materials to be sent out to the campus.
    • Chipotle Party 
    • Last Call Cleveland
• Even Planning
  • I was tasked with creating documents on “how to event plan” for different types of events that student organizations or students-at-large could plan.
    • General Event
    • Marketing 101
    • Movie Night
    • One Day Excursion
    • Overnight Excursion
    • Party without Alcohol
    • Party with Alcohol
• Orientation
  • OCI had been recently given responsibility for overseeing Orientation and my experience as an Orientation Leader for two years made me a perfect choice for doing some work!
  • Benchmark: I researched similar institutions’ Orientation programs as a part of a benchmark to determine if there were changes that other institutions had made that might be feasible for Hiram College to make in the future.
  • Orientation Leader Cheat Sheet
    • I created a packet for Orientation Leader Training that had facts about Hiram College that students may ask about. It also had a FAQ section created from my experience.
    • Check it out here