Another week come and gone...

Hello everyone! I hope you all had the opportunity to enjoy the fantastic weather (at least in the Philadelphia area) today. I love Spring and I am so happy that the weather is finally beginning to cooperate!

School has been quite busy, as usual, but on Friday I had the opportunity to participate in some of the events for the GSE Diversity Weekend. The event was the idea of Dr. Marybeth Gasman, one of the faculty members at GSE, and with the help of the Admissions office her ideas became reality. The entire event was planned by Jamie, another Graduate Assistant with the Admissions office. She arranged for 15 education undergraduate students from Historically Black Colleges and Univerisities and Hispanic Serving Institutions to come to Philadelphia for a weekend to learn more about graduate school and GSE, and specifically what we are doing to address issues surrounding diversity. I'm sure she will be blogging about the experience, but I think she (with the help of her "right-hand man" Sadiyah) did an amazing job. I only wish I could have spent more time with the students. I think the event was really an important step in developing relationships with this group of talented students as well as the institutions from which they come from.

Today I have been preparing for an interview that I am conducting tomorrow. I am interiewing Dr. David Larsen, the Director for the Center for Education Abroad at Arcadia University. I am interviewing him for one of my courses, EDUC 569 - The Organization and Administration of Student Life. The goal of the interview is to better understand the position he holds as well as what I can do to position myself to one day have a similar job. I have also interviewed the Associate Director at Penn Abroad, which I believe will give me a nice balance when looking at similar positions but at two very different institutions. On the advice of my advisor, I contacted Dr. Larsen during the Fall semester for some guidance regarding my thesis so it will be nice to have the opportunity to meet him in person and let him know that I am nearly done my thesis!

I hope all of my readers have a great week, please feel free to contact me!