Nine undergraduate students with majors in the College of Arts and Sciences are among 32 who will serve as orientation leaders for summer 2023, helping welcome more than 4,500 students and their family members.
Through orientation, students and their families learn about campus resources, expectations, requirements, norms, success strategies and more. Orientation leaders facilitate small-group interactive activities for students, provide a nontraditional campus tour for parents and guests, and assist with daily logistics such as parking and check-in. For the interactive activities and tour, the leaders develop and deliver their own content about navigating college life, succeeding academically and socially, and persevering through challenges.
These roles are among the most competitive and prestigious student leadership positions at the university. The students were selected through a rigorous application process that attracted many of the university's top students. Candidates were evaluated based on their campus involvement, work experience, essay responses, professional references and performance during a 3-hour, multi-part interview.
Maddie Ames
Political Science, Journalism (CoJMC)
Crystal Carrillo
Spanish
Grace Charlesworth
Psychology
Preston Kotik
Biochemistry
Loui Mercadante
Meteorology and Climatology, Spanish
Emmerson Putnam
Biological Sciences
Ellie Reznicek
Psychology
Jayda Starks
Psychology
Sophi Throener Rodriguez
History
