PRE-ORIENTATION INTRODUCTION & TEAM BUILDING

One of the perks of being in the International Leadership Program is that we bring you in a day early for a pre-orientation.  Besides your being able to move in a day before your roommate, this means that you and your family will have a chance to be introduced to the program and your ILP classmates before the semester begins.  During this pre-orientation we will provide leadership activities so that your group starts feeling like a team even before you enter the classroom.

Reception

We invite incoming ILP scholars along with their families to a brief reception where the director for the International & Area Studies Program, Priscilla Stone and the Dean of Arts and Sciences will welcome these families into Washington University and the International Leadership Program.  During this reception, students will also be introduced to their four-year advisors, their ILP faculty, and their peer advisors.  This reception will be held in the late afternoon prior to the general freshman move-in-day.

ILP Night Fun & Team-Building

After the ILP reception we allow for students and their families to spend a few hours for dinner and moving in, after which we ask ILP students to reconvene for an evening of team-building exercises.  These activities provide space and time for students to get to know each other meanwhile challenging students to start examining how international issues relate back to themselves as American students.

World Game Exercise

On the day that most freshman students are moving into their dorms, we bring ILP students together to engage in a “World Game Simulation” where students represent different regions, corporate interests, media outlets and non-profit organizations in order to solve a global problem.