Graduate Assistant of Academic Affairs, Arkansas Tech University

​Aug 2016 - present

 

- Manage short-term programs with international institution partners including planning, scheduling, budgeting, communicating with partners, and evaluating programs.

- Lead the International Education’s social media presence to promote the College to prospective international students.

- Hire, train, and oversee the international marketing student assistants as they maintain social media sites in a variety of languages, design promotion materials, and communicate effectively with prospective international students.

- Support Chinese students and other minority international student groups on campus for student retention and student success. - Serve as a lead resource to students and partners with regards to housing in homestay and apartment.

- Work closely with student success, outreach, admission, and immigration teams to provide enrollment and retention assistance. - Serve as a primary contact and initiate meaningful engagement with the Confucius Institute of the State of Washington.

- Other duties as assigned, such as orientation, serving on a hiring search committee.  

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Graduate Assistant of Academic Affairs, Arkansas Tech University

​Aug 2014 - Apr 2016

 

​- Assisted the Director of Academic Affairs by organizing faculty files and other records, room reservation, and secretarial support with great confidentiality.

- Received and organized grant proposals for Faculty Research Grant Committee and Professional Development Grant Committee.

- Updated and maintained office webpages on university website via CMS OU Campus.

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Summer Intern of Office of International Affairs, University of Louisiana at Lafayette

​Jul 2015 - Aug 2015

 

​- Organized and presented at Verdunville public schools for Global Education program.

- Designed new version of international student orientation agenda and participated in fall orientation.

- Set up the information table at Lafayette Regional Airport to provide helpful resources and services for arriving international  students.

 

Summer Intern of Office of International Relations, University of Arkansas at Fort Smith

​Jun 2015 - Jul 2015

 

​- Specialized in international student recruitment campaign by adapting and emerging two social media tools, WeChat and QQ.

- Communicated with incoming freshmen and parents about study abroad at new student orientations.

- Promoted marketing for recruitment by translating the admission materials into Chinese.

 

Graduate Assistant of Student Support Services, Arkansas Tech University

​Aug 2014 - Nov 2014

 

​- Established online help for distance TRiO students and provided tutoring support.

- Successfully presented engaging and educated workshops for TRiO students.

- Infromed students with TRiO application procedure and organized student files for interview.

 

Student Worker of International and Multicultural Student Services Office, Arkansas Tech University

​Aug 2011 - May 2014

 

​- Planned and executed numerous events, including International Education Week and International Festival.

- Guided and presented sessions for more than 120 international students at new student orientations.

- Processed international student admission documents and communicated to provide further support.

 

Global Outreach Ambassador of IMSSO, Arkansas Tech University

Jan 2012 - Dec 2013

 

- Successfully recruited three Chinese students by working with high schools in China and one Vietnamese student by holding  campus tours for exchange students in Arkansas.

- Instituted VISA preparation program and conducted VISA mock interview practice for more than 15 prospective students from  India, Pakistan and Iran.

- Recruited, trained and supervised new student ambassadors.

- Organized and presented workshop about setting up international student ambassador program at Northwest Arkansas  Community College.

- Assisted NAFSA Arkansas state liaison with organizing state meetings in 2012 and 2013, held sessions and gave presentations  about student retention strategies during the meetings.

- Attended and volunteered at 2012 NAFSA Annual Conference in Houston, TX.

 

Teaching Assistant of Biological Sciences Department, Arkansas Tech University

Jan 2012 - May 2014

 

- Prepared and cleaned up lab required materials.

- Assisted instructors during labs and grading homework, quiz, and test.

- Completed assigned inquiry experiments to update the lab manual.

 

Undergraduate Research in Chemistry Department, Arkansas Tech Univesity

Aug 2012 - May 2013

 

- Worked on the undergraduate research about ruthenium dimer complex with the mentor of Dr. Bhuiyan.

- Presented in the Senior Honors & Student Research Symposium 2013 at Arkansas Tech University.

- Presented in the 2013 Arkansas Academy of Science Annual Meeting.

- The paper "Synthesis and Characterization of Ruthenium Monomer and Dimer Complexes Containing Phenanthroline and Chloro-Phenanthroline” was published on the Arkansas Academy of Science Journal Volume 67, 2013.