SUMMER NODA

INTERNSHIP
Tasmia Moosani | Internship Seminar | Erin Swezey
OVERVIEW
Institution
Department, Supervisor, & My Role
Workplan: Objectives, Tasks, and
Learning Outcomes
Teachable Content
Theory
Summary
Questions
SEATTLE UNIVERSITY
#GOREDHAWKS

Private, 4 year
Jesuit Catholic
Fall 2017 Stats: 7,278 students ( 4,647
Undergraduate, 1,991 Graduate, & 640 Law)
Mission: Seattle University is dedicated to
educating the whole person, to professional
formation, and to empowering leaders for a
just and humane world.
 ORIENTATION
PROGRAMS

Leah Quinn - DIrector of

Orientation Programs

Jackie Heymann - NODA Intern

from Michigan

3 Orientation coordinators

22 Orientation advisors
 SUMMER IN
SEATTLE

4 Summer in Seattle Sessions

2 day - Overnight Orientation

Student Track & Family Track

Welcomed 1100~ students & 600

families/guests
 WORK PLAN OBJECTIVES
#1 Understand the foundations
and emerging nature of the
Student Affairs profession and
To gain knowledge and higher education
skills related to the #2 Understand students and
Student Orientation student issues
Programming and #3 Exhibiting professional
Family Orientation integrity and ethical leadership
programming including in professional practice
#5 Adapting student services to
resources, presenters, specific environments
and supervision #6 Demonstrating skills in
experience. leadership and collaboration
#10 Establishing and enhancing
professional identity
 #7 Utilizing assessment,
evaluation, technology
To learn and gain and research to improve
knowledge with practice
assessment for  
programs and student #8 Communicating
growth. effectively in speech and
writing
 #1 Understand the foundations
and emerging nature of the
Student Affairs profession and
higher education
To gain knowledge and #2 Understand students and
skills related to the student issues
Orientation Functional #3 Exhibiting professional
Area including planning integrity and ethical leadership
in professional practice
trainings, on campus #5 Adapting student services to
collaborating, and specific environments
learning a different #6 Demonstrating skills in
orientation model. leadership and collaboration
#8 Communicating effectively
in speech and in writing
#10 Establishing and enhancing
professional identity
 SPECIFIC TASKS
Supervise/Mentor orientation coordinators and
advisors directly
Design and implement trainings before Summer in
Seattle (SiS) and in between SiS Sessions, & after SiS
Collaborate with campus partners to ensure
presentations, workshops, and things as needed were
ready to go for each Orientation
Create and conduct assessment
All administrative work
Ensuring family/guests needs are being accommodated
and OA's on family track were ready before each SiS.
TEACHABLE
CONTENT
ACTIVITY
1. Why is learning about unconscious bias
important?

2. How do you check your own biases?

3. What techniques do you use to remove

bias?
 THEORY
Schlossberg's Transition Theory

Yosso's Community Cultural Wealth

Pope and Reynolds' Multicultural

Competence
 SUMMARY
Combining the institutional context,
my experience, and how I used theory
to inform my practice, I grew in my
ability to navigate student affairs
work at Seattle university.
Translated theories to focus on
marginalized students and to
advocate for those who are not part
of the conversation
Training/Learning/ Unlearning
should be a continuing process
THANK YOU!
QUESTIONS?