TIUA is sponsoring an ASP Yearbook Photo Contest. Each year, students and staff create a yearbook, which reflects all that happened during that year through photographs. For the second year, there is a contest to select some photos for the yearbook. The contest is open to students, staff and faculty of Willamette University, including the American Studies Program, and Tomodachi Program participants. There are some great prizes, including two $50, four $25, and 10 $10 Compass Cash cards. In addition, if your photo is selected, you will be credited in the yearbook.
The contest deadline is April 22.
Beautiful blue sky and sunshine welcomed ninety-eight new Salem residents today. The students arrived at Portland International Airport in Oregon, USA, Monday, February 8. The students looked excited to finally arrive and began their life in America! They will spend the next eleven months participating in the American Studies Program at Willamette University and TIUA. After they found their rooms in one of the residence halls on campus and met their International Peer Coach (IPC), they were officially welcomed by the Willamette community at Goudy for dinner that evening. WU's Dean of Campus Life David Douglass welcomed them to the community and they were then entertained by some WU a capella groups. The rest of the week with be spent in orientations, campus tours, shopping, and making lots of new friends.
To see photos from the first day of the program, click here.
On Monday, February 8, 98 students from Tokyo International University will arrive on the campus of Willamette University. This marks the 28th year since the program began in 1989. In that time, over 2,700 students have enrolled in the one-year American Studies Program (ASP) at Willamette University and Tokyo International University of America.
The students are fully immersed as Willamette University students. They will live in all of the residence halls on campus and the majority will have Willamette University roommates.
After a week of opening days activities, classes will begin on Monday, February 15.
There are several different ways you can get involved with the students.