{"id":15266,"date":"2012-01-18T16:16:40","date_gmt":"2012-01-18T16:16:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/?p=15266"},"modified":"2017-11-13T15:26:12","modified_gmt":"2017-11-13T20:26:12","slug":"new-graduate-student-organization-promotes-diversity-and-involvement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/2012\/01\/new-graduate-student-organization-promotes-diversity-and-involvement\/","title":{"rendered":"New graduate student organization promotes diversity and involvement."},"content":{"rendered":"

College of Business Administration graduate students looking for a way to connect on a personal and professional level with fellow students now have a new way to do so: the Chapman International Students Association (CISA).<\/p>\n

With support from the Chapman Graduate School of Business at Florida International University (FIU), CISA encourages students to become involved on campus and in the community.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur vision is to create an atmosphere that is welcoming to graduate students who come to FIU from all parts of the country and the world,\u201d said Amir Vasquez, CISA president. \u201c<\/p>\n

Vasquez notes that the new organization now has around 25 members—and is still growing.<\/p>\n

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Jared Roeckner (United States) joined FIU Business graduate students Tara Boulos (Haiti), who is engaged to Roeckner; Peng Chen (China); Sylvester Gyan (Ghana); Priscilla Ferreira (Brazil); Ruslan Imadiyev (Kazakhstan); Amir Vasquez (Belize); and Ruben Edwards (Puerto Rico) at the first meeting of the Chapman International Students Association.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re a very diverse group,\u201d he said. \u201cWe have members between the ages of 21 and 40 and from locations as diverse as Belize, China, Haiti and Kazakhstan.\u201d<\/p>\n

Priscilla Ferreira (MSHRM \u201906, MBA \u201900), senior manager, graduate recruitment, adds that \u201cthe club was formed to facilitate interaction among students enrolled in different graduate degree programs as well as to offer a home-away-from-home to our students.\u201d<\/p>\n

First club activities are a sign of great things to come.<\/em><\/p>\n

The newly formed CISA hosted a well-attended potluck Thanksgiving dinner in November 2011, and a toy drive for Miami Children\u2019s Hospital in December 2011.<\/p>\n

\u201cFuture CISA events will focus on not only building friendships and networking connections but also will include more community service activities as well as guest speakers, company visits and professional development,\u201d Vasquez said.<\/p>\n

The organization is also committed to enabling members to attend area conferences at little or no cost.<\/p>\n

\u201cSome of us attended the Greater Miami Chamber of Commerce Economic Summit on January 13, 2012 for free.\u201d Vasquez said. \u201cIt was a great opportunity to meet with the business community and gain insight and knowledge on the outlook for South Florida\u2019s key industries in 2012.\u201d<\/p>\n

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College of Business Administration graduate students looking for a way to connect on a personal and professional level with fellow students now have a new way to do so: the Chapman International Students Association (CISA). With support from the Chapman Graduate School of Business at Florida International University (FIU), CISA encourages students to become involved […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[70,388,390,442,2116,2155,2333,2337,2507,2541],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15266"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15266"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15266\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29740,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15266\/revisions\/29740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}