{"id":18652,"date":"2021-11-29T15:24:51","date_gmt":"2021-11-29T20:24:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transy.edu\/1780\/?p=18652"},"modified":"2021-12-08T15:33:56","modified_gmt":"2021-12-08T20:33:56","slug":"transylvania-students-launch-multicultural-and-international-student-organization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transy.edu\/1780\/2021\/11\/transylvania-students-launch-multicultural-and-international-student-organization\/","title":{"rendered":"Transylvania students launch Multicultural and International Student Organization"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"810\" height=\"421\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transy.edu\/1780\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2021\/11\/transylvania_miso-810x421.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-18653\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.transy.edu\/1780\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2021\/11\/transylvania_miso-810x421.jpg 810w, https:\/\/www.transy.edu\/1780\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2021\/11\/transylvania_miso-350x182.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.transy.edu\/1780\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2021\/11\/transylvania_miso-730x379.jpg 730w, https:\/\/www.transy.edu\/1780\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2021\/11\/transylvania_miso-768x399.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.transy.edu\/1780\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2021\/11\/transylvania_miso-300x156.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.transy.edu\/1780\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2021\/11\/transylvania_miso.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 810px) 100vw, 810px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Just in time for this month\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/iew.state.gov\/\">International Education Week<\/a>, Transylvania University students launched a new cultural inclusion organization: the Multicultural and International Student Organization (MISO).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is the work of two bright juniors, Farris Herrington from Cape Town, South Africa, and Shalomel Jatau from Nigeria. Both have come together to promote friendship between students, diversity and the specific needs of multicultural and international students on campus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cOur vision for the organization is to make a permanent safe space and support group for international and multicultural students as well as first-gen students,\u201d Harrington said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Transylvania is committed to the inclusion of members from all over the world, as diversity represents our differences and inclusion is how Transy empowers those differences.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When asked about starting the organization, Omar Bojang, a senior and upcoming MISO member, said, \u201cIt was great to see all the international students in one place, as well as non-international students. It already feels like a strong sense of community, and it feels like the beginning of something special.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The organization remains in its infancy, but with support from faculty in various departments, MISO is set to be a successful addition to the Transy community.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe hope that MISO will be a way to bridge the gap between our international students and the American students on campus so that they can make friends, since we know how hard it is to do this in a foreign country,\u201d Herrington said. A main goal of the group is to push for Transylvania to hire a permanent, full-time international student director\/coordinator.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If student turnout is a reflection of organizational support, then MISO has support from many who look forward to seeing what the program will accomplish in the future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n\n\n\n<p><em>About the author: Kennedy Irakoze \u201923 is a business marketing major from Kigoma, Tanzania, and a work-study student for the Office of Marketing and Communications.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just in time for this month\u2019s International Education Week, Transylvania students launched a new cultural inclusion organization: the Multicultural and International Student Organization.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":41,"featured_media":18653,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"10151,8505,9283,6202,1279,1638","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[78,552],"tags":[802,184],"feeds":[],"class_list":["post-18652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus-updates","category-diversity-inclusion","tag-student-organization","tag-transy-students"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.3 (Yoast SEO v27.4) - 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