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Country Alumni Ambassador Information
Welcome Country Alumni Ambassadors
Country Alumni Ambassadors
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Who are Country Alumni Ambassadors?
Country Alumni Ambassador Handbook
Frequently Asked Questions
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Who Are Country Alumni Ambassadors?
Country Alumni Ambassadors are volunteers who assist prospective and accepted students and their families with questions about studying at RIT and living in the Rochester area.
Their duties and responsibilities may include some or all of the following:
- Contacting prospective and accepted undergraduate and graduate students by mail, phone and/or e-mail.
- Answering questions of prospective and accepted students and their families.
- Accompanying RIT Admissions officers and other RIT faculty and staff on school visits, at college fairs and alumni events.
- Representing RIT at college fairs and school visits and conducting information sessions for accepted students.
- Contacting secondary schools, colleges and universities to assess their interest in receiving information from RIT and following up with those that do.
- Maintaining and forwarding a log of students and alumni contacted, educational institutions contacted and visited, and lists of "frequently asked questions" to Sonja Phongsavanh on a regular basis.
- Maintaining contact with other RIT alumni in your home country.
What is the Relationship between the Country Alumni Ambassadors and RIT Administrators?
Country Alumni Ambassadors are responsible for working with prospective and accepted students, contacting other RIT alumni in their home country and for maintaining a reporting relationship with the Graduate Enrollment Office. The Graduate Enrollment Office will ensure that the Ambassadors have the training, tools, materials and support of the university to meet their responsibilities.
Country Alumni Ambassadors are an extremely important resource in fulfilling RIT's mission and goal to achieve diversity and pluralism in its student body and on its campus.