International students gain peer mentors

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International students gain peer mentors

http://www.yaledailynews.com/articles/view/23514

Raymond Carlson
Staff Reporter
Published Thursday, February 14, 2008

For international students arriving in New Haven for the first time the summer before their freshman year, a network of returning overseas Elis working for the Orientation for International Students will help ease their initial transition into college. But after the frenzy of "Camp Yale" has passed, international students looking for help adjusting to a new school — and country — are largely on their own.

Proposed changes to the University's freshman-counselor program will help to remedy this problem. The reforms will establish a peer mentoring program for international students similar to other new programs for disabled students as well as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer students.