2010/11 - Bechtel International Center - Stanford University

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ORC annual event “Overseas Scholarship Week”–
8 info sessions and an open house during
Spring Quarter April 7-15, 2011. The Scholarship
Week included several scholarship foundation
representatives.
100 Flyers posted around campus advertising
Scholarship Week
10 11x17 Posters posted around campus
advertising Scholarship Week
Overseas Scholarship Week announcements on the
Stanford Events website and the Stanford Report
Emails distributed via the undergraduate Academic
Advisors
Campus Collaboration and Partner Outreach
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1 Presentation at Resident Assistant fall training
(Florence Moore Hall – September 2010)
1 Presentation to PhD candidates in East Asian
Studies Department (September 2010)
4 Outreach fairs with a booth (Student
Sustainability Fair – Oct., Haas Center Year of
Service Fair – Oct., Away from Stanford Fair- Nov.,
Biodiversity Resource Fair for graduate students –
Mar.)
1 Dorm presentation (Crothers Hall – January 2011)
1 Presentation to Native American Cultural Center
(February 2011)
4 South Row Dinners with students at Elizabeth
Bernhardt’s house (April 2011)
1 Joint fellowship outreach session (UAR, Haas
April 2011)
1 Meeting with Black Student Services Community
Center (May 2011)
Scholarships Mentor Match
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25 Rhodes-Marshall applicants who submitted
specified materials were matched with a Rhodes-
Marshall mentor to work with during the summer
61 Fulbright applicants were matched with
Stanford Fulbright Grantee Alumni with regards to
their proposed country or field of study
11 Gates Cambridge candidates were matched
with mentors
3 Luce Scholar Program candidate finalists were
connected with Luce Mentors
Recognition
In April, our new scholars, the successful candidates
going to study in UK in 2011 were invited for a luncheon
with British Consul General, Julian Evans at the Faculty
Club on April 6. We held an Overseas Scholarship
Winners’ Reception on May 23 and invited winners and
their choice of faculty member and panel members. The
names of the scholarship winners are recognized and
posted on the bulletin board in the ORC and on the ORC
website.
Database
In January 2011 the database discussion meetings
with John Pearson, Diane Murk and senior Danny
Crichton began to take place. Danny’s expertise from
his coursework, internships in information technology
companies and experience in designing a similar
database for scholarships for Students in Government
through the Haas Center contributed to the new design
of the ORC scholarship database. Danny was provided
with the ORC database schema that the international
graduate student had designed the previous summer in
2010. The meetings continued over the summer as the
database based on our needs was under development.
The first round of testing was done in early fall 2011
and the project completion is estimated for the end
of January 2012. Our aim is to begin actively using
the database to help track applicants over a span of
years and increase efficiency in the scholarship campus
process in Spring 2012.
IDEA Grant
We applied for the IDEA Grant - Innovation in Diversity,
Engagement and Awareness in January 2011 offered
by Student Affairs and Google. We were awarded
the grant for our Overseas Scholarship Diversity
Outreach project a few months later. The purpose of
this project is to engage Student Affairs staff to help
the ORC increase awareness and knowledge about
international scholarships and funding opportunities
among underrepresented undergraduate and graduate
students and to encourage qualified students to
apply for these awards. The project consists of three
components: 1) To create 3-5 short video film clips of
4-7 past overseas scholarship winners who come from
diverse backgrounds; 2) To design and facilitate an
Overseas Scholarship Diversity Outreach session for the
target group of Student Affairs professionals. These 3-5
minute video clips would be screened during the session;
3) To post the interview film clips on the ORC website as
a resource for future applicants and for the community.
In July 2011, thanks to the funding, we hired Camira
Powell, a junior, Communications major, to coordinate
the project. We also purchased a Sony DCR-SX85 handy
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