CIPE Student Advisory Committee--Application
Thank you for your interest in serving on the CIPE Student Advisory Committee! Student interests are critical drivers of CIPE programming and the [9] member Student Advisory
Committee will be an important source of input and guidance about the interest of our student body. CIPE aims to strike a balance between creating established programming and ensuring there is space for student-generated ideas to flourish in the field of international programming, leadership and citizenship programming, and career services. The role of the Student Advisory
Committee will be to give voice to the incredibly wide-ranging interests of our student body, to help reflect student priorities to Centre, to serve as ambassadors for CIPE in partner engagement and outreach, and to support CIPE programs as needed (presence at CIPE events, introducing speakers, serving as emcees).
We also hope that serving on the Student Advisory Committee will give students a broad familiarity with the field of experience-based learning and will provide a meaningful opportunity to develop important leadership skills as strategic thinking, decision-making, facilitation, presentations skills and organizational experience.
Working with such a pioneering, talented and enthusiastic group of students is the best part of working at Yale-NUS. It’s why we’re all here. Thanks for considering serving on the CIPE Student
Advisory Committee. We look forward to seeing your application!
Background about CIPE:
Yale-NUS has established an innovative Centre for International and Professional Experience to create a portfolio of global opportunities that will enhance our students’ academic learning, broaden their perspectives and hone the skills and character they need to succeed as students today and leaders tomorrow.
The Centre integrates traditionally separate and often silo-ed components of experience-based learning (such as study abroad, summer sessions, internships, career services, leadership and service programming, research attachments) under one roof. This allows for a studentcentered and holistic approach to the personal, professional and intellectual development of our students.
The Centre will have a team of dedicated advisors who will work with every Yale-NUS student to craft an individualized portfolio of learning opportunities. CIPE counselors will provide support for navigating the available opportunities, help identify areas for improvement and connect students with the best matches for maximizing their growth. The Centre will also offer guidance in how to choose the right opportunity and preparation to help launch each student in his or her new milieu.

CIPE Student Advisory Committee--Application
Instructions:
Each applicant is asked to submit one of the following items by September 10, 2014.
 Short answer (up to 500 words) to one of the questions below via email to navid.ladha@yale-nus.edu.sg. In the subject line of your email please write: SAC
Application and your name
OR

1 minute video response to one of the questions below (to be uploaded according to instructions below)
Questions: Please choose one of the three and reply by video or in writing. There are no right or wrong answers, so please do your best without further guidance about “what we are looking for.”
1.
Why do you want to join the CIPE Student Advisory Committee?
2.
“A ship in a harbour is safe, but that is not what ships are built for." (William Shedd).
Describe a time when you found yourself outside of your comfort zone and discuss why it was valuable or difficult.
3.
If you had all the time and resources in the world, if you could do anything, what would it be and why?
Instructions for Uploading Video:
Please keep videos to between 30-60 seconds in length, do not exceed the 50 MB size limit, and feel free to be creative!
1.
Upload your pre-recorded video to www.youtube.com
(please create a new account if you do not have one).
2.
Please use Firebox browser as it has been tested to work well and note that compatible video formats are .MOV, .MPEG4, .AVI, .3GPP and WebM.
3.
IMPORTANT - During the uploading process, please set your “Privacy settings” to
“Private” and input cipe@yale-nus.edu.sg
as the designated recipient of the video that you have attached. This step is critical so that CIPE will be able to receive the link to your video.
4.
Please remember to title the video submission based on this format -
FirstName_LastName_SAC