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Student Conferences


As part of our commitment to our student leadership, CMSS sponsors trips to three student conferences every year. These experiences are excellent chances for students to learn new leadership skills, including how to portray a professional image as well as how to network with both peers and professionals from throughout the region and nation. Participants attending the conferences are encouraged to bring resumes and dress professionally. Topics vary from year to year, but the experience is consistently high quality.

United States Hispanic Leadership Institute (USHLI)

 February 14 - 17, 2013                                                                                                                                                                Chicago, Illinois  

For information, please contact Ms. LaNita Weisenberger at weisenls@jmu.edu.

African American Student Leadership Experience

January 3 - 6, 2013 
Arlington, Virginia

For more information, please contact Ms. LaNita Weisenberger at weisenls@jmu.edu.

East Coast Asian American Student Union Conference (ECAASU)

February 24 - 26, 2013
Columbia University
New York City

For more information, please contact Ms. LaNita Weisenberger at weisenls@jmu.edu.


alternative spring break


CMSS' Alternative Spring Break (ASB) program is done in collaboration with the Community Service Learning Office. A group of 10 students will use their entire spring break to immerse themselves in service and various cultural environments. This year the focus of the trip will be hunger and family homelessness, as we travel to work with the Interfaith Shelter at First United Methodist Church in Winter Park, FL. First United is one church in a network of churches dedicated to helping families in need.

Serving as both evening and overnight hosts, we will assist with dinner preparations, evening activities, helping the children with their homework, and enjoying general family interaction. We will also assist in the mornings by preparing breakfast, helping families with lunch preparations, and anything else needed to prepare them for work or school.

Throughout the remaining portions of the day, students will be immersed in the various cultures in the surrounding areas. Through this experience, students develop new cultural awareness and knowledge regarding the trip themes and issues, while increasing self-awareness, self-understanding and personal responsibility.

For more information please contact Ms. LaNita Weisenberger at weisenls@jmu.edu.