International Orientation (Pre-Registration Required)

GANNETT HEALTH SERVICES AND COUNSELING & PSYCHOLOGICAL SERVICES (CAPS)
Sharon Dittman and Wai-Kwong Wong
It is Sharon Dittman’s privilege to play a coordination role in Gannett Health Promotion. Her colleagues are all passionate, committed, creative people, and she encourages you to look for opportunities to connect with them. They strive to work closely and collaboratively with Gannett staff, campus partners, and student leaders to create a healthy environment within which students can thrive, physically, emotionally, socially, spiritually, and academically. Her special areas of focus include communications, patient advocacy, and emergency planning. Sharon draws inspiration from many sources, including Maya Angelou: "Love builds up the broken wall and straightens the crooked path. Love keeps the stars in the firmament and imposes rhythm on the ocean tides. Each of us is created of it and i suspect each of us was created for it.

Wai-Kwong Wong was born in Hong Kong but moved when he was seven years old to New York City. A product (some would argue a consequence) of the city public school system, he attended the University of Chicago largely because his best friend told him that that was where Indiana Jones had studied. Armed with his sophisticated decision-making abilities, the aspiring adventurer/explorer drifted through several majors, strongly considering Anthropology at one point before settling on Sociology. After graduating in 1989, he held positions in several non-profit agencies working with the developmentally disabled, the chronically mentally ill, and individuals with HIV before returning to graduate school at the University of Virginia, where he did research on delinquency, ethnic youth gangs, and ethnic identity. He completed his pre-doctoral internship at UMass Amherst, and has been at Cornell since 1999. His interests include multicultural counseling, grief, depression, anxiety and identity issues.

INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS AND SCHOLARS OFFICE (ISSO)

Sarah Hilsman ’84, Associate Director for Student Immigration Services