Growing Oceanic and Asian American Leaders (GOAAL) is a MESA Welcome Program that focuses on community-building and leadership development.
In collaboration with the Oceanic Student Association (OSA) and United Asian American Organizations (UAAO), it is offered to all incoming first-year and transfer students through the lenses of the Asian American and Pacific Islander experiences. Participants will explore and critically think about identity, cross-group coalition building, and leadership. Through these introductory experiences, MESA hopes to demonstrate how orientations, history and current events, and social structures influence identities and leadership in the Asian American and Pacific Islander communities.
Key dates
Program held
August 23, 2024, 12:00 - 4:30 p.m.
August 24, 2024, 1:00 - 3:00 p.m.
Times are subject to change.
Priority deadline to commit
August 2, 2024
Eligibility and capacity
This program is open to first-year and transfer students at the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor. Up to 60 students may participate in the GOAAL welcome programs. A waitlist will be created with registrations once capacity is reached, and openings due to late cancelations will be offered to those on the waitlist in the order in which their registration was received.
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