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Dine-A-Dozen

Angelo State University values student engagement and the promotion of student participation and community involvement. In that vein every fall Angelo State University joins forces with San Angelo community leaders and ASU alumni to welcome our new students into the community. Approximately 150 new students are nominated each September by faculty and staff to participate in ASU's Dine-A-Dozen program. The purpose of the program is to connect new students with fellow new students and also to introduce them to our fine community. Families and/or community groups help us to achieve this goal by opening their homes and/or businesses to host a group of 10 new students (who are accompanied by an ASU faculty or staff member and a returning student leader - making a "Dozen" people) for an evening of food, conversation, and fun. Often, students and their hosts will enjoy their new friendships so much that many continue to foster their Dine-A-Dozen connections throughout the academic year! Additionally, the Dine-A-Dozen groups reunite in the spring semester when the students join us in entertaining their host families with a dinner held on our beautiful ASU campus.

The office of Student Life at ASU is sincerely thankful to the 2008 hosts, student leaders and faculty/staff drivers for helping us to promote innovations in collaborative partnerships and community support and most importantly, student engagement and development. The students in this year's Dine-A-Dozen program were a fabulous group! The list included 108 student participants, eight student leaders, and seven faculty and staff drivers. We received several thank-you notes and calls from many of the hosts as well as students and, in addition, we have had four of the new students request to be called to be student leaders for next year's Dine-A-Dozen program!

Please join us in recognizing our wonderful 2008-2009 Dine-A-Dozen hosts: