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During my years at Edinburgh University as a Senior Administrator in Housing and Student Affairs, I travelled extensively throughout the world, and particularly in the United States. Having been elected to international posts, I have represented Edinburgh University abroad, and attended many symposia and conferences.

For eleven years I was warden of one of Edinburgh University's last traditional Halls of Residence. During that period I dealt with the entire spectrum of community living and pastoral care in a Hall of Residence with a healthy mix of faculty, nationality and academic year of study. In the course of my career at the University of Edinburgh and in my travels abroad many students, staff and parents outlined the difficulties and anxieties of arriving in a foreign country, at an unfamiliar airport and coping with that critical period of transition to a new environment and culture.

Christina Orr

Recipient of the first National Association of Student Personnel Administrators award for Excellence in International Education, presented at their international symposium in Indianapolis.