About the Ram Welcome Leader Experience....

• 100% of 2012 Ram Welcome Leaders Agree or Strongly Agree that serving as a Ram Welcome Leader reinforced CSU pride and tradition for them.

• 100% of 2012 Ram Welcome Leaders Agree or Strongly Agree that serving as a Ram Welcome Leader provided them with the opportunity to enhance their commitment to CSU.
• 99% of 2012 Ram Welcome Leaders Agree or Strongly Agree that based upon their involvement as a Ram Welcome Leader, they feel as if they have created a connection with their peers.
• 99% of 2012 Ram Welcome Leaders Agree or Strongly Agree that based upon their involvement as a Ram Weclome Leader they feel as if they created a connection with new CSU students.
• 100% of 2012 Ram Welcome Leaders Agree or Strongly Agree that serving as a Ram Welcome Leader provided them with the opportunity to enhance thier current leadership development.
• "My experience this year as a Ram Welcome Leader has allowed me to gain even more CSU pride than I had before. I learned a lot of new facts and traditions about our university I did not know of before. It was really great to see so many Ram Welcome Leaders with such strong CSU pride and respect."- 2012 RWL
  
• "Through serving as a Ram Welcome Leader I gained friends, a sense of leadership, a stretched comfort zone and memories that have made my CSU experience better than ever.  I can honestly say 2012 Ram Welcome was the best weekend of college at CSU for me." -2012 RWL
• As a Ram Welcome Leader I gained a sense of urgency and passion to make the most of my CSU experience and by that I mean that Ram Welcome inspired me to continue pursuing relationships with everyone; people in my classes, people I see walking around campus, anybody! It has completely changed the way I walk around this campus; insted of just going from class to class, I am looking for opportunities to build relationships and lead when I can." -2012 RWL
• "By being a Ram Welcome Leader, I gained a deeper insight into what CSU stands for and what the students of CSU value."- 2010 RWL
• “I have been in leadership programs for the past ten years, and I can quite honestly say that Ram Welcome made me realize I still had so much room to improve. Ram Welcome made me a more confident leader, by pushing me out of my comfort zone, and leaving me working with of a group of students.”- 2011 RWL

• "Through being a Ram Welcome Leader, I gained a new sense of pride in being part of the CSU community.  Before this, I took pride in being a CSU student, but after this experience, it made me realize that there is so much more to CSU."- 2010 RWL
• "I gained a strong sense of Ram pride through the Ram Welcome experience.  At the University Welcome, I felt so proud to initiate the cheers and get the new students standing up and cheering along with me. I have never so much a part of CSU as I did (and have ever since the University Welcome)."- 2010 RWL
• "I gained more friendships and relationships with freshmen and other Ram Welcome Leaders through the Ram Welcome Leader experience. Ram Welcome really is like a reinforcement of why I love CSU and I continue to come here. i love what we have to offer and all of the staff that really devote so much of their time and energy into making sure the students are having the experience that is the best possible."- 2010 RWL
• "I got reconnected with my campus and made new bonds with many of my peers as a Ram Welcome Leader. It reminded me why I love this school and gave me the opportunity to show others how it can be a wonderful place for them too." - 2010 RWL
• "I have to say that my leadership ability is easily 100 times better now than it was before. Being able to lead group meetings in such an important program helped me stop questioning my own authority and get over inhibitions I had about being in a leadership role. I find it so easy to simply go up to students - even in groups - and just begin talking to them, and that is no doubt because of Ram Welcome." -2011 RWL

• I feel like  I just gained an abundance of things from Ram Welcome Leader experience. I never thought going into the position I would have grown as much as I did. Leadership skills, new friends, new connections, an established connection to CSU, a school pride I had not experienced before." -2010 RWL
• "I really do feel way more connected to the CSU community through meeting the incoming students, working with my fellow ram welcome leaders, and working with other people behind the scenes. I loved being able to attend the green out welcome speech. It really did instill me with hope or the next year that I'm here. I think that was a great idea!" -2010 RWL
• "I think something I gained from this experience that I will forever appreciate is confidence. I feel I know have more confidence in my ability to be a leader to new students and my peers. I also have more confidence in CSU as an institution and all the great opportunities there are. This helps give me the motivation to get even more involved on campus and encourage others to do the same." - 2010 RWL
• "Through the bonds with other students involved in RW I made amazing new friends that I already had a ton in common with. It was really refreshing meeting over 100 people in one day and realizing there was potential a great friendship with each of them. This helped enhance leadership and so did facilitating activities with our halls. I learned so much about how to work as a leader with the students in my hall, they were a ton of fun and i loved working with them. I enjoyed being a mentor, tour guide, question answerer, and a consistent connection between them and the university." - 2011 RWL

• "It was exactly what i need as a senior to get excited about my year to come. I was kind of hesitant on how this semester was going to go for me. After ram welcome I have more desire to get involved in more areas within this last year that i am here!" -2010 RWL