This year I worked with three target groups: Russian-Speaking students, FYSH, and Students Interested in the Arts (SIAs).

Russian-Speaking Students

This was my most successful group this year. It consisted of undergraduate, graduate and professional students, as well as recent alumni.

Goals:
1. Identify Russian-speaking students on campus.
2. Encourage students to be more involved in Jewish life
3. Educate them about Judaism in informal settings
4. For the newly arrived, help them to integrate in American life.

Strategies:
1. Have special programs just for Russians.
2. Hang out where other Russians hang out.
3. Ask the students that you have already met for the names of their Russian friends.
4. Have a special Russian email list, and email them just the programs that they would be interested in.
5. Meet “adult” Russians in the community, and try to find young Russians through them.

FYSH (First Year Students of Hillel)

This was my second most successful group this year. FYSH are mostly new Freshmen, but also new transfer students.

Goals:
1. Identify Jewish freshmen and new transfers on campus.
2. Make them involved in Jewish community on campus
3. Identify leaders and encourage them to take more active roles in Hillel

Strategies:
1. Have special programs just for FYSH
2. Hang out where freshmen hang out.
3. Have programs in the dorms.
4. Ask involved freshmen to help identify other Jewish freshmen.

(SIAs) Students Interested in the Arts

Because of the difficulty in identifying such students, this was my least successful group this year. I defined the members of this group as anyone who is interested in any area of the arts, as well as expressing their Judaism through some art form.

Goals:
1. Identify students who are interested in the arts.
2. Organize programs where students feel safe to express their artistic talent.
3. Make students more involved in the Jewish community on campus.

Strategies:
1. Have special programs for students interested in the arts
2. Co-sponsor programs with other student groups that have students with similar interests.