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Campus Closeup
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| Shivani Kackar and two of her colleagues
in Undergraduate Admissions are training for a half-marathon
in May, and raising $3,700 each for the Leukemia and Lymphoma
Society in order to participate. (Photo by Peter Frey) |
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Shivani Kackar
Admissions Counselor
Undergraduate Admissions
JOB DESCRIPTION: “As an admissions counselor,
I serve as a recruiter for the university. I travel to different
areas of the country, mainly Virginia, Maryland and Washington,
D.C., recruiting first-year students and helping them, and transfer
students, through the application process. I also serve as an
adviser to the Georgia Recruitment Team, an organization run
by student volunteers.”
YEARS IN CURRENT
POSITION: One and a half.
TYPICAL
DAY: “I think one of the good things about my
job is that no day is the same as the previous day. Typically,
I will spend a good part of my day speaking with students and
parents, or following up with students I’ve met on the
road. I also help out with the different publications in our
office.”
MOST REWARDING PART OF MY JOB:
“Feeling as though you’ve influenced a young person
in his or her decision-making process and being able to open
students’ minds to the possibilities that UGA has to offer
is really rewarding. Especially when you get students who call
or e-mail you and tell you that they’re really excited
they were admitted.”
PREVIOUS WORK EXPERIENCES:
“When I was in college [at the University of Virginia],
I served as the student chair of a 20-person board of directors
for a non-profit organization called Madison House. It is the
largest campus-based community service organization in the country,
with about 3,000 community and student volunteers.
“I also taught math for high school, some gifted and some
remedial education.”
IF I WASN’T DOING THIS JOB, I WOULD MOST LIKE TO:
“I really enjoy traveling, so in an ideal world I would
have a yacht and could sail around the world. I studied abroad
[in Valencia, Spain] in college and traveled a lot then. Learning
about people from other cultures and backgrounds has always
been really exciting for me.”
OFF-THE-JOB
INTERESTS: “Right now I’m involved with
the Team in Training, which is the fund-raising arm of the Leukemia
and Lymphoma Society, a non-profit organization that provides
patient services and research for blood-related cancers. Around
Thanksgiving, two other people from Admissions, Sarah Helwick
and Rebecca Buffington, began training with me for the Adidas
International [Half] Marathon in Vancouver in May. We committed
to raising $3,700 each by the marathon, and I’ve raised
about $1,600 so far through donations from family and friends.
“We are training in honor of Bruce Morgan, our local
patient-hero, who is battling chronic leukemia. Amazingly, he’s
training for the Country Music Marathon in Nashville in April.
He’s truly an inspiration, and keeps us going when we
have to get up early in the morning.
“I got involved
with the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society because my boyfriend’s
mother is a survivor of non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, and I’ve
seen the lasting effects of how this disease can change a family’s
life. This is one cause that’s hit close to home for me,
so I thought it was a good reason to get up and do something.
“To help raise awareness for the Society and these
diseases, and to raise the $3,700 each we committed to raising,
we’re having our first fund-raising event downtown at
Wild Wing Cafe, March 20 from 7 p.m. to 2 a.m. ”
THE ISSUE THAT CONCERNS ME MOST ABOUT TODAY’S
WORLD: “That there aren’t more people out
there doing good works because they think success is related
more to their wealth rather than to the people they help and
the impact they can make in a community.
“I think
there is a need for people who question why things are the way
they are to find out what we can do not only to fix the problem,
but also to get to the root of the problem so that it doesn’t
continue.” |
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