Thank You CAE Sponsors!

Center for Academic Excellence students are very grateful for those individuals and groups who have supported our expedition financially. We recognize that this trip would not have been possible without the generosity of our sponsors who support global relations and cultivating global citizenship. We would like to recognize and thank these important individuals and groups for providing us with the opportunity to gain cultural knowledge about China. We will bring this knowledge and our experiences back to the University to share with our peers.

Damon Williams the Vice Provost for Diversity and Climate Damon Williams
Gary Sandefur the Dean of the College of Letters and Science
Gilles Bousquet the Vice Provost for Globalization, and Head of UW-Madison's International Studies Division
PEOPLE Program of UW-Madison
Student Academic Affairs Office (SAA)
Pathway Student Academic Services
Academic Advancement Program (AAP)

In addition to financial assistance, many other individuals have worked hard changing the idea of an international trip into reality! We would also like to thank Erin Polnaszek the Study Abroad Advisor for China for assisting us in planning as well as Professor Tuli for speaking with the students and his helpful advise on leading a delegation. Xiaojum Lu from the Bacteriology Department helped us immensely by translating letters from UW-Madison Staff into Chinese. Finally, we would like to thank the AAP and Pathways staff who have supported our trip, especially Tanya Figueroa who helped organize our fundraisers and workshops, and Jan Lucchesi who is acting as our point person in the USA while we travel abroad.

Furthermore, we held a raffle on August 10th to help support our trip. We would like to recognize our family and friends who purchased tickets along with many staff members from a plethora of offices at UW-Madison. We greatly appreciate the continual support of staff and their dedication to improving the Wisconsin Experience for students. Finally, we would like to thank the Sitta family for donating Packer tickets to our raffle, Badger Trips and Ann Groves Lloyd for donating the Las Vegas land package, and DeVon Williams for donating a travel voucher through Our World Travel, and finally, Fresh City Market for donating ice cream during the ticket drawing.
Many other people and organizations have helped us along the way with planning, organization, cultural education and advice, and continual support of our students. Thank you again to everyone who has helped us in any capacity!