AUAP to hold opening ceremony Feb. 23

The Asia University America Program at Western Washington University will hold a welcoming ceremony at 4 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 23, to welcome 25 students from Tokyo's Asia University. The students will begin a five-month English language and cultural orientation program at Western.

The ceremony will take place in Viking Union Room 462, with a dessert reception immediately afterward. This event is free and open to the public.

The AUAP offers students from Asia University in Tokyo an opportunity to study abroad at WWU. The goal of the program is to provide Asia University students with high quality English language instruction and culturally enriching extracurricular activities, while at the same time offering WWU students, faculty and staff unique opportunities for language and cultural interaction, exchange and involvement. For more information, visit http://www.wwu.edu/auap/.