FIRST-YEAR EXPERIENCE
(502) 597-6217

MISSION STATEMENT

The First-Year Experience program assists incoming students in their transitions toward successful development in academic and non-academic areas of university life.  Supporting both Academic and Student Affairs through cooperation and collaboration, we counsel and advise new students, offer peer tutoring and mentoring services, while acknowledging the diversity within and among our students.  Learning from the Land Grant and Liberal Arts traditions, First-Year Experience is committed to advocacy and the empowering of new students as they sojourn through the many phases of university life towards graduation.

First-Year Experience offers transitional, academic support and development support services and programming to incoming freshmen, transfer students, and commuter students.  Our programming includes:

Student Transitional Services
Orientation activities
Parent orientation session
Student Survival Guides
Needs assessments (surveys, evaluations, etc.)
Student advocacy services for academic and non-academic concerns
A shared summer reading activity