Subject: FW: Additions/revisions-2008 new student Orientation
Attachments: Orientation 08 Proposed Changes.doc; 08 Orientation Schedule- Student.doc; 08 Orientation Schedule- Parent.doc; 08 Orientation Casper Plan- Drop in.doc
From:
Ilona J. Reif
Sent: Wednesday, September 19, 2007 10:21 AM
To: A&S Department Heads (depts-as@uwyo.edu)
Subject: FW: Additions/revisions-2008 new student Orientation
Hello department heads and program directors,
The following email and attachments were sent to the A&S Advising Coordinators. It is very important that you and your Coordinator as well as your faculty and staff advisors are well aware of this –especially in planning course schedules for summer and vacations. I know that this will require some juggling and a change in our thinking of orientation as a June thing…but bear with me. Thank you.
Hello A&S Advising Coordinators!
This is very important- and a bit lengthy, but I want to get the details to you.I will also send this email and attachments to the department heads/program directors and the main staff people who are on the distribution list so some of you will get a duplicate email.
The Admissions Orientation Coordinators, Pepper Jo Six and Mary Aguayo, have planned and proposed additions and revisions for the 2008 New Student Orientation sessions(and are going ahead with the revised plans). Please read the attached document on changes for 2008 orientation sessions to get the background and rationale for the changes and review the orientation schedules as well. Any minor tweaking or suggestions/questions should be forwarded ASAP.
To summarize the main items and impact on faculty/staff advisors in each College:
1. April 18, 2007, a pilot project for advising new transfer students. In addition to the April 14, 2008 Transfer Orientation Advising & Registration, a pilot program to advise transfer students at Casper College with a group of experienced advisors and degree analysts from Laramie will travel to Casper, WY to advise and assist students in scheduling fall 2008 classes. See the attached "Casper Plan” for Transfer Students. --onsite”
A&S departments and the College will need to discuss how to manage the advising--we will need to determine who will travel to Casper for that day. Admissions intends to have transcript evaluations (and a degree evaluation-CAPP-- printed out?) completed for the transfer students who will participate at Casper College. That would make it possible for several advisors from Laramie to advise the varied majors in A&S. (Ilona plans to go; Dawn Carver would be there, probably Becky Despain and then a few-maybe two or three -- more or less depending upon the expected transfers in Casper-- experienced A&S staff advisors could also volunteer (a few from these and other possibilities: Melanie Stinson, Jo Marie Paintin, Jeanette Reisenburg, Jesse Swanson, Jack Chapman, Kris Wold...). It will be necessary for the department of the major to provide advising recommendations for every expected student going to the Casper session.
2. Two 2-day specialty Orientation sessions for two subsets of new students:
1)new Honors Program students (session on June 2-3)
2)new Synergy students(admitted with conditions)(total number of this group is set at 144 students) (session tentatively on June 23-24)
As stated in the attached document, these specialty sessions "would offer targeted break-out sessions that would be pertinent to their admission status......enhance the experience and help advisors deal with distinct groups better."
Advising would be in your departments/programs on the first day around 1:30 or so after the brief A&S College session and until about 4:30. There are some advantages for advisors in having a homogenous group to advise—the Honors students have at least one –maybe two courses in which they know they will enroll and the Synergy students will have 3 in which they are already registered.
NOTE: If some of the Honors Program and Synergy students cannot attend their special session, they can come to any of the other Freshman sessions.
3. The Summer Orientation session for Transfer students on May 30 or May 27 with advising in departments. Because of the large numbers of students coming to the summer orientation sessions as described in the background document from Admissions, extra advising sessions are needed –hence the end of May and June 30-July 1 sessions as listed below.
4. Freshman Orientation sessions (Advising takes place the first day of each session)
May 28-29 (or May 29-30)
June 5-6
June 9-10
June 12-13
June 16-17
June 19-20
June 26-27
June 30-July 1
and
August 22
To give advisors more time for Advising the students, as indicated on the attached summer Orientation 2008 schedule would take place in your department/program around 1:30 after a brief College session until 4:30 to avoid advising beyond the summer work day.
The additions of the May sessions and the April 18 in Casper, among others, will require all of us to work together to help this process run as smoothly and successfully as possible. This will take some planning and preparation and identifying and organizing your advisors---Orientation advising is one of the most important times for the well-being of both the new students and your department/program.
Ilona J. Reif ireif@uwyo.edu
Coordinator, College of A&S Student Affairs,
A&S Dean's Office, A&S Building 114
University of Wyoming
Dept. 3254 1000 East University Ave.
Laramie, WY 82071
Phone (307)766-4106 FAX 307.766.2697