My mother is notorious for her constant use of old-fashioned sayings.  Some regular highlights include: “Don’t throw the baby out with the bath water”, “a b[...]

Framingham State University is dedicated to their First-Year students, both freshman and transfer students. We welcome them to FSU with an invitation to attend a one-day, major spe[...]

It is the final day of New Student Orientation. The last student and their family member has driven away from campus, and the next time that we will see these students on campus is[...]

There is some kind of magic that happens on a college campus when orientation or welcome week rolls around. Everything is new to incoming students; the campus, their roommates, the[...]

Each year, every student affairs professional has key events that he or she looks forward to during the year. For many it is graduation, for others it’s various award ceremonies, a[...]

An Open Letter to students in Higher Education Hi Everyone, I’m an academic advisor (duh?!). Yes, many of the advising offices in which I’ve worked and programs I have direct[...]

What are the needs of a first year student? At the moment, I am working with a grant funded program at Austin Community College (ACC). We focus heavily on the needs of first year s[...]

700 first year students stood anxiously outside the auditorium doors waiting to start orientation and start their college careers. Inside the auditorium, I stood with a group of 20[...]

Thanks to everyone who participated in our #SAchat focused on Leadership development initiatives for first-year students . In this week’s chat 200 Student affairs professiona[...]

I ran across this amazing article the other day on a website called www.moreloveletters.com (check it out, its super rad!) that was essentially a letter to incoming Freshmen about [...]