Changes are afoot as the First-Year Experience & Transition Programs office looks forward to the 2017-18 academic year!
The third year of the First Husker program (focusing on the successful transition of 200 first-generation, first-year students) will launch August 13th -16th. For the first time, First Husker will include requirements and opportunities for engagement throughout the fall 2017 semester. Student participants will enroll in a 10-week First Husker Seminar course which all FYE&TP staff will lead. The course will focus on traditional transition-to-college and academic success topics for the first-generation student. In addition, First Husker students will meet monthly with their assigned FYE&TP staff member.
Our workshop series is evolving! The six academic success topics currently covered will grow into a workshop series that will focus on a different weekly topic, geared toward what is happening in the semester for students. Not to worry for those who commonly referred students to our current workshop subjects…all are featured within the new series! Look to the FYE&TP website in the coming month for the fall 2017 workshop schedule and descriptions.
Fall 2017 will also feature a new addition to the tutoring services offered on campus. Our office will be hosting a location in the Adele Coryell Hall Learning Commons pop-up space (across from the AskUs and HuskerTech desks). Drop-in tutoring will occur Monday-Thursday evenings. Additionally, a peer mentor will be available to assist students with basic academic success concerns and support topics, such as helping a student design a weekly study schedule.
Finally, when the 2017-18 New Student Enrollment academic planners arrive, take a look at the pages in the back. You will find 16 pages of helpful resources and information for students accompanied by a series of illustrations created by current first-year student and Art major, Bailey Paul. Topics include learning style, budgeting, time management and common “how-to” topics for students.
More details at: http://success.unl.edu/