First-Year Experience

First- Year F.A.C.T.S.

• Faculty Office Hours
  • Check your syllabus for office hours or schedule a time to meet with your professor that works with your schedule.
  • Make a personal connection in case you ever need a letter of recommendation.
  • Clarify and ask questions about course content.
  • Get study ideas.
  • Prepare for an upcoming assignment.
  • Review an exam or a paper you wrote.
  • Talk about grades.
  • Work through practice problems.
• Academic Advising
  • Schedule an appointment to speak to an academic advisor.
  • Check the academic calendar for precepting days and schedule to meet with your preceptor.
  • Discuss and create your long-term educational, personal, and career goals.
  • Develop an academic success plan. 
  • Evaluate your educational goals, and progress in your major and degree requirements.
• Career, Education & Development
  • Make an appointment to speak to a career advisor.
  • Join a career community designed to help you explore, make connections and launch a career in a specific field of interest. 
  • Attend upcoming events.
• Tutoring 
  
  • Take advantage of working with a tutor at the Tutoring Center, and/or the
• Seminar and Student Transition Programs
  • Complete a first-year seminar.
  • Engage with the TALONS mentor assigned to your first-year seminar.
  • Attend study sessions, and academic programs endorsed by your assigned TALONS mentor.

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