Departmental and University Orientation

• Main Authors: Robin Love, Michael Miller
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: University of Minnesota Libraries Publishing 2002-06-01
• Series: Journal of College Orientation, Transition, and Retention
• Subjects: strategic development; student affairs; academic affairs; transition; retention; mission; programming; integration; council for the advancement of standards (cas); cooperation
• Online Access: https://pubs.lib.umn.edu/index.php/jcotr/article/view/2544

University orientation programs typically rely on divisions of student affairs to build a system of student transition. With some help from academic departments, university wide orientations are loaded with the burdens of meeting a wide variety of institutional expectations while simultaneously responding to the personal needs of new students. Departmental orientation programs have evolved out of a combination of a need to transfer specific information about a major and to convey a sense of departmental expectation for student work and performance. The current study made use of a case study to identify the perceptions of current students about how university and departmental orientation programs do and should work together.