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The Freshman Year Program is a University initiative designed to serve incoming freshmen at all levels of ability. The primary goal of the program is to enhance the academic performance of new students and facilitate their integration into the College. The program has established a broad base of planning by forming a committee that includes teaching faculty, student services staff, college administrators and, where appropriate, students. The components of the Freshman Year Program are:
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The Freshman Academy is a comprehensive set of integrated courses and experiences designed to ease your transition into college and to increase the likelihood of your success. In addition to being enrolled in a year-long Academy 101 course, you will take a series of connected classes with your fellow students (cohorts), forming exciting and supportive learning communities. Taken together, the interdisciplinary learning communities and the extended first-year experience course are intended to help you develop the essential habits and skills of successful scholars, to strengthen your connection to the WOU community, and contribute to your overall sense of well-being … all leading in the direction of greater success.
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The primary goal of the Freshman Year Program is to assist freshman with many of the transitional issues facing students during their first academic year in college. This goal encompasses providing students with academic advisement, personal and career counseling. In addition to instructional activities within their freshman seminar courses, counselors provide crisis intervention, referrals and follow-up. Freshman Seminar I focuses on study/library research skills, college survival skills, an extensive orientation to Medgar Evers College, enhancing students' interpersonal skills for collaborative/cooperative learning activities, critical thinking, academic/career planning, and how to successfully meet the many demands of college and outside responsibilities while maintaining one's health: physical, emotional and social. Freshman Seminar II primarily focuses on enhancing students' critical thinking and problem solving skills in written and oral expression. The overall intent of the Freshman Year Program is to assist Medgar Evers College in it's effort to retain students and to help ensure that their academic experience at the College is a positive one.
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The Record had a story about "tips to fighting the freshman 15," the 15 pounds freshman traditionally gain during their first year away from home. The story quoted Kathy Hunter, director of Health Services in the Cowell Wellness Center, saying that the number one contributor to weight gain for college students is the introduction of alcohol to many student diets. She recommended eating healthy and regular exercise.
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Learning Assistance & Supplemental Instruction - Every student who elects to participate in the Freshman Year Experience is assigned a faculty advisor. In addition, all students receive supplementary help from their Freshman Seminar instructor. Every Freshman Seminar instructor is a full-time VSU faculty member. This additional support and assistance ensures that each student receives personalized contact with VSU faculty. Seminar faculty members serve as out-of-the-classroom resource persons. They work with students one-on-one to help develop study and test-taking skills, and they educate students on the course advisement process and procedures.
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...MILWAUKEE, WI - Freshman Kalyn Selissen, 18, and her mother’s fiancé, Scott Perkl, both of Green Bay, struggle to fit furniture into Sandburg Hall at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. The school needs to accommodate more students in the dorm than planned. Selissen, for example, will have three roommates.
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