[468] CUSTOMS Helps New Students Get Familiar With MTSU

Release date: May 13, 2010


News & Public Affairs contact: Randy Weiler, 615-898-5616 or jweiler@mtsu.edu
CUSTOMS: Gina Poff, 615-898-2454 or ghpoff@mtsu.edu

CUSTOMS Helps New Students Get Familiar with MTSU
10 Orientation Sessions Will Go from May 26 Through July 29

(MURFREESBORO, TN) –CUSTOMS orientation will get under way soon with the first of 10 sessions spread across May, June and July for new MTSU students and their families.
Starting Wednesday, May 26, and running through late July, CUSTOMS’ two-day sessions will acquaint students to what will be their academic and social home for the next four years.
Admissions, Financial Aid, Housing and Residential Life, advising and other departments will be involved with the orientation process that will integrate new students into the intellectual, cultural and social climate of the university.
Gina Poff, director of New Student and Family Programs, which oversees the running of CUSTOMS, said organizers “are adding orientation leaders to work specifically with parents” this year.
The general assembly portion of CUSTOMS will move to Murphy Center since Tucker Theatre is under renovation, she said.
Poff added that they would take CUSTOMS’ participants onto the field at Floyd Stadium at the beginning of the morning for a video message from football Coach Rick Stockstill.
Session 1, May 26-27, will include scholarship and other students from all colleges within the university. Subsequent sessions will be a combination of majors from the various colleges and undeclared majors.
Registration is required and fees apply. Reservations will be assigned a first-come, first-serve basis, so students should register as early as possible.
For more information, visit www.mtsu.edu/customs or call 615-898-2454.

CUSTOMS Summer ’10 dates

• May 26-27: Scholarship recipients’ session/students from all colleges;
• June 3-4: Majors from Colleges of Business, Liberal Arts, Mass Communication and undeclared;
• June 9-10: Majors from Colleges of Basic and Applied Sciences, Education and undeclared;
• June 15-16: Business, liberal arts, mass comm and undeclared majors;
• June 18-19: CBAS, education and undeclared majors;
• June 23-24: Business, liberal arts, mass comm and undeclared;
• July 7-8: CBAS, education and undeclared majors;
• July 13-14: CBAS and undeclared majors;
• July 16-17: Business, liberal arts, mass comm. and undeclared majors;
• July 22-23: CBAS, education and undeclared; and
• July 28-29: Majors from all colleges.

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