MURFREESBORO — CUSTOMS,
Middle Tennessee State University’s summer orientation program for new students,
gets underway this week with the first of 11 sessions that will run through
July 31.
Major scholarship recipients will visit campus Wednesday and
Thursday, May 22-23. These include Buchanan Fellows, National
Merit/Achievement/Hispanic, Chancellor and Presidential awardees and others. Other
students who preregister on a first-come, first-served basis will attend
CUSTOMS in the following weeks.
Find full details, including dates for all sessions, online
at http://www.mtsu.edu/customs/. To find parking, attendees should use this
printable link: http://tinyurl.com/MTParkingMap12-13.
CUSTOMS shows freshmen the ropes of being an MTSU student.
It helps new undergraduate students make the transition into the university; it
prepares them for educational opportunities; and it propels them into the
intellectual, cultural and social climate of the university.
Transfer students who have earned 14 or more credit hours do
not have to participate in the traditional CUSTOMS program designed for
freshmen. They must complete an online orientation before registering to meet
with an adviser. Preferred transfer student advising days include three Mondays
— June 21, July 12, Aug. 9 — and Friday, Aug. 19.
Many events will move to the Student Union Building, Gina Poff,
director of New Student and Family Programs, said.
“One of the big changes this year is we are going to be in
the Student Union for most of the events, so we have lots of room this year,”
she said.
Before things shift to the Student Union on Day 1 of the
two-day sessions, attendees will register in the James Union Building, attend
the welcome and general assembly in Murphy Center and view an orientation video
in Learning Resources Center Room 221.
Also, My MT Connection Point is a new CUSTOMS program “to
get freshmen connected by attending events when school begins immediately,”
Poff said.
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