Online graduate degree program offerings are increasing in popularity, and online graduate students need support to acclimate to their degree programs. Online orientations have been effective in undergraduate programs; however, there is limited research on the effectiveness of online orientations in online graduate degree programs. The problem…

Orientation programs on college campuses across the United States exist to serve the needs of new students to transition and thrive in their new setting. Some students may arrive on campus for even more specialized programs beyond traditional orientation programs, such as athletic practice, that focus on academic courses or involve a wilderness…

This study explored qualitative variation in first year undergraduates' induction into the discipline in four dimensions: (1) induction into disciplinary knowledge; (2) induction into disciplinary research; (3) integration of learning from different courses; and (4) induction into disciplinary skills. Data were drawn from focus groups with…

This publication discusses the value of orientation programs for new school board members and examines various possibilities for the structuring and presentation of such orientation programs. Approximately half of the publication is devoted to presenting examples of orientation programs and materials used by five state and local agencies that…

This article presents a student orientation program that consists of a series of wilderness outings. (HS)

A slide tape presentation was devised for use in an orientation program to the State University of New York at Buffalo library for incoming freshmen students. The goals of the audiovisual orientation program are to: (1) indicate the complexity of the university libraries--to show that there are many libraries and that their resources are varied,…

This paper is the newest Personnel Services Review, an ongoing publication series developed by ERIC/CAPS to inform personnel workers about new developments in a number of personnel services areas. Each section in this document focuses on orientation services for a specific population attending college. Goals and practices of various new programs…

An adjunct facility of Texas A&M University is described which enables students to make a smooth transition from high school to college and persist there. Faculty live close by and are available in class as well as out, giving students feeling of personal relationship. (CT)

The first paper presents the results of an Orientation Evaluation Questionnaire returned by 386 students who participated in Western Michigan University's (WMU) 1967 orientation program. Each of the 20 questions covered various aspects of the program. Student replies were analyzed and provide the basis for recommendations for subsequent programs.…

Prior to their attendance at a summer orientation program, 339 students were mailed their own student profile, materials for its interpretation, and information on factors important in academic choices. A control group of 321 students received no mailed materials. Both groups subsequently participated in a standard orientation program, in which…

A compulsory freshman orientation program at Tarrant County Junior College (Texas) required 18 hours of class contact. During the first two weeks of the program, freshmen were presented with general information about the college and introduced to college administrators. During the last six weeks, the students scheduled 10 hours (in any…

The basic purpose of the present study was to study the effectiveness of using trained peers to lead small process groups in freshman orientation. A sample of 253 freshman students from East Central State College in Ada, Oklahoma, were used for the experiment. The instrument used to determine whether perceptions of the college campus climate…

After arriving at college with anticipations of the kinds of attitudes and behaviors they will favor as students, students sometimes transform their initial orientation into an actual student role and sometimes undergo a change and adopt a new set of orientations toward the student role. This study was directed toward determining the ways in which…

This article discusses a familiarization program for children and their parents, which involved a parent coffee hour, individual parent counselor meetings, home visitations, group counseling meetings with the children, and housing project meetings, all part of an effort to make children and parents feel that the school was interested in the…