The First Year Experience Program engages students during their first year of college in order to increase student success, retention and degree completion.
The program supports a variety of activities such as conducting freshmen surveys to better understand the student and facilitating a First Year Orientation Class (SD-107: New Student Orientation and SD-307: Transfer Student Orientation) that helps students understand themselves, their environment, how to access resources, and how to persist to achieve their goals. The program also provides follow-up calls/correspondence to students who are struggling, assists in academic advising, follows up with students who withdraw from the college, assesses student interests and facilitates the pursuit of those interests.
