First experiences are powerful experiences.
In like manner, students' first experiences at the University play powerful roles in their overall success at the University. Academic policies and procedures affect how academic success is defined, maintained, and supported. A thorough examination of same will elucidate those policies that exacerbate, maintain, or improve success of the students during their first year with the University. We seek nothing less than policies and procedures that fully support academic success. Academic policies and procedures are unusually complex and unacceptably recondite.