Students should contact the Health Center for complete details. Each semester Student Affairs sponsors an orientation for new lower-division students. Parents of new students are also encouraged to attend an orientation session. Orientation lasts two days and is designed to acquaint students with the University and to facilitate students' choices of courses, registration, and completion of other necessary procedures. During orientation, student mentors meet as peer advisors with incoming freshmen.
New students receive information about orientation by mail after they have been admitted.
The University Advising Center provides advising for General Studies requirements for freshman and sophomore students. The Center also provides a system which alerts new freshmen and sophomores to potential academic problems. Students are notified by letter of unacceptable progress and urged to meet with their advisors to discuss possible remedies. All degree-seeking junior and senior students are assigned faculty advisors by the department housing the program in which the student is majoring. Junior and senior students should contact the chairperson of their major department to obtain the name of their academic advisor.