Bearcats Bound Orientation Begins on June 3

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The summer crowds of new students are about to converge on UC’s campus and they’re expected in record numbers. UC’s Bearcats Bound Orientation for first-year students gets underway on June 3 and runs through July 18. Organizers are anticipating that as many as 4,500 students and their families will attend Orientation on UC’s Uptown Campus.

Caroline Miller, senior associate vice president of Enrollment Management, says UC is expecting the 2013 class of freshmen to surpass the university’s 2011 record of 4,268 freshmen on the Uptown campus, as well as the 2011 total of 6,237 overall freshmen, which includes the branch campuses of UC Blue Ash and UC Clermont. The university is also expecting increasing numbers of transfer and international students in line with the 2019 Academic Master Plan.

Check-in begins at 7:30 a.m., Monday, June 3, outside the Great Hall of Tangeman University Center (TUC). As students enter the Great Hall, they’ll walk through the “Tunnel of Awesomeness” created by 31 Student Orientation Leaders (SOLs) and six Student Orientation Coordinators (SOCs) – UC upperclassmen who underwent intensive spring training to guide the new students and their parents through summer Orientation. The official welcome in the Great Hall begins at 9 a.m.

UC’s College of Engineering and Applied Science reports that it is exceeding new goals for recruiting additional freshmen into computer engineering and computer science – two fields that employers around the nation hold in high demand. Freshman confirmations in both of those areas have nearly doubled since 2012, in part with the support of new dean’s scholarships this fall to support student interests in those fields. The college is expecting to welcome around 950 freshmen this fall, compared with 776 in 2012.

At Bearcats Bound Orientation, new students will receive academic advising, register for classes, meet fellow Bearcats and learn more about their university. Also, parents will learn about UC’s academic and social programs as well as the university’s numerous services to support students on their pathway to a college degree.

The comprehensive, two-day orientation for new students and their families helps both students and parents become familiar with the student transformation — from a high school student to a college student.

Bearcats Bound Orientation will also be an opportunity for incoming students to contribute to the community, with the UC Bearcats School Supplies Drive. New students are invited to bring new school supplies to check-in. The drive will benefit local elementary and middle school children.

Students and parents are advised to attend Orientation in comfortable clothing as well as comfortable shoes for walking around UC’s world-renowned campus.

UC’s fall semester begins on Aug. 26. UC’s formal freshman Convocation welcoming ceremony will take place at 10 a.m., Friday, Aug. 23, in Fifth Third Arena at Shoemaker Center.

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