Saturday, August 20
(The Bookstore will be open from 10:00 am until 5:00 pm. The Business Office and Financial Assistance Office will be open from 10:00 am until 4:00 pm.)

10:00am-2:00pm *
Check-in for all NEW STUDENTS Robertson College Community Center. 

11:00am-2:00pm
+Orientation Luncheon for new students and their families. Peeler Crystal Lounge 

2:00 pm    
*Welcoming Assembly - for New Students and their families. Keppel Auditorium 

Immediately following Welcoming Assembly: "Get Acquainted" Meetings – First Year Seminar New Students and families meet with faculty advisors in designated campus locations.

4:00 pm  
FYI Catawba for Parents - Keppel Auditorium - Parents meet with Student Affairs staff to  go over helpful details for parents. 

5:00 pm
Wave I   Dinner in the Cannon Student Center Dining Hall with students, Alphas and advisors.

5:45 pm
Wave II 

5:30 pm
Picnic Dinner for Parent Orientation participants – Peeler Crystal Lounge  

6:30-7:00 pm
“Time to let go” - Families and students bid farewell. 

7:00-8:00 pm
College 101 for Parents - Keppel Auditorium 

7:00-7:45 pm
Advising Groups meet in designated locations. 

8:00-9:20 pm
The Games of the Orientation Olympiad - Cannon Student Center 

9:30 pm
Resident New Student meeting: Hedrick Little Theatre Auditorium
 

Sunday, August 21
8:00-9:30 am
Breakfast in Cannon Student Center Dining Hall.

11:00 am                
Chapel 

11:45 am
Wave I Lunch

12:15 pm
Wave II 

1:00 pm
*Placement test: Math: Only for Teacher Education majors and minors who will be unable to attend the 4:00 pm session and who are not required to attend composition placement. Tom Smith Auditorium. 

1:00 pm
Placement test: Composition Writing Sample for selected students. 204, Hedrick Hall 

1:15 pm
Placement interview: Students with AP credit in English report to 218, Hedrick Hall. 

2:00 pm
Advising Groups meet in designated locations. 

3:00 pm
+Information Meetings for Prospective Majors 

Business Administration, Accounting, Marketing, and Computer Information Systems: Tom Smith Auditorium.

Elementary Education: Room 108, Ketner Hall 

Humanities (English, History, Religion, Philosophy, Foreign Language): 204, Admin.

Math: Room 213, Ketner Hall.

Communication Arts: Crystal Lounge, Robertson College-Community Center

Science (Biology, Chemistry, Environmental Science and Studies, and all allied health professions including pre-med.): Room 205, Shuford Science Building.

Theatre Arts (Theatre Arts, Musical Theatre, and Theatre Arts Admin.): Hedrick Little Theatre, Robertson College-Community Center.

Musical Theatre students must come to this meeting first and then take the music theory placement test following (around 4pm). Your math placement test will be taken on Monday at 8:15am. 

Music (including Music Performance, Music Education, Music Business, Sacred Music, Music Minors and Choral and Instrumental Music Groups): Williams Music Building, Room 103. Individual auditions for all ensembles will begin and then continue at 7:00 pm. The music theory placement test will be administered at 3:30 in Williams Music Building Room 016 for all prospective majors and minors who have not yet taken it. Those students may take the math placement test on Monday at 8:15 am. 

Physical Education, Recreation, Therapeutic Recreation, Sports Management and Athletic Training: Room 109, Abernathy Physical Education Center. 

Political Science: Room 218, Hedrick Hall Administration Building. 

Psychology: Room 233, Hedrick Hall Administration Building. 

Sociology: Room 303, Hedrick Hall Administration Building. 

4:00 pm
+Middle School and Secondary Education prospective majors and minors. Ketner 108.  

4:00 pm
*MATH Placement test: Wave I advising groups-Tom Smith Auditorium

4:30 pm
*MATH Placement test: Wave II advising groups-Tom Smith Auditorium 

4:30 pm
+Dinner for TRANSFER students. Meet in Adams Loft, Cannon Student Center. 

5:00 pm
Wave I Dinner for FIRST YEAR students in Cannon Student Center Dining Hall.

5:30 pm
Wave II

6:00 pm
*Meeting for all TRANSFER students not in First Year Seminar in Tom Smith Aud.  

7:00 pm
Auditions for all Musical Ensembles (Choral, Instrumental) Rehearsal Hall, Room 103, Williams Music   Building. 

5:00-9:00 pm
+Picnic Fun Fest Stanback Plaza
 

8:15 am
*Math Placement Make-up test: Tom Smith Auditorium

9:00 am
*TRANSFER (Non-First Year Seminar), RE-ENTERING, PART TIME, and "SPECIAL" students meet to plan registration, Community Room, Cannon Student Center. 

9:00 am
*Registration for TRANSFERS, PART TIME, and RE-ENTERING Students.

9:30 am
Placement test: Foreign Language exams and interviews for all FIRST YEAR STUDENTS and designated TRANSFERS: 

French: Room 213, Ketner Hall Latin: Room 318, Hedrick Hall

German: Room 303, Hedrick Hall Spanish: Tom Smith Auditorium, Ketner Hall.

12:15-1:30 pm
Lunch in Cannon Student Center Dining Hall. 

12:15-1:15 pm
Lunch Meeting for FIRST YEAR SEMINAR FACULTY: Community Room 

1:30-4:30 pm
Advising Groups meet in designated locations. 

4:00-6:00 pm
Registration for EVENING and POST-BACCALAUREATE students.

4:30-5:30 pm
+Interest meeting for Blue Masque, a club open to all students interested in theatre, in Hedrick Little Theatre, Robertson College-Community Center. 

4:30-6:30 pm
Dinner in Cannon Student Center Dining Hall. 

7:00 pm
+Men’s Soccer Exhibition Game - vs - Queens University, Frock Field.  

9:00-midnight
+Annual Orientation Dance for NEW STUDENTS. Peeler Crystal Lounge. 

8:00 am
Advising Groups meet in designated locations. 

8:30 am
Registration begins for all First Year Seminar students, Hedrick Hall Administration Building. Students register by group number according to schedule. 

11:15-1:15 pm
Lunch in Cannon Student Center Dining Hall. 

1:00 pm
Registration resumes for all First Year Seminar students.

1:00 pm
+Meet the Faculty Reception for all New Students in front of Cannon Student Center. 

2:00-3:15 pm
COMMON READING SESSION-First Year Students meet with their Advising Groups. 

3:30 pm
*Registration for non-First Year Seminar NEW Students who did not complete registration on Monday, August 22. 

3:30 pm
*Mandatory meeting for students with work-study or Campus Employment: Hedrick Little Theatre 

4:00 pm
*Mandatory Loan Counseling for students with Stafford and Perkins Loans. Attendance is required. Bring driver's license and pen - Hedrick Little Theatre. 

5:00-6:30 pm
Dinner in Cannon Student Center Dining Hall. 

7:30-8:30 pm
Round Robin Tours of Student Services – see rotation schedule in Orientation Manual.

Wednesday, August 24
7:00-9:00 am
Breakfast in Cannon Student Center Dining Hall.  

8:30 am-1:00 pm
Registration for UPPERCLASS (returning) students. 

9:00-11:00 am
*LIFESTYLE ORIENTATION – Following Rotation Schedule in Orientation Manual. 

11:15-1:15 pm
Lunch in Cannon Student Center Dining Hall. 

1:00-3:00 pm
Advising groups meet in designated locations.

3:00 pm
International Students Meeting, Ketner Hall, Room 210 

3:00 pm–until
AUDITIONS for fall semester theatre arts department productions, Hedrick Little Theatre.

New Students must complete their Advising Group work before coming to auditions. 

6:00 pm
Wave I *Information and Technology Session in designated locations.

7:00 pm
Wave II

* Required events for all TRANSFER students.
+ Optional events for all TRANSFER students.

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