Volunteers from a variety of campus groups will be available to help new students move their belongings into residence halls at the University of Colorado at 麻豆影院 Aug. 21 though Aug. 23 as New Student Move In begins next week.
New students will be moving in Aug. 21 through Aug. 23 in categories corresponding to their school and college enrollment, according to Paula Bland, residence life assistant director for Housing and Dining Services.
Volunteers from the Residence Hall Association, returning residence hall students and students from several student groups will wear bright gold T-shirts identifying them as Move In helpers. Residence Life staff members will sport T-shirts with the green Colorado license tag design. The volunteer movers will be stationed near all campus residence halls to help students and their parents move belongings into the halls as quickly as possible.
The volunteers will be available to assist new students primarily on specified New Student Move In dates including Tuesday, Aug. 21, from 8 a.m. to noon and Thursday, Aug. 23, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Other groups sponsoring volunteers to help with Move In include the women's basketball team, Black Student Alliance, Panhellenic, Focus Missionary, Canterbury Colorado and others. Throughout the three main Move In days, more than 100 volunteers will be on campus to assist.
"Since engineering students do not come to campus during the summer, they all are required to attend engineering orientation starting on Wednesday, Aug. 22," said Bland. "Engineering students will move in on Tuesday. Also, some of the arts and sciences, business, pre-journalism, music and architecture and planning students move in on Tuesday."
Students who attended an orientation session in the summer will move in on Thursday, Aug. 23. All new students are required to move in by 5 p.m. on Thursday, but returning students can move into residence hall rooms anytime from Thursday through the weekend, said Bland.
Information tables with handouts for new students also will be set up in key locations. "On both Tuesday and Thursday, information tents will be set up at Williams Village, the Kittredge complex and in front of Regent Hall next to the road on Regent Lawn," Bland said.
A week of welcome activities for freshmen begins Aug. 21 and will run through Aug. 27, the first day of fall semester classes. For students who have moved into their residence halls, New Student Welcome events will start on Thursday evening with a Casino Night at the student Recreation Center and will continue with the Chancellor's Convocation on Friday, Aug. 24, followed by Global Jam, the UMC Welcome Fest on Friday night and a Welcome Back Concert on Farrand Field Saturday evening.
The chancellor's convocation, required for all freshmen, will be held Aug. 24 at 11:30 a.m. in Folsom Stadium. The Global Jam gourmet food and entertainment event will be on the refurbished Farrand Field at noon following convocation.
Social activities for new residence hall students also will be held the evenings of. Aug. 21 and Aug. 22 and all first-year residence hall students will be required to attend a hall meeting with other students from their floors to get acquainted and to learn about policies, services, the roommate agreement and other activities planned for the week.
"We try to do everything we can to make the adjustment from home to college successful," Bland said. "We find that if we can help make the adjustment to college life easier in the residence halls, we also will help set up our new students for success in the classroom."