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. 19 and Aug. 21 as New Student Move-In begins this week.
New students will move in Aug. 19 through Aug. 21 with the majority of new freshmen moving in on Aug. 21, according to Kambiz Khalili, interim executive 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 wear yellow tie-dye T-shirts with the Residence Life logo. 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. 19, from 7 a.m. to noon and Thursday, Aug. 21, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Other groups sponsoring volunteers to help with Move-In include the women's basketball team, Panhellenic, Canterbury Colorado and others. Throughout the Move-In days, more than 100 volunteers will be on campus to assist.
Students who attended an orientation session in the summer will move in on Thursday, Aug. 21. 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 John Fox, assistant director of Residence Life.
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 Regent Hall adjacent to Farrand Field," Fox said.
Social activities for new residence hall students 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," Fox said. "This is a huge transition for incoming students and their families. We try to make it as much of a personalized and caring experience as possible."
Students will return to a number of improvements in the residence halls, including a major renovation to Sewall Hall's Dining Center and interior. As part of the plan to renovate all halls in the Kittredge Complex over the next six years, Arnett Hall received a $13 million renovation last year and Andrews Hall will be closed for renovation over the coming year.
The precise number of students moving in will not be known until after the campus census is completed the second week of September. Estimates are from 5,750 to 5,850 new freshmen will arrive on campus this fall - the largest freshman class in CU-麻豆影院 history.