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Orientation Assessment Guide
The Follow-Up Report: Guides and Handbooks
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The Follow-UpReport
Institutional AssessmentGuidelines:
New StudentOrientation
(A Guides and Handbooks Report)
Todd V. Titterud
Revised 06/27/2007
 
Orientation Assessment Guide
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Institutional Assessment Guidelines:
New Student Orientation
 
(Todd V. Titterud, Revised: 06-27-2007)
The materials in this guideline have been collated to assist your department in theinstitutional assessment process. The examples from similar departments in otherinstitutions are included for comparison purposes to help you develop or revise your owndepartment’s efforts. They are not intended as recommendations but as efforts to bereviewed and critiqued to improve your own learning and understanding. While some may bemodels of best efforts, others may reveal the range of understanding and interpretation whichis still prevalent. Each department and institution is following their own learning curve towardthe common goal of establishing a culture of evidence-based continuous improvementfounded on student and institutional learning.
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Sample Mission Statements
Georgia State University:
The Georgia State University Office of New Student Programs is committed torecruiting, retaining and developing students. We will do so by introducing newstudents to Georgia State University, offering orientation programs that facilitate theirintegration and providing programs that enhance student development throughleadership opportunities.
Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI):
Vision:
Welcoming, introducing, and supporting students and families, one Jaguar at a time.
 
Mission:
The New Student Orientation Program has been specifically designed and developedto assist and support entering students during their transition to IUPUI. The Council forthe Advancement of Standards (2001) as printed in the Designing SuccessfulTransitions: A Guide for Orientating Students to College Monograph 13, recommendsthat the orientation program should “facilitate the transition of new students into theinstitution; prepare new students for the institution’s educational opportunities; andinitiate the integration of new students into the intellectual, cultural, and social climateof the institution” (p. 198). These guidelines parallel IUPUI’s mission to offer studentprograms and services through the leadership of current students, staff, and faculty to
 
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ensure student persistence and success in reaching their education goals. TheOrientation Program also strives to follow the Principles of Undergraduate Learning,which represent the conceptual framework for undergraduate education at IUPUI.
The mission of the New Student Orientation Program is as follows:
Expose students to the broad educational opportunities available at IUPUI.
Explicitly describe the services, opportunities, and expectations IUPUI has forassisting students in meeting their education goals.
Assist students in making the transition form their previous environments to thediverse academic, intellectual, and social culture of the university.
 
Serve as a dynamic first step in moving a newly admitted student to enrolledstudent status with the service and support of faculty, academic advising, peerstudents, technology, and registration.
 
Loyola University New Orleans:
The mission of the Office of New Student Orientation is to facilitate the transition offreshmen and transfer students into Loyola University New Orleans by preparing themfor Loyola’s educational opportunities and by incorporating new students into theintellectual, cultural and social climate of the Loyola community.
Metropolitan State College of Denver:
Department Mission Statement:
 The mission of the New Student Orientation Office is to facilitate the successfultransition to Metro State for first-time and transfer students by educating them aboutthe College and connecting them with the Metro State community and resources.
Purpose:
 
Provide an outlet for incoming students to get their questions answered.
Aid in the retention and graduation of students by getting them started off on the rightfoot.
Begin building a connection between in-coming students and the College
Deliver orientation services in a variety of methods and formats to meet the needs ofall incoming students (i.e. on-campus, online, new sessions, transfer sessions, etc.).
North Carolina State University:
Program Mission and Philosophy
New Student Orientation (NSO) coordinates NC State University’s collective efforts toprovide programs and services to newly admitted first year and transfer undergraduatestudents that will facilitate their transition into NC State, prepare them for theinstitution’s educational opportunities, and initiate their integration into the institution’sintellectual, cultural, and social climate.
 
SUNY Cortland:
Mission
New Student Orientation is designed to introduce new SUNY Cortland students to theacademic and co-curricular services and programs vital to their successful transition to
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