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COR 100
First-Year Advising Program 2009
In a way, first-year students at Lyon enter the College’s Core Curriculum the day they arrive on campus. They meet their faculty/staff and student mentors, who will guide them through Freshman Orientation. Each mentor group of approximately 10 students is led by a faculty/staff mentor and upper-class student mentors chosen through a competitive application process. COR 100 assists first-year students in dealing with the inevitable changes and rapid growth they will experience in their transition to college and helps them develop the personal and academic skills necessary for success in college. In conjunction with programs arranged for first-year students through Spragins House, COR 100 and the entire First-Year Advising Program reflect the College's philosophy of educating the whole person--intellectually, emotionally, socially, physically, and spiritually. These programs and initiatives also acquaint students with academic policies and regulations that will guide their conduct and decision making as students at Lyon.
In the initial new-student orientation period prior to the beginning of classes, frequent meetings and social activities take place. During the first day and a half, they include parents. Mentor groups will meet during the orientation period, in part to help first-year students prepare to register for their fall schedule of classes. As the semester progresses, students will receive instruction in using the College’s instructional resources through library and computing services staff and will have opportunities to work together on projects trying out their new skills as college students. Faculty/staff mentors will maintain close contact with all members of their mentor groups after the fall semester is over and will continue to serve as their academic advisors until they are ready to declare their majors.
COR 100 formal sessions will be supplemented by regular Spragins House programming. Some of this programming will coordinate with COR 100 sessions; some will explore subjects not in the COR 100 program; and some will provide residents with social and recreational opportunities. Spragins House includes the four first-year residence halls, the resident faculty mentor’s home, and the Morrow Building, where much of the House programming occurs. The resident faculty mentor, the senior faculty mentor, the faculty/staff and student mentors, and the student life residential staff who live in the residence halls work collaboratively to help make students’ first-year experience in Spragins House successful and satisfying, both in class and outside of class.
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