Students who are new to campus need make-up in-person Orientation Adventures, writes Ryan Lillestrand PZ ’23.
Tag: Orientation
New 5C students react to an all-online orientation season
For incoming first years at the 5Cs, orientation typically marks a grueling week of trips, packed auditoriums and long days of making new friends. But this year, the class of 2024’s orientations were replaced by live Zoom webinars, pre-recorded presentations and virtual social events.
OPINION: There’s value in outdoor orientation trips that cannot be found elsewhere
Harvey Mudd recently ended their outdoor orientation trips, and in doing so, have eliminated valuable opportunities to bond.
Pomona shortens OA, overhauls orientation programming
Pomona College is planning a slew of changes to its first-year orientation programming, designed to increase awareness of campus resources.
Pomona shortens OA by a day and a half, will house three trips on campus
Pomona College is shortening its Orientation Adventure by a day and a half, and adding LA-based options which won’t require wilderness travel.
Pomona to limit OA destinations further than four hours
Pomona will keep next fall’s Orientation Adventure destinations within four hours’ driving distance from campus.
Pomona shortens orientation, but not Orientation Adventure
Pomona College shortened its orientation by one day — but kept Orientation Adventure the same length.
OPINION: Pomona College’s orientation has so much potential
Through basic restructuring and more student input in the planning process, Pomona’s Orientation Adventure could be significantly more welcoming and helpful to new students.
Pomona’s Orientation Adventure revision process continues with open forums
After reversing her controversial decision last fall to move Pomona College’s Orientation Adventure to students’ sophomore years, Dean of Students Avis Hinkson has held three open forums this semester to collect feedback for the new temporary Orientation Committee. Hinkson, who arrived at Pomona in August, announced in December the school
OPINION: Don’t take Orientation Adventure out for first-years
I arrived at Pomona College on a Saturday last August having traveled 2,000 miles from home, familiar with practically no one on campus and terrified of the journey I was about to start. Two days later, I hopped on a bus and spent four days backpacking in Sequoia National Park.