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Monday, September 1, 2008
Events in red are required
Open Hours
Auxiliary Services (Cable, Card, Mail & Telephone)
Central Services Complex
9:00am - 5:00pm
Bank Account SignUp
Skinner Green
Rain Location:Blanchard Campus Center
9:00am - 5:00pm
Campus Store
Blanchard Campus Center
9:00am - 5:00pm
Health Services
Pattie Groves Health Center
Call x2242 to make an appointment for medical clearance or urgent care.
9:00am - 4:00pm
HELPLine (x4357, H-E-L-P)
InfoDesk in Blanchard
9:00am - 9:00pm
Library, Information, and Technology Services (LITS)
Open House and Computer Troubleshooting
Information Commons, Williston Memorial Library
10:00am – 5:00pm
Parking Office
Central Services Complex
10:00am - 5:00pm
Residence Hall Key Distribution
226 Blanchard Campus Center
8:00am - 10:00pm
Residential Life Office Open Hours
Wilder Basement
9:00am-1:00pm
Vendors On the Green
Skinner Green
Rain Location:Blanchard Campus Center
9:00am - 7:00pm Schedule
Key to Events for incoming Students:
(A): Events for ALL new students to attend
(FF)(IG) IE): Events for Foreign Fellows, International Guest Students and International Exchange Students
(FP): Events for Frances Perkins Program students
(I): Events for International (ISOC) students
(P): Events for Passages students: ALANA (African American, Latina, Asian American, Native American and multiracial students)
(T): Events for Tranfer students
Returning Students Arrive
If you haven't taken your examinations for exemption and placement, please refer to Academic Advising Handbook.
7:15–10:00 am Breakfast (Hot breakfast until 9:00 am)
Abbey-Buckland, Ham-MacGregor, North Rockefeller, South Rockefeller (not accessible), Prospect, and Wilder Dining Halls
9:30 am–12:00 noon Small Group Event: Welcome to Our Community! (A)
Make connections with other new students, learn about the Mount Holyoke community and get your questions answered with the help of your upperclass small group leaders.
Chapin Auditorium, Mary Woolley Hall
10:00am-11:30am Foreign Fellow Teaching workshop (FF and French Teaching Associate)
Donna Van Handle, Dean of International Students & Senior Lecturer in German Studies, will offer a general introduction to your teaching duties and other responsibilities in the language departments with which you are affiliated. Practical tips and a web site featuring teaching resources will also be featured.
9 Ciruti Center
12:00 noon–1:15 pm Lunch with Small Group Leader
Ham-MacGregor, North Rockefeller, South Rockefeller (not accessible), Prospect, and
Wilder Dining Halls and Blanchard Café. (Blanchard Café is available as part of the meal plan 11:00 am-4:00 pm)
1:30pm-2:30 pm Making Connections: Navigating Your Academic Experience at Mount Holyoke (A)
Moderated by Leah B. Glasser, Dean of First-Year Studies, this session focuses on building connections with your adviser, your professors, and academic resources as you explore the curriculum in your first year. Learn about the web of advising connections and how best to make use of them. .
Chapin Auditorium, Mary Woolley Hall
3:00–4:00 pm Dining Services Student Worker Meeting Part I
A mandatory meeting required of all first-year student workers. Student workers will be given a general introduction to Dining Services and information regarding the kinds of work that they can expect to do for Dining Services.
Hooker Auditorium, Clapp Hall
4:15pm - 4:45 pm Leadership in Action: The Weissman Center and Your Success
This session focuses on the resources and leadership opportunities available through the Weissman Center for Leadership and the Liberal Arts. Learn how the Weissman Center, and its Speaking, Arguing, and Writing Program and Community-Based Learning Program, can help you launch your leadership potential at MHC
Hooker Auditorium
4:15 - 5:15 pm Settling Your Academic Schedule: ISIS Navigation and Registration
Having problems using ISIS? Confused about what credits have transferred and what distribution requirements you may have satisfied? Concerned about adding and dropping courses or waitlisting? This session will include a demonstration of how to make good use of the Internet Student Information System (ISIS) to add or drop courses, explore course offerings, confirm credit transfer, respond to waitlisting, or review your progress in meeting college requirements.
Gamble Auditorium, Art Museum
5:00–6:30 pm Dinner
Abbey-Buckland, Ham-MacGregor, North Rockefeller, South Rockefeller (not accessible), Prospect, and Wilder Dining Halls and Blanchard Café. (Blanchard Café is available as part of the meal plan after 4:00 pm until midnight.) 7:00pm–10:00pm Small Group Event: Intersections: Identity and Community (A)
A program of music, theatre, and film designed to inspire insights and questions about identity and multiculturalism. Following the performance, small groups will explore candidly the rewards and challenges of membership in Mount Holyoke’s multicultural community.
Chapin Auditorium, Mary Woolley Hall
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