FYE at CCSU

CCSU's First-year Experience Program Integrates an extended Freshman orientation program Into regular academic courses that fulfill general education requirements. Both personal growth and academic adjustment issues are discussed in these special courses, taught by specifically trained faculty who find ways to make the course material more immediate and personal to student lives.

The First-Year Experience Program helps first-year students cope with the university experience in all its forms: academic, social, personal. From smaller classes to curricula that focus, within the contexts of a variety of disciplines, on the issues directly affecting new college students, the program encourages students to confront the challenges of scholarship, extracurricular activities, and independence. Faculty who teach in this program structure their courses to meet the demands of transition while teaching traditional introductory courses.

How FYE Helps Students

FYE students get help with

developing study and test taking skills

leaming to use library and computer resources

solving both personal and academic problems.

FYE students say repeatedly that they

developed a close relationship with a faculty member

understood how courses are interrelated

thought professors wanted them to succeed

believed that a small, freshman-only class helped

with transition to college life

were eager to complete their education at CCSU.

Student Evaluation of the FYE Program

In open ended comments, FYE students report that the program helped them

feel more comfortable at CCSU

become more familiar with people and processes

develop better study, writing, and time management skills

realize that professors were very concerned with the welfare of their students.

In the words of one FYE student,

"Taking the FYE course was probably the best thing I did this semester because it was a smaller class, which made it easier to have one-on-one conversations with the professor. My FYE course taught me how to have better study habits and how to take notes. I learned more because I wasn't afraid to speak in class and voice my opinion. FYE actually made me enjoy a course I thought would hate."

For more information, please contact:

C.C.S.U.

Dr. Richard Roth
School of Arts and Sciences
1615 Stanley Street
New Britain, CT 06050

Telephone: (860) 832-2600

Arts and Science