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Welcome Days Schedule at a Glance

First-year students are encouraged to attend all programs during Welcome Days, however, activities listed in bold print are required for all first-year students. Please note: This is a draft schedule and is subject to change.

Wednesday, August 20
Time Event Location
9 - 4 p.m. Welcome Days Check-In Fireside Lounge, Wade Commons
12 - 2:30 p.m. International Student Welcome Luncheon and Orientation Spartan Room                 
2 - 3 p.m. Academic Survival - Get a Head Start Dampeer Room, KSL
2 - 4 p.m. Commuter Meeting 1914 Lounge, Thwing Center
2 - 4 p.m. KSL Quicktours         Kelvin Smith Library
4 - 5 p.m. Welcome Days Officially Begins Meet on your residence hall floor, or if you are a commuter, in Thwing Center.
5:15 - 6:30 p.m. Dinner Tent, Freiberger Field
6:45 - 7:45 p.m. Residence Hall Meetings Various Locations
8 - 9 p.m. Welcome Days Tradition Stadium, North Residential Village. (Rain site: Veale Center)
10 p.m. Comedian, Hal Sparks, Sponsored by UPB Tent, Freiberger Field
Thursday, August 21
Time Event Location
8:30 - 10:30 a.m. Breakfast Leutner Commons
9 - 10:30 a.m.           Disability Resources Brunch    Sears 435
9 - 12 p.m. Physics Proficiency Exam Rockefeller 301
9 - 12 p.m. Chemistry Proficiency Examinations Clapp 201
10 - 10:30 a.m. College and Money 101 Nord 400
10 - 10:30 a.m. Study Abroad Opportunities: Spring Break, Semester and Year-Long Nord 410
10 - 11 a.m. Open House: University Health Service Giveaways University Health Service
10 - 11 a.m.     Veale Center - Student Recreation Orientation Veale Center
10 - 11 a.m. Emerging Leaders Program Information Session Ballroom, Thwing Center
10:30 - 11:30 a.m. Success in the Classroom Strosacker Auditorium
11 - 11:30 a.m. "Award Winning" International Travel and Study. 3-credit elective courses for Winter, Spring, and Summer Break. Hosted by Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences (MSASS) Thwing Center Atrium
11 - 11:30 a.m. Becoming a Global Ethical Leader Inamori Center, Crawford Hall
11 - 12 p.m. Academic Survival - Get a Head Start Dampeer Room, KSL
11 - 12 p.m. Greek Life Information Session 1914 Lounge, Thwing Center
11:30 - 1 p.m. Lunch Freibeger Field, Tent
1 - 1:50 p.m. Meet the Faculty Session I Various Locations
2 - 2:50 p.m. Meet the Faculty Session II Various Locations
3 - 4 p.m. PFLAG Reception  Hitchcock Lounge, Thwing Center
3 - 4 p.m. Office of Multicultural Affairs Reception 1914 Lounge, Thwing Center
3 - 4:30 p.m. Student Employment/Student Loans Informational Session Strosacker Auditorium
3:15 - 6:15 p.m.     Mathematics Proficiency Exam     Schmitt Lecture Hall
4 - 5 p.m. Global Nomads: for students who have spent part or most of their lives living outside of their passport culture because of their parents' jobs. Cleveland Room, Thwing Center
4:30 - 5:15 p.m. Hooking up, what's it all about?! Hosted by Flora Stone Mather Center for Women and University Health Service Spartan Room, Thwing Center
6 - 8 p.m. Dinner and Cleveland Vendors
Tent, Freiberger Field
6 - 8 p.m. Greek Carnival, Sponsored by Greek Life Outside Leutner Commons, North Residential Village. (Rainsite: Adelbert Gym)
9 - 12 a.m. Casino Night, Sponsored by RHA Thwing Center
Friday, August 22
Time Event Location
8 - 10 a.m. Breakfast Leutner Commons
10 - 11:30 a.m. Meet Your SAGES Instructor Veale Center
11:30 - 12:30 p.m. Lunch & Taste of Greek Life Tent, Freiberger Field
12:30 - 12:45 p.m. Little Blue Book Pick-Up Severance Hall, 2nd Floor
1 - 2 p.m. Share the Vision Severance Hall
2 - 2:50 p.m. Share the Vision Breakout Sessions Various Locations
3 - 4 p.m. Emerging Leaders Program (ELP) Reception Thwing Center Atrium
3:30 - 4:30 p.m. Engineering Welcome!  Strosacker Auditorium
4:30 - 6:30 p.m. Share the Vision EXPO and Dinner Tent, Freiberger Field
6 - 8 p.m. Shabbat Dinner with Hillel Hillel Courtyard, Interfaith Plaza
7 - 9 p.m. Welcome Back Concert: Augustana, Sponsored by UPB North Residential Village
Rain site: Adelbert Gym
Saturday, August 23
Time Event Location
9 - 12 p.m. First-Year Student Drop/Add Nord Atrium
10 - 10:30 a.m.   Crafts for kids with Project Sunshine Thwing Center Atrium
10 - 11 a.m.   How to Avoid the "Freshmen 15" L3, Basement of Leutner Commons
11:30 - 1 p.m. Student Activities Fair and Lunch Tent, Freiberger Field
12 - 3 p.m. Computer Science Proficiency Exam Olin 313
12:30 - 1:15 p.m. Cleveland Scholarship Program (CSP) Participant - Mandatory Meeting Nord 410
1:30 - 5 p.m. SatCo Events Various Locations
5 p.m. Catholic Mass and Student Reception Holy Rosary Parish, 12021 Mayfield Road, Little Italy
6 - 8 p.m. Residential College Opening Ceremony and Dinner Meet outside of your residence hall.
10 - 1 a.m. Welcome Back Dance, Sponsored by USG Tent, Freiberger Field
Sunday, August 24
Time Event Location
8:30 a.m., 11 a.m., 8 p.m. Catholic Mass and Student Reception Holy Rosary Parish, 12021 Mayfield Road, Little Italy
1 - 4 p.m. Greek Games Meet in the Spot
3 - 5 p.m. Sundaes on Sunday: Interfaith Open House Interfaith Center - Church of the Covenant
5 - 7 p.m. Welcome BBQ with Newman Catholic Campus Ministry Pavillion between Leutner and Taft House
5:30 - 7 p.m. Welcome Back Worship and BBQ with United Protestant Campus Ministries (UPCaM) Interfaith Center, The Church of the Covenant
6 - 7:30 p.m. Welcome Back BBQ with Hillel Hillel Courtyard, Interfaith Plaza
6:30 - 8:15 p.m. Case Film Society: Casablanca Strosacker Auditorium
8:30 p.m. Residential College Meetings See your RA for location and details.
9:30 p.m. Ice Cream Social, Sponsored by RHA Outside Leutner Commons