Friday, May 31, 2024

What are First-Year Academic Planning & Registration sessions?

 Hey First-Years,

We hope you all are having an awesome start to your summer, and congratulations on graduating/wrapping up gap years! We are reaching out to introduce a very important program during the summer: First-Year Academic Planning and Registration sessions!


First-Year Academic Planning and Registration sessions are Zooms hosted by First-Year Class Dean Wendy Garay, in which you will discuss academic planning and your first round of course registration in July. You will learn about Student Planning, the online course-planning and registration tool, First-Year Experience courses such as First-Year Seminar and First-Year Writing, other 1000-level or intro courses that are open to first-years during July registration, and will be able to ask any and all questions in small breakout rooms during the Q&A after the information presentation. 

There are 8 total planning sessions in the summer session; you are required to sign up for only one. Please make sure you do not sign up for more than one to allow room for others to participate in sessions! You will be able to sign up for Academic Planning and Registration sessions on the Doodle platform. The link to sign up will be in Volume 1 of The First-Year Guide, which will be released June 3rd!

We hope this information is helpful to you. With any questions, please make sure to reach out via email to our team at first-year@barnard.edu. We can't wait to start working with all of you!

Best,

The First-Year Team



Thursday, May 23, 2024

Class of 2028 Posts Begin June 3rd!


Dear Class of 2028,

You are about to wrap up your senior/gap year and begin your college journey. Congratulations!

The first-year team at Barnard is especially eager to welcome you virtually (and in person come August)! Please expect the first wave of helpful academic planning information to arrive by email on June 3. This blog will also go live on the same date.

We know you all have really great questions and we look forward to providing answers! Please hold on to your questions a bit longer though as the information heading your way is likely to answer most if not all of your queries. 

Stay tuned, and we'll see you soon!

With best wishes,

The First-Year Team