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Graduate Students' Opening Week Schedule

Sunday, August 31st

3–7 p.m.
Lawn behind Slonim House

Hospitality at Slonim
Welcome Picnic

Monday, September 1st

8:45–9:30 a.m.

Heimbold Auditorium

Orientation for Beginning Graduate Students
Begins promptly at 9 a.m.

  • Coffee
  • Distribution of Registration material
  • Orientation
  • Introduction of Graduate Program Directors
  • Introduction of Graduate Student Senate

9:30 a.m.–12 p.m.

  • Boulder Classroom
  • Boulder Lounge
  • Performing Arts Center
  • Wrexham
  • Wrexham
  • Performing Arts Center
  • Pillow Room
  • Slonim House – Living Room
  • Heimbold Auditorium
  • Classroom North Building

Individual Program Orientation

  • Art of Teaching – Sara Wilford
  • Child Development – Barbara Schecter
  • Dance – Sara Rudner
  • Health Advocacy – Laura Weil
  • Human Genetics – Caroline Lieber
  • Theatre – John Dillon
  • Writing/Fiction – Brian Morton
  • Writing/Poetry – Kate Johnson
  • Writing/Nonfiction – Vijay Seshadri
  • Women’s History – Priscilla Murolo

12–1 p.m.
Slonim House Living Room

 Buffet Lunch

12–3 p.m.
Performing Arts Center

 Photographs taken for Campus ID’s

12–2 p.m.
Bates Meeting Room

Mandatory Information Session for International Students

Lunch will be served

1–5 p.m.
Faculty Offices

Individual Meetings with Program Directors

1–5 p.m.
Slonim Living Room

Hospitality Room—Graduate Student Senate

3:30 p.m.
Leaves from Slonim

Campus Tours

4 p.m.
Esther Raushenbush Library

Library Tour and Open House

5:30 p.m.
Slonim House Living Room

Light Buffet
Prior to Faculty Prose/Poetry Reading

6:30–8 p.m.
Reisinger

Faculty Prose/Poetry Reading
Open to all

Tuesday, September 2nd

9 a.m.–5 p.m.
On Campus

Faculty Interviews**
Individual Program meetings

1–2 p.m.
Heimbold Auditorium

***Returning Students’ Orientation for:
Child Development,
Women’s History and Writing Programs.

5:30 p.m.
Lawn behind Slonim House

All Graduate Student Picnic
Sponsored by the Graduate Studies Program and the Graduate Student Senate

Wednesday, September 3rd

9 a.m.–5 p.m.
On Campus

Faculty Interviews**
Individual Program Meetings

2–4 p.m.
PAC

In-person Course Registration
Child Development, Dance, Women’s History and Writing Students
(See Pat Dunn)

3–4 p.m.
Heimbold

Graduate Career Development 
Please join the Staff of Career Counseling to discuss services of their office, which include internships and other career, related concerns.  They will also discuss the opportunities available to second year students for resume writing and job search.

Whether you are starting your career or planning to change careers, if you are searching for as way to balance your goals as a student with your need to make a living, this is the place for you.

4–5 p.m.
Reisinger

Insurance, Health Services, Employment, Financial Aid Meeting

Mandatory for all beginning graduate students who have applied for or have been granted loans.

Nance Roy, Director of Health Services, will discuss the student Graduate Insurance Plan and SLC Health Services

6:30–8 p.m.
Slonim Living Room

Pizza and Rapid-Fire Reading
First graduate student reading of the semester.  Sign-up to read short prose or 1-2 poems

8 p.m.
Leaves from Slonim

Walking Tour of Bronxville

Tours ends at Fogerty’s with Karaoke Night; sponsored by the Graduate Student Senate.

Thursday, September 4th

9 a.m.–5 p.m.
On Campus

Faculty Interviews**
Individual Program Meetings

9 a.m.–4 p.m.
PAC

Registration ends at
4 p.m.

In-person Course Registration
Child Development, Dance, Women’s History and Writing Students (See Pat Dunn)

Friday, September 5th

Open: a chance to relax, unpack, see your neighborhood, meet new friends

Saturday, September 6th

9 a.m.
Westlands Lobby

Registration results
Listing of students not placed in their first choice courses.  Calls will be made between 9–10 a.m. to students who were bumped, if we have the current contact information.

10 a.m.–2 p.m.

Alternate Interviews

2 p.m.
Westlands

Alternate Registration
Material Due

Monday, September 8th

  • Alternate results posted by 9:00 a.m.
  • Classes Begin

** Art of Teaching, Health Advocacy, and Human Genetics Students do not participate in on-campus interviewing unless taking an undergraduate class. Registration is completed through the individual program offices.

*** Returning students in Human Genetics and Health Advocacy – see your individual orientation program.