Honors Orientation Welcome Session

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We are so glad you're here. You're here for the KU honors welcome webinar ahead of your orientation appointment this week.

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Alright, I think we have most everybody in thank you so much for being so prompt. So a big welcome and hello to students, parents and guests. We're so glad you're joining us today for the KU honors orientation Walk of Web and R and Q&A. If you're joining us today, that means your orientation and advising appointment is later this week. We're excited to get you situated in your class schedule for the upcoming fall semester.

And we really look forward to showing you a little bit more about the Honors program today. A couple of items of housekeeping before we dive into our presentation. If you need closed captioning that is available to you today, all you need to do is press the CC button in the upper right hand corner of your screen. If you do experience any technical difficulties throughout the presentation, the best thing to do is actually simply refresh the entire page, which will bring you right back into the presentation.

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OK, so we'll go ahead and get started. We'll start by introducing ourselves. My name is Jamie Netzer and I am the communications manager for the University honors program, presenting with me today is Doctor Sarah Crawford Parker, the director of the program. We want to start by talking about what's on this slide. You are here for a reason. By that we mean two things and I want to pass it to Sarah to explain the 1st.

Absolutely good morning everyone. Jamie can you hear me OK?

Wonderful, and we're so glad that you're here today. And as Jamie mentioned, we have a lot of information for you to get you sort of set up for orientation and advising and enrollment this week and also some of the things that are going to be happening in the fall. But before we get to that, we really wanted to take a moment just to sort of reflect on where you've been and and sort of the present moment. And so when Jamie says you're here for a reason, the first reason is that we know that.

You've worked hard. We know that you've had a really exceptional experience in high school. We know that you put a tremendous amount of effort into your application to the Honors program. That's one of the ways that we get to know you is really reading your essays and all of the materials that you submitted. And some of you. If you've done a presentation with me before, but I'm going to share with you now, might sound familiar.

But I wanted to sort of step back and remind everyone the way that we review applications for admission to the Honors program because it's really reflective of the type of experience we want you to have now that you're at the University of Kansas and you're joining the honors community. So when we look at those materials you've submitted your transcript, your essay, your short answer responses. We were really looking for four things. The first was how did you challenge yourself in high school? Were there places where you just?

We push yourself outside of your comfort zone and really embrace challenge in whatever form that looked like at your high school.

The second thing that we looked for is depth. We typically admit students who have developed some area of expertise, so maybe it's a set of courses or discipline that you're you're really, really interested in. Or maybe it's a Co curricular activity that you engaged in for a number of years during high school. But what? What was that place where you went deep?

The third thing that we look for is breath. We are a university honors program so we have students in all the various majors in the professional schools, but also students in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, and so one of the really exciting things about honors is to be in a space where you can think about really big questions and challenges and issues with people that have a range of different academic interests.

And so part of what we were looking for in your application. In addition to that depth, where are the spaces where you connected out, where you broadened your horizon? Maybe you took some courses in different areas so that you can get those other perspectives? That's the third thing we were looking for, and then the fourth thing we were looking for was leadership potential. So we saw an applications a lot of really wonderful things, athletics, student Council debate. But we also saw a lot of activities and involvement that was not.

Connected to your school so some of you worked during high school or had family responsibilities or involved with community organizations or activism and and all of that fell under the umbrella of leadership potential. So we're so excited to see what you do once you get to KU. So so much of the conversation that we're going to be having today is really taking those four elements that we saw in your applications for admission and then really putting them into action as you start to think about what are those.

Things that you want to do. What are those experiences that you want to have as part of your time in college? So with that, I'm happy to to send it back over to Jamie to talk about the second reason why? Why you're here.

Thanks so much, Sarah. So you're here for a reason, means something else to us too. There is a burning question, a critically important challenge or a passion that you're here to pursue at the University of Kansas. You may or may not know what this is yet. And if you don't, there's no need to worry. You may also think you know the reason you're here, only to watch that reason Shift College will transform you.

And it should the transformational power of an exceptional education is one key to launching an extraordinary life. So make sure you remember both of these reasons why you are here.

Another key to launching an extraordinary life is filling it with connection. This quote is from Neelyville, an assistant professor in the School of Architecture and Design, and an honors Faculty fellow who, by the way, is teaching a fantastic honors 190 seminar called Inclusive Cities, which is about the role of architecture and making a community inclusive.

She says if you happen not to know what your future path is, you can launch an extraordinary connection to people around you which can make your life extraordinary too. So we want to reinforce for you that whether this week is an in person experience or an online one. One of the very best things you can do when you first set foot onto the KU campus is to simply be open to the people and the opportunities around you.

So we want to start off our presentation today by bringing in one more faculty voice to speak a little bit about finding the reason you're here and the nature of education that you're about to embark on. Our job in honors is to help you have a really strong start in your major, as well as to encourage connections to those other fields. As Doctor Crawford Parker explained. So speaking in this five minute video on these topics is doctor Katie Batse, associate professor of women, gender and sexuality studies, and another honors faculty fellow.

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Great thank you Jeannie and is my sound back OK good Monday mornings technology you never know how it's going to go. Well one of my favorite things to talk about at any point, but particularly on Monday morning classes. And so I wanted to share with you some opportunities students that you'll have for classes that you'll enroll in this week. Classes are really going to be the foundation.

Of your experience at KU and in the Honors program. And so we really want to make sure that you get a strong start. So students as you're building your schedule, you're going to want to make sure that you have an honors seminar so everybody is required to take honors. 190 when you come in to the Honors program and then we also encourage you to have at least one other honors course and some of you may have more than one honors course. It's really going to depend on your interests in your requirements, so I am going to just.

Feature a couple of the seminars and courses that we have available to you and then at the end of the presentation Jamie is going to get you to our full list, so if you're eager to do some more browsing before you meet with your advisor, you'll have the opportunity to do that.

So honors 190 is our seminar course. It's a small one credit hour course. We typically cap these sections at 11:50 students.

And their top a really amazing faculty, and whoever teaches your seminar, that person will become sort of your honors mentor for your four years that you're in the program. Each seminar has a different topic. We really encourage students to come in with with several in mind, because you never know what exactly is going to fit with your schedule. And also it's really good. This is a great opportunity to take a topic that's entirely new to you. You don't need to feel like you have to take a seminar.

It's closely related to your major. This is just a great chance to explore new topic with a great faculty member and with other new students to the Honors program. So I'm going to feature 2 for you. The first one, the first individual that I'm showing you here on this slide is my good colleague, Doctor Nathan Wood, who's an associate professor of history. He's also a very avid cyclist. He decided a couple of years ago that for environmental reasons that he really wanted to take up cycling, he realized that.

He could oftentimes get to campus more quickly when he rode his bike.

And that has really tapped into his research. Doctor Woods studies, technology and transportation innovations in the early 20th century. I mean, he's actually written a book on this topic, and that's another great thing about the seminars. Is this opportunity to take a course with someone who's an expert and so his seminar in the fall is called the need for speed transportation technologies in culture.

And part of what Doctor Wood is really interested in is how can we go back and study history and see what the response was to the bicycle to the automobile, the streetcar, the train, and how those social and cultural responses might shape where we go in the future when we think about technological innovations. So that connection between you know the historical past and and where we're going and he is an amazing teacher and a fantastic mentor.

So if this if this topic is of interest to you, and please let your advisor know also, he just changed his title over the weekend he was traveling and and and and decided to change his top at his title. So just look for Professor Nathan Wood and that will get you to the right place.

The second one that I wanted to share with you is, is my colleague Professor Derek during candidate who is faculty member in the English department. He is a playwright and he is teaching an honors seminar. He's Co teaching it actually with my colleague Emily Gullikson and their seminar is called creating connections in. This seminar offers a really great opportunity for students to meet with visiting artists from who are going to be performing at the lead center, which is key used.

Performing arts, venue and and so as these visiting artists come to campus. Students are going to be able to meet with them. They're going to be able to see some of the performances and and really the topic they're going to be focusing on is how can the performing arts help us to advance issues of social justice? So how can the performing arts really drive meaningful change in the world, particularly when it comes to issues of equity and inclusion? So if this is something that sounds exciting to you, this is another.

Really, really great seminar option.

Also students you're going to be selecting classes and and we want to make sure that you're in classes that are a really good fit for your interest for your major. Some of your general requirements that you have at the university, and so I want to mention to to you.

Sorry Sarah.

Jamie on the right. Are we on the right side? OK, just wanted to make sure I wasn't getting ahead of the presentation, so I want to mention actually three courses that are our courses. Maybe that you didn't know about or disciplines that are new to you, but that just might really be of interest and and also help you to develop skills that are going to be really critical to all of your coursework at KU. And so the first is is English 205, which is in Honors English course. If you already have credit for composition, this might be a really good option for you.

Particularly if you're in a degree program that requires a second upper level, English and your advisor can help you know if that requirement applies to you. English 205 is a thematic course that focuses on how we read and understand texts.

And so there are two themes.

For this fall, the first is immigration and literature in film, and then the second section is called really big books and both of these topics, even though they're very different, are designed to help students to really develop their skill in analyzing texts, which is something that we do throughout our lives. Whatever our discipline, whatever our field, you may be working in policy and have to to analyze policy documents. You may be a journalist or be working in film.

Or some other field where you're really telling people stories and so narrative is really important. English 205 is is really a great experience to develop those skills. Doctor Mary Claytor, who's one of our honors faculty fellows, said that English 205 is where you will find the absolute best conversations on our campus.

Discussions are incredibly rich and this is also a great place to meet another group of a small group of students in honors.

The other two courses I wanted to highlight for you or from one of my favorite departments. Linguistics impart because they do fantastic teaching. They do great research with students. Many of their courses, including the two I'm sharing with you today, satisfied general requirements that students have in the university. So even if linguistics isn't your major, these can be really great courses for you to take. The first is introductory linguistics, so linguistics 107 and again it's an honors section in this this.

Course is really about the beauty and genius of language and how language is this incredibly complex system that we master really quickly in some amazing ways, and so introductory linguistics looks at how language is structured and cognitively, how we master language and also what are some of the connections between or across different languages taught by a wonderful faculty member.

Linguistics 321 is language and culture and and this again is an honor section and it's open to 1st year students. Just because it's a 300 level course doesn't mean that you can't take it. There are no prerequisites. The topic is just a little bit more focused than the introductory course. Linguistics 321 really focuses on how language functions in culture and and and in particular really looking at how language shapes our sense of identity.

And how power functions through language? So in other words, how is it that sometimes language can help us to understand who's on the inside and who's on the outside of a situation? And why is it a really important skill to be able to detect how power works through language? The faculty member who teaches this course, Professor Dwyer is amazing. It is going to be her last semester teaching the course because she is retiring in December so she'd be.

Very eager to have you in her section. One of the things she really loves about this course too is it hasn't really international component and intercultural component, so it's it's a great opportunity for students, particularly if you're interested in things global.

So again, we have many honors courses available to you, and Jamie is going to point out how to get to those at the end of the presentation and you we don't expect you to come into advising this week with your schedule all figured out, not at all. Your advisor is going to help you to build that, but it might be a good thing to take some time this week just to say. Job dad, you know what are the things that sound interesting to you.

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What are the other things we just want to highlight or what are some things that are going to be happening this year? How outside of your courses are we going to help you to get connected at KU in honors? So one of the first things that we're going to do is at the beginning of the academic year on August 29th and you'll be receiving more information about this. This is an event that will be part of Hawk Week is our honors convocation, which is is the way that we welcome new students to the Honors program and you will receive a formal invitation to this event.

But one piece that I'm most excited about is pictured here. You see, Roddy Abdirahman, who is a current KU honor student Radia, is going to be a senior in the fall, and she is really focused on community health.

Roddy at most recently was awarded what is called the Kathleen McCluskey Fawcett. Outstanding contribution to Honors award, which is a significant recognition that goes to one student each year based on their involvement both at the University of Kansas and in the Honors program.

Radia has done amazing things. She was a university scholar, which is a special program we have for sophomore level students, and she is the executive director of our Center for Community Outreach, which organizes 20 different volunteer opportunities for current KU students.

In the Lawrence community, and she was also one of Ku's nominees for the Truman Scholarship, which is a national fellowship.

So, Radia is a wonderful person. She's going to join me in in sort of welcoming you to the program, and I'm really eager to hear the advice that she has for our newest students.

The second program that I wanted to highlight one of the things that we really emphasize in honors is not only connecting you to our faculty and our staff and fellow students, but also introducing you to alumni. And so we are having an alumni event this fall. The date is still to be determined, so stay tuned. It's going to be by zoom, and when I tell you a little bit more about these individuals, you'll understand why, but this is a conversation for all of our honors.

Scenes, whatever your field, whatever your discipline will be bringing in. Andrew Giesel, who was a KU honors graduate when he was at KU. He double majored in biochemistry and electrical engineering and computer science. He is now the associate director of data Science and AI at Moderna and Andrew was really involved with the this sort of testing of the vaccine at Moderna, really looking at the data.

And and and and thinking through what are the patterns or things that we need to be paying attention to during the clinical trials?

He never thought that he would be working at Moderna Azamara fact he was previously at Harvard working in academia, but had this opportunity and and so really a super interesting individual.

He's going to be joined by a man to try wise, who is also a KU honors graduate. She majored in dance with minors in economics and African African American studies and at the same time she also completed the pre Med curriculum, although ultimately she decided not to go to medical school, she realized she was deeply passionate about social policies, so she has a PhD in social policy from Oxford University and she now works for the World Health.

Organization in Venice and Amanda is really interested in how do we alleviate poverty worldwide? And so the work that she's doing right now with the World Health Organization is focused on as we come out of the pandemic. And as we engage in efforts to to move past the pandemic pandemic, what are the things that we can do to elevate the living conditions of everyone and to ensure that people have been living in poverty are not?

Continuing to struggle with the fallout from the pandemic in in ways that they could be and and so really looking at what what structures might be put in place to really help everyone to thrive. So this is going to be a great conversation with Andrew and Amanda. They're really eager to meet with our students. And again, these are two people who never imagined they'd be in these roles when they're at KU, so they're great examples of sort of how to follow your passions into think big.

The next event that will have will be at the end of this semester. Students I mentioned that you'll all enroll in honors 190 and at the end of this semester will have an Honors Seminar Symposium, which is a really fun event where students, faculty and staff come together and and students share a little bit of what they learned in in their seminar, and one of the learning outcomes that we have for this seminar is helping students to apply and communicate.

What you learn to an outside audience that's again, one of those things that you're going to have to do throughout your your time at KU and beyond. And so we really start that with the Honors Seminar, not just you sharing your work, but also it gives us a really good opportunity to celebrate all that you've accomplished in the fall semester.

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The last event I think this is the last event that I'm sharing and then Jamie is going to tell you how do you keep track of all of these things that we have going on, but the last event I'll share is? Is it really important event that we have in honors called common cause? This was an event that we launched last year. You may be familiar key. You had a very long winter break last year due to the pandemic so we wanted to bring our students, faculty and staff together in January to have an opportunity to really discuss.

An issue that matters to us as a community. So are our first.

Common Cause event focused on racial equity, and the program consisted of a two day symposium where we had sessions throughout each day on things like equity and medicine, native mascots in sports. How can art and literature help us to advance issues related to social justice and here on the slide that you're seeing, this was actually in the very last session that we had, where everybody was coming together and in conversation and and.

And and part of what we hope students will acquire through this program is a good sense of community. So you're meeting other people. You're learning about a topic, so you're growing your knowledge. But then the last piece is we really want you to use that knowledge to do something, and so really thinking through. How can I take what I've learned and use that to improve my community so common 'cause we haven't yet announced what the topic will be for year 2, but that's something that's.

Probably a conversation that will have early in the fall semester, so stay tuned.

So, so hopefully those are some opportunities that are exciting to you and I am going to hand it back to Jamie to share some other details that you'll need for this week.

Excuse me, thanks so much, Sarah. So you might be wondering, how do I find out about all these great opportunities? How do I remember when they're coming up and the best answer for that is the Honors Weekly email.

The Honors Weekly is sent on every Wednesday of the academic year and it's the best way to learn about these upcoming opportunities. To be reminded of upcoming events. To uncover scholarships or internship opportunities. It's also a place where we celebrate one another, so you'll want to start the habit of early on of opening up that email every week to make sure you don't miss out two programs to watch for. Specifically in the weekly include are living in color program, which centers the experiences of students staff.

And faculty of color in the Honors program and take care of Tuesdays which is designed to promote well being and self care among honors students.

So living in color has tackled topics like impostor syndrome and stereotype threat while take care. Tuesdays has covered topics from nutrition to friendship, to creativity to sleep. So all some really incredible options and opportunities that you won't want to miss that are always going to be available to you in the Honors Weekly.

Just a moment.

Of course it is not just our Co curricular programming that makes us stand out. We also have outstanding faculty as have been mentioned, sort of throughout this presentation you've been heard from some of them and a dedicated staff of professionals who are here to support you and to challenge you. So let's meet a few more members of the community that you will be joining.

1st Doctor Crawford, Parker and I are a part of a now ten person staff. Perhaps yes, we need to update this slide for our last week we just had two new people start and Assistant director of admissions and a communication specialist events and Harry, who were so happy to have here. The staff includes advisors, administrative support and more, and all of our jobs involved serving you during your time as a KU student. So hopefully these faces will become very familiar in the fall semester.

And then we also have the 14 faculty fellows who play a really integral role in the teaching and mentoring of honor students. Faculty fellows serve on honors committees, and they act as liaisons between the Honors program and their departments and units across campus. They teach honors sections in their disciplines, and they serve as mentors to honor students, and these are also many of the people who would teach the Honors seminar, which Doctor Crawford Parker explained you will be taking this fall and choosing later on this week.

Then last but not least in terms of community, this photo is of a group of honors, community advocates or HCA members. This is of them participating in this year's the big event, which is a day that connects the KU campus to the Lawrence community for a day of service. So HCA is the student organization of the Honors Program, and their mission is to advocate for and develop an extraordinary community experience for students in the honors program. So watch for them to coordinate social events this fall. Coordinate group. Volunteering like what?

Pictured here and also to fundraise to provide awards to honor students. So an incredible way to get involved, which I know is top of mind for everyone. After more than a year and a half at home more often than we want it to be is to email hcaku.edu.

OK, so shifting gears just a little bit into the practical steps of the rest of this week. If you are enrolling online, the office of Orientation and Transition Programs will send you your specific appointment information 24 hours before your orientation date. If you are enrolling in person, you will get it upon arrival at KU.

If you haven't yet had the chance, make sure to review the honors Academic Information Meeting or aim on our orientation website and your major aim, which can be found in your pre orientation course and then ahead of your advising appointment later this week. You can review on our seminars and honors featured courses to have some options in mind. I'm going to drop these options.

In the chat or these links in the chat, excuse me.

Again, if you have any questions as you're going through this, don't hesitate to reach out to us. No question is too small or too silly.

Then a quick note on how advising works for honor students at KU.

All honors students are are assigned an honors advisor and this person will work with them throughout their time at KU. For the purposes of orientation, students in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences or exploratory pathway students will meet with their honors advisor. If however, you've been admitted to a professional school, you will meet with that professional school advisor because of the very specific nature of those school requirements, but you can rest assured that we work closely with those advising teams. So across our two teams, we're going to make sure you have the schedule that you need.

In addition, every student will have access to drop in hours for questions you may have as you go through this process, including quick questions about honors requirements or honors courses, and it looks like on this slide we are missing the engineering drop in hours information, but I have it so I'm going to drop it into the chat for engineering students in particular. If any of you are here today, Honors faculty fellow Kyle Camarda and Chemical Engineering is also holding drop in hours every Monday and Thursday. I believe much just Mondays.

But just like every Tuesday and Thursday.

Tuesday, Thursday, there it is.

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Perfect so I just dropped that those links and that I'm Tuesdays and Thursdays. Of course, for Doctor Camarda and then general drop in hours are every Monday.

OK, so one final fun step.

If you will take a minute right now and follow KU honors across our social media platforms, whichever ones you use, you don't have to follow across all three. But if you're a heavy Instagram user, we ask that you keep track of us on Instagram. If you use Twitter and Facebook. So on Instagram, we are at honors KU and on Twitter and Facebook. We are at KU honors.

You take a moment to follow us on social media. Now you can collect this lovely common cause tote at orientation or whenever it is that you get to campus in August. If you're doing online orientation.

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So Sofia so so. The vast majority of people who are in this presentation today have not been to orientation and they have their advising appointment in their enrollment appointment this week. We do have a couple of people who were at orientation earlier who maybe didn't have access to this presentation, so we've invited them to a later one. So if you are already enrolled, if you've already met with an advisor, you had your.

Romantic date and you are in a schedule that works for you, then you're fine, but again, as Jamie said, if you do have any questions about your enrollment, or maybe you are feeling like you want to make an adjustment or you want to add an honors course or whatever, the case may be if you just either use the drop in the zoom drop in hours, or just email honors at ku.edu, we will get you connected to an advisor who can help you. Some of you you know one other thing I'll mention some of you may be in a discipline.

Will hold them in Nunamaker for you. If you're doing an online orientation similar to our owners. Weekly emails. Our social media channels provide spotlights on events. They highlight opportunities and really make sure to amplify all kinds of campus fund so we would love to see you on social. I'm refreshing right now to see if we are getting new followers on Instagram as we speak and it looks like we are so so frail to have you. Follow us on social media. Again, it's a really great way to keep in touch with honors. OK, so.

Where they do a little bit of pre enrollment. So for example like pre enrollment in chemistry we do that to sort of up. Or those units do that to sort of ease enrollment a little bit on your orientation day.

Please, no that the only day that you can enroll in classes. It's the day that you're here for orientation and your advisor will help you to figure out how to use, enroll and pay. We don't expect you to come in and know how to use that technology, so you'll go through advising you'll build your schedule. You'll go ahead and enroll, and then for 48 hours after your orientation day, you can go back into the system and make changes. Although we do encourage you to do that in consultation with your advisor if you're making some adjustments.

After 48 hours you will be sort of closed out of the enrollment system until August 2nd and that just allows us time to work with subsequent subsequent groups of students who are coming through orientation. So our goal is really for you to feel like you have a really good schedule when when you leave orientation, but if you do have any questions please just reach out. We're happy to help with those schedule modifications.

OK Sophie, I'm glad that answered your question.

OK.

That is the main content of our presentation and we are welcome. We are happy to answer questions that you might have. Perhaps first Sarah starting with Sophie as she had sent a question sort of during the presentation and said she had her advising appointment last month and was enrolled in honors 190 connecting college to climate change.

And she's wondering if that means she doesn't have to go to orientation or still has to.

I would say you know there are some courses that are closed and there are some seminars that are closed and so that is typically why we say, you know have several options in mind and there are many many good options in mind and then, as Jamie mentioned, some courses might appear closed right now on the schedule of classes, but that's because departments are going to start to open a small number of seats.

Tuesday through Friday of this week. So what I would say is try to be flexible. Try to think about a variety of different requirements that you might fill in the fall and then, as Jamie mentioned, when you go to enroll for your spring semester and that will happen in mid October, you will be in that very first group to enroll on our priority enrollment date and so that is also going to really really help in subsequent semesters. It doesn't mean you'll get every class that you want at the time that you want it, but it.

Really does help you to build a schedule that makes it a good sense for you.

And HCA does have a regular meeting schedule. I don't know that they've established it for the fall, but they will make an announcement when they're having their first meetings. If you really want it, be involved with sort of the running of that organization and and actually, we have some great student leaders that are on the Executive Board for HCA, and they give us a lot of input about the program and they're involved in some really meaningful ways, so they will be sending something out of about when their regular meetings are, but also.

About some of those social events that they plan for all students. So yeah, watch the weekly.

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No. Well I was going to go ahead and try and answer what I think maybe Aaron was, but I'm not 100% sure, so it's about sort of parent involvement in in orientation, particularly with advising and enrollment. If you are coming to an in person program, the office of Orientation and Transition Programs actually has a separate parent track of programs that you will go to some part of the day your with your student, but during other parts of the day you would be on that the parent or guest track.

Our our philosophy with advising and enrollment is always been that that is your students sort of first opportunity to have a conversation with their advisor and and that's something that we're going to want them to actively be doing once they get to KU. So our recommendation is that that's the student and the advisor. However, after your student enrolls and they have their schedule for the fall, if you have any questions about that schedule and I already mentioned we're.

Were available, you know, should the student want or need to make some adjustments. But if you have any questions, the office of orientation and Transition Programs also has a an advising drop in.

I hadn't seen it yet. That's perfect. I see a few and I'm going to go ahead and answer the proof them in the order 'cause I think you started to answer some of them. So Sarah asks, Will I get in an enrolled in Honors seminar or classes with my advisor, or do I have to do something before my appointment so as hopefully was obvious you will enroll with your advisor during your appointment. If you want to look at some honors course options beforehand or honors seminars beforehand, I've kind of person who likes to really take your time and look at look at all of your options ahead of that appointment. You're welcome to, and those are the links.

Wrapped into the chat.

A couple of related questions Charles asks, are there any honors seminars that are closed yet and Kyle asks how Smith asks since we're having orientation later in the summer, do you expect that will have trouble getting into some of the Honors courses that we wish to take this upcoming semester? I can start answering this and then Sarah. You're welcome to to add in lots of departments, including ours practice enrollment management, where throughout the summer we put holds on classes for exactly this reason because one of the benefits of being in the honors.

Program is that in a typical semester you will have priority enrollment, so you'll enroll ahead of the rest of the general student population. So, during orientation, your enrollment is obviously tide to your orientation date, but we should still have lots of availability in classes because of that enrollment management practice. Sarah, anything to add to that?

A room, it's it. I remember exactly. It's in the Jayhawk room in the union so they will have advising staff there all day. If you're here in person and they can answer any questions about your student schedule or like I said, you can reach out to us at honors at ku.edu and will get you connected to our advising team. If there are any questions. But it's just sort of a good opportunity for students to start to to ask questions and speak to their interests and their. You know the goals that they have for the experience and so so.

Typically that's the way that we've had it set up.

Yep.

Absolutely so, so it is. It is absolutely optional if you and as I mentioned, if you're here for an in person day, there is that parent track. If you want to have that experience. But students also have a lot of support when they're going through orientation, so students will be in a student to student group, which is a small group of students who are new to the University of Kansas.

And those groups are led by some really well trained orientation assistants who are really leaders on our campus and they are there to help you sort of navigate through the orientation, experience and answer any questions that you have as you go. So there's a lot of connection and support built into orientation, so so the parent involvement part is is definitely optional.

Wonderful and then Caitlin asks do you have to subscribe to hca.k.edu or is it automatically sent to our KU email? So what else so HCA at ku.edu is the email address of the honors community. Advocates, organist, student organization. So you'll want to reach out to them at that email address if you'd like to get involved. However, what I will say is I think maybe what you're asking is the Honors Weekly email does automatically come to your K email address and in that Honors weekly email.

Is where you'll have lots of opportunity to connect with HCA and other organizations and options, so hopefully that helps. Perfect. Thanks, Caitlin. OK, awesome.

But if you're there, they always loved it. We loved to have parents. You're a really important part of this experience as well.

I'm gonna go ahead and hop off I have a meeting with perspective students coming up here. Pretty quickly on another part of campus. But we're so glad that you're here. We hope you have a wonderful experience and Jamie will stand to answer any other questions. But we're just so excited to to see what you enroll in this week and then to welcome you to campus in August.

And then Aaron had asked a question at at is saying can parents follow? And I'm not positive about the full context on that question. So if you want to add any follow-up context, please do. And then. Also, if anyone else has any questions, it looks like we are through our Q, but we're we're happy to answer any other questions and Sarah if you need to pop off.

OK, sure.

Sarah, I'm watching the clock for your time as Sarah Spring to another presentation today. I I can definitely answer the question about the number of honors courses Caitlin asks, do parents come to orientation? That's optional, correct?

Awesome thanks.

Wonderful.

Sarah, do you want to go ahead? And I don't wanna.

Yeah.

Wonderful, OK.

So I see there a couple more what I will say is if you don't have anymore questions, that's all the presentation that we have for you. Be sure to follow us on social. Thank you so much for your time today and enjoy your orientation appointment and it really enjoyed this transition to becoming a college student. So welcome to KU. And then if you have questions, please feel free to stay on. I'll try to get those answers here. I'm going to switch my screen just a little bit so I can see everything. OK, so Sarah had asked a question.

Uhm, how many honors courses do we have to take each semester? Is there a minimum or maximum number of courses we have to take? This is a great question, Sarah. So to graduate with honors graduate from the University honors program, excuse me to graduate with honors from the University honors program. You need a total of 6 courses and at 18 credit hours. So if you think about across 8 semesters, that's about one course a semester. Many of our students do more than the minimum course requirements.

The other thing to keep them in mind about those course requirements is that typically, the farther you get into your degree, you won't have as many options of honors courses. Honors versions of those courses, so their honors versions of KU core courses, those were general education requirements that everyone is required to take their honors versions of electives, and then there are honors versions of your degree courses. But generally speaking, as a rule of thumb, we recommend one to three honors courses per semester.

Let me know if that cleared that up.

And then then I ax says I had my advising appointment last month. I was only enrolled in my major specific courses, computer science, but no other courses satisfying KU core like Humanities. Is this normal? That is a fantastic question. If you weren't enrolled in your full course schedule, I would go ahead and reach out to the Honors advising team. You can just email honors at ku.edu and will get you to the right place just to make sure that you have that full.

That full course load all the way finished the thing I will say in terms of minimum requirements for the program. The only requirement in terms of enrollment to stay in the honors program is that you are enrolled full time, which is 12 hours as a college student and then yeah. Let's see what else we have here a couple of thank yous great great great we so appreciate it.

Uhm, at orientation, will our advisors tell us which courses are mandatory for our majors? Yes, absolutely. That's at Caitlin. That is exactly what happens there. And as a part of orientation. So you'll get that information there, Charles asks if parents come to the convocation, or if that's just for students. That's a great question. It's just for students. That's really the start of your honors experience. And we are excited to welcome you, intending to make her on that Sunday.

Oh God, I'm so glad that we're answering questions perfect.

Perfect perfect thank you all so much. Is there anything else I can answer? Before we we pop off?

And enjoy the rest of our week.

Oh, Aaron says that her older son joined honors program second semester of his freshman year and hasn't come to a convocation that would make sense if he entered as a transfer student. He might reach out to owners at ku.edu about that too. If you would like to join this, this incoming class is group of convocation that be that be wonderful.

OK, if there's nothing else one more.

Would you recommend that we have an idea of what classes were wanting to take before we get to orientation so we you can you can. I think maybe specifically you could take a look at the list of honors seminars to have some ideas of which ones are interesting, but the truth is that is exactly what your orientation and advising appointments are for, so you also can simply review your major academic information meeting the honors Academic Information meeting and come to the appointment with that in mind.

Is that help?

If you have an in person appointment.

You will get those details when you arrive. I don't actually know exactly when the you know what your day schedule of orientation will be, but if you if you do have an in person appointment, you'll get a schedule upon arrival and that will let you know when your meeting with you or with your advisor, but it will be sometime this week if this is your orientation week.

So glad to be able to answer questions.

Alright, well thanks. Everyone again, really appreciate your time. So glad you're here. Welcome to KU and on your way out. Please give me another rock track and we'll wrap up today's presentation. Thanks so much rock talk.