Welcome Week is a great time to connect with new friends, find your way around campus, and have some fun before the semester begins. Below is a daily schedule of events for your first week on campus.
The schedule below is from Welcome Week 2024. Check back in summer 2025 for schedule updates for Welcome Week 2025.
Welcome Week Dining
- August 17–18: 9:30 a.m.–7:00 p.m.
- August 19–23: 7:00 a.m.–7:00 p.m.
- August 24–25: 9:30 a.m.–7:00 p.m.
Dining at the Hawk HUB, Crimson Café, and Folger Student Center will open on Monday, August 26.
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Open Swim
- M–F: 11:00 a.m.–2:00 p.m.
- Tu/Th: 6:00–8:00 a.m.
- M, W, F: 5:00–8:00 p.m.
SCUBA lessons are offered in the Lepley Natatorium from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. on Thursday, August 22.
Welcome Week Information Table
M–F: Noon–1:00 p.m.
HUB Fitness Center
M, T, W: 6:30 a.m.–6:00 p.m.
Saturday, August 17
8:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m.
- New Student Move-In
7:00–8:00 p.m.
- Residence Life Floor Meetings
9:00–Midnight
- Folger Late Night
Sunday, August 18
8:00 a.m.–1:00 p.m.
- New Student Move-In
7:00–8:00 p.m.
- Residence Life Floor Meetings
8:00–9:00 p.m.
- Playfair
9:00–Midnight
- Folger Late Night
Monday, August 19
9:00–10:30 a.m.
- Campus Tours
- Check-in with your Welcome Week Leader
9:30–10:30 a.m.
- Yoga in the Oak Grove
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11:00 a.m.–Noon
- It's in the Syllabus
Noon–1:00 p.m.
- Welcome Week Information Table
1:00–3:00 p.m.
- Cook Honors College Meeting
3:30–4:30 p.m.
- University Welcome
4:30–7:00 p.m.
- Community Dinner
9:00–Midnight
- Folger Late Night
Tuesday, August 20
9:00–10:30 a.m.
- Campus Tours
- Check-in with your Welcome Week Leader
10:00 a.m.–11:00 a.m.
- Green Dot Training
- , Room 112
11:00 a.m.–Noon
- TechTok
Noon–1:00 p.m.
- Welcome Week Information Table
1:00–2:00 p.m.
- TechTok
2:00–3:00 p.m.
- Group III Workshops: Crossing the Line, Difficult Dialogues
- , Room 215
3:00–6:00 p.m.
- Military and Veterans Resource Center (MVRC) Affinity Group Meeting
6:00–9:00 p.m.
- Chalking the Grove, Yard Games, and Tie Dye
9:00–Midnight
- Folger Late Night
Wednesday, August 21
9:00–10:30 a.m.
- Campus Tours
- Check-in with your Welcome Week Leader
9:30–10:30 a.m.
- Green Dot Training
- , Room 112
11:00 a.m.–Noon
- Group III Workshops: Crossing the Line, Difficult Dialogues
- , Room 215
Noon–1:00 p.m.
- Welcome Week Information Table
1:00–2:00 p.m.
- Employment and Financial Resources
2:00–3:30 p.m.
- Employment Fair
- , Lobby
2:00–3:30 p.m.
- Learning Commons Tour
2:30–3:30 p.m.
- Yoga in the HUB
3:30–5:00 p.m.
- LGBTQIA+ Student Affinity Group Meeting
4:45–6:00 p.m.
- Mathematics and Mathematics Education Majors
- , Room 240
7:00–9:00 p.m.
- Outdoor Movie
- Foster Lawn (Rain location: )
9:00–Midnight
- Folger Late Night
Thursday, August 22
9:00–10:00 a.m.
- Green Dot
- , Room 112
- Group III Workshop: Crossing the Line, 4 Corners
- , Room 215
11:00–Noon
- All Education Majors Meeting
- , Beard Auditorium
Noon–1:00 p.m.
- Department of Anthropology, Geospatial and Earth Sciences Meeting
- , Room 203 (Planetarium)
Noon–1:00 p.m.
- Welcome Week Information Table
1:00–2:00 p.m.
- Speech-Language Pathology Majors Meeting
- , Room 403
2:00–4:00 p.m.
- Black and Brown Students Affinity Group Meeting
4:00–6:00 p.m.
- Talon Walk
9:00–Midnight
- Folger Late Night
Friday, August 23
10:00–11:00 a.m.
- Yoga in the HUB
- Sociology Majors Meeting
- , Room 101
Noon–1:00 p.m.
- Welcome Week Information Table
Noon–1:00 p.m.
- Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice Meeting
- , first floor
Noon–1:00 p.m.
- Interior Design Majors Meeting
- , second floor
12:30 p.m.–1:15 p.m.
- Art Studio and Art Education Majors Meeting
3:00 p.m.
- Graphic Design Majors Meeting
- , Room 308
3:30 p.m.
- Department of Communications Media Meeting
- , Room B-23
7:00–9:00 p.m.
- BINGO!
- , Ohio Room
9:00–Midnight
- Folger Late Night
Saturday, August 24
1:00–4:00 p.m.
- Crimson Carnival Block Party
9:00–Midnight
- Folger Late Night