First-Year Experience

Guiding your success

St. Norbert College’s First-Year Experience (FYE) is a three-tiered program designed to help you succeed in your first year of college.

This comprehensive experience begins during summer orientation in June. Then, first-year students arrive on move-in day in late August and experience Welcome Week to kick off the start to the academic year.

FYE’s final tier expands into the first semester of classes with a program developed to guide first-year students in their first semester of college life. This is a co-curricular common experience for all first-year students that is led by older students and college staff. It is meant to introduce you to St. Norbert College and what it's like to be a college student.

Summer Orientation

This two-day program is required for all admitted first-year students. Summer orientation gives you a chance to become familiar with the St. Norbert campus before arriving for fall semester. Families are encouraged to accompany their students.

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Move-In Day

Move-in day for first-year students takes place the Thursday before classes start for fall semester. You will be moving into your assigned residence hall with the help of faculty, staff and students, and becoming acquainted with your new home.

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Welcome Week

Welcome Week begins the day you move onto campus. While Summer Orientation concentrates on getting your academic “nuts and bolts” squared away, Welcome Week helps you become more comfortable with the campus and gives you an introduction to the co-curricular side of St. Norbert College.

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First-year resources

Course timetable

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Academic calendar

College catalog

Academic advisement

Health insurance

Student accounts

Student organizations

Become a Green Knight mentor

Do you want to help incoming first-year students understand the best things about St. Norbert? Become a Green Knight mentor! These students will work with BOTH Week of Welcome and some FYE co-curricular programming. There is also the opportunity to be a mentor at summer orientation.

Applications are now available!

NEW FYE MENTOR APPLICATION

If you have been an FYE mentor at SNC, please complete this application.