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Welcome Week to scale back on social events, offer hybrid experience

Alysa Guffey | Tuesday, August 4, 2020

Instead of the annual Welcome Weekend, the Office of Student Affairs and First-Year Advising will hold Welcome Week to safely introduce first-year students and their families to Notre Dame. Typically, first-year students move in the Friday before classes begin and participate in Welcome Weekend, a Friday through Sunday program that combines social events between dorms

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First Year of Studies undergoes changes, ceases to be its own college

Mary Steurer | Friday, August 23, 2019

The semester introduces a series of organizational changes to academic advising. Perhaps most notably, the First Year of Studies — now dubbed First Year Advising — is no longer its own college. The name change follows a number of core curriculum changes ushered in by the University’s most recent core curriculum review. Among these was