Morning of Day #2 for CWE Parents

Oh…Day 2! It’s probably the day that everyone thinks about because this is the day that the students and parents get to meet with their advisor. But before that happens in the afternoon of Day 2, there is a lot of information that is crammed into the morning of Day 2. It can all start with an optional yet lovely, brisk jogging tour around campus at 6:30am with a friendly professor and employee of the university, Dr. Doug Hankes. If that doesn’t fit your fancy, you can just arrive for late check-in/breakfast and hear from the Director of Camp War Eagle as he welcomes the new day and offers advice and helpful tips. Starting at 8:15am, there is a series of three Concurrent Sessions, all 25 minutes long, where you have the chance to hear from numerous offices and individuals from the University. These range from helping you set up a college student budget, scholarships, questions about the Meal Plan and TigerCard, and Sorority/Fraternity Recruitment. After all that information, the parents join back together in the ballroom of the Student Center for something called “Freshman Zone”. “Freshman Zone” is a panel of 4 or 5 Parent Counselors who talk about their different college experience and take questions from the crowd. Once that is over, the parents split into two groups. One group stays in the ballroom and hears from other speakers for information pertaining about Housing/Residence Life, On-campus technology, and academic help/advice. The second group heads to Tiger Tables where they get to browse different tables that offices and university programs have set up to answer questions and to provide information. Once those groups are done, they switch so that everyone can benefit from all the great information. After such a busy morning, most of the parents are ready to be re-united with their student and get lunch which is provided in the Student Center. Even though the morning is very long, it provides much of the information that parents want to hear or have questions involving their student’s college career.