Editors: Photographers are invited to campus move-in as volunteers help students get situated. Kittredge Complex (south of Fiske Planetarium and Regent Drive) is expected to be very active. Campus administrators also will greet students from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. on both Aug. 22 and 23.
A small army of volunteers will be on the University of Colorado at Boulder campus Aug. 22-23 welcoming new students, helping them move in and giving directions in an effort to ease them into their new homes away from home.
The volunteers, who will be easy to spot in gold T-shirts, will be located across campus and will include CU-Boulder students, faculty and staff. Over the two-day period, about 300 volunteers, many of them upperclassmen, will be working on campus.
Volunteers will help students move in Aug. 22 from 8 a.m. to noon and Aug. 23 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.
"Most of the student volunteers will be helping new students unload their cars and carry things to their residence hall rooms," said Paula Bland, residence life coordinator for Housing and coordinator of the volunteer effort. "Some students also will be helping the recycling effort by collecting cardboard at the various residence halls," she said.
Also beginning Aug. 22, more than 600 new undergraduate students who have not yet registered will begin advising and registration, which continues through Thursday, Aug. 24. Various welcome activities for those students are planned for Friday, Aug. 25, and classes begin Aug. 28 at 8 a.m.
For the past three years, CU Recycling has coordinated with the Housing Department, Facilities Management, Recycle Boulder and Eco-Cycle to organize cardboard collection for recycling.
During two weeks last year when the majority of students moved in, CUÂ’s residence halls recycled more than 26,000 pounds of corrugated cardboard, according to Marianne Moulton who coordinates the recycling effort.
"ItÂ’s a great way to introduce the new students to recycling on campus, while cutting down on the amount of waste generated," Moulton said.
A move-in committee representing several campus constituencies was founded in fall 1997 with the main goal of getting new students settled.
"We try to do everything we can to make the adjustment from home to college successful," Bland said. "Helping to make the adjustment easier will set our new students up for success in the classroom."