Editors: Photographers are invited to campus as volunteers help students move into residence halls. Kittredge Complex (south of Fiske Planetarium and Regent Drive) will be busy and is the easiest residence hall to access.
University of Colorado at Boulder students, faculty and staff will welcome new undergraduates to the campus and help them move into their residence halls on Aug. 20 and Aug. 22.
More than 700 students and 200 faculty and staff members volunteered for the effort and will help from 8 a.m. to noon on Aug. 20 and from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Aug. 22.
"We try to do everything we can to make the adjustment from home to college successful," said Paula Bland, residence life coordinator for the Department of Housing and coordinator of the volunteer effort.Ìý "Helping to make the adjustment easier will set our new students up for success in the classroom."
Student volunteers will help new students unload their cars and carry belongings to their rooms in each residence hall location.Ìý Faculty and staff will be available to answer questions and provide information to students and parents at the Williams Village Complex, Kittredge Complex and Regent Lawn, north of Regent Hall.
Volunteers from the CU Environmental Center will help gather and recycle cardboard boxes and educate students on the importance of recycling.
A week of welcome activities for freshmen begins Aug. 20 and will run through Aug. 26, the first day of fall semester classes. The chancellor's convocation for all freshmen will be held Aug. 23 at 5:30 p.m. in the historic Norlin Quadrangle.
For more information, contact Bland at (303) 492-3347.