First-Year Experience
First-Year Experience Information
Mission and Goals
2024-2025
First-Year Experience Mission Statement:
The First-Year Experience (FYE) provides academic and social enrichment for first year students. Starting with two years of free tuition, through College Promise, FYE offers educational support services to all 91¹û¶³ÖÆƬ³§ students, including Counseling, Success Coaching and Success Management. FYE also offers Family and Community Engagement Services (FACES) to prospective students and their families. FYE's holistic approach ensures 91¹û¶³ÖÆƬ³§ students are Seen, Heard and Connected.
First-Year Experience Goals:
What is the purpose of the First-Year Experience?
FYE staff collaborates with scholars to help them succeed during their first year and persist to their second year at 91¹û¶³ÖÆƬ³§.
Counseling, success management, and dynamic programming ensure that FYE scholars do well academically and socially.
The First-Year Experience ensures that all first-year scholars have a home at 91¹û¶³ÖÆƬ³§ and are continuously inspired to achieve greatness.
Benefits of making the First-Year Experience Home:
FYE scholars enroll in learning communities that have built-in academic supports.
Throughout the scholars’ year commitment with FYE, they learn about and develop self-advocacy skills and pursue a college-going mindset via various programming, mentorship, counseling and educational trips in collaboration with the Transfer Center.
FYE scholars have full support from a dedicated and empowering family. The FYE family includes staff and professors who are equipped to fully guide students to reach their academic potential, inspire them to transfer to a four-year university and achieve greatness.