Mississippi University for Women is ready to welcome students to their campus residences, said MUW Director of Community Living Sirena Parker.
Numerous activities are planned to welcome students to school and help will be available for move-in day, Aug. 15.
“We”re expecting 600 students (to move in),” Parker said, noting the school again will be at full capacity for residential housing. “We just sent them all move-in guides, with maps and what they can and can not bring on campus. We also sent a Welcome Week schedule and we have a lot of events that start on move-in day.”
From noon to 5 p.m. Aug. 15, MUW will have staff and volunteers on hand to help students move their belongings into their new homes.
Students and their families will be “greeted by numerous staff members, students and community members,” as soon as they exit their vehicles, Parker noted.
“I think it”s great the community and staff are coming out and getting to meet the new students, as they”re arriving with their families,” she said. “That makes a big impression on the parents.”
Additionally, water and snack stations will be set up throughout campus on move-in day.
Also on move-in day, from 5 p.m. to 6:30 p.m., students can “mingle, get together and have dinner” during a “big block party,” Parker said.
Classes start Aug. 18.
Other Welcome Week activities include a “late-night breakfast” from 9 p.m. to 10 p.m. in the Hogarth Cafeteria the night before classes begin.
And students will be invited to put their handprints, with road paint, on the road near Kincannon Hall, during the Making Your Mark event, held at 7 p.m. Aug. 18.
“They”ll be there throughout the year,” Parker said of the handprints, which will be placed on a road to be renamed as Freshmen Drive. “It”s kind of like their road.”
A “polo shirts and mini-skirts” party will be held in Cochran Ballroom from 9 p.m. to midnight Aug. 19 and karaoke will be held Aug. 20 at 7 p.m. in Hogarth.
A full schedule of Welcome Week events can be viewed at www.muw.edu.
Mississippi State University officials also are ready to help students move into residences on the MSU campus.
Faculty and staff will be available to help students move into campus housing Aug. 11, during the fifth annual MVNU2MSU event.
Parent and student check-in begins at Humphrey Coliseum at 8 a.m. and students will be directed to one of 14 residence halls, including the newly constructed South Hall.
MSU requires first-year male and female students to live on campus, except for those over the age of 21, married students, students with children, military veterans with two years of active service, students who live with parents or guardians not more than 30 miles from campus or students with a compelling and documented personal circumstance.
More information is available at www.msstate.edu.
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