Bridget Trodgen
Dean of Undergraduate Education and Academic Student Services

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📍 Countdown to Orientation: 2 weeks!

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"As tempting as it is, don't use all your dining dollars early in the semester! From personal experience, you'll regret it later on if you buy an iced vanilla latte from the Bridge EVERY day. Plan your spending wisely!"

Abby Quirk, Orientation Chair
College of Arts and Sciences (CAS)

Welcome to AU, transfer students!

This message is just for you! We've planned some special transfer-specific events for Orientation, so keep an eye out for details in the Orientation schedule.

And be sure you're enrolled in the transfer section of AUx (CORE-196), where you'll connect with other transfer students who are navigating the same transition. Welcome, Eagles!

Please contact Diane Palmer, Coordinator of Transfer Student Success, with any questions.

📱Looking for paid part-time employment during the semester? The Part-Time Employment Job Fair is the opportunity for you! Engage with on-campus departments hiring for both Federal Work-Study (FWS)-eligible positions and non-FWS positions and off-campus organizations hiring for paid part-time roles. Register for the fair on Handshake here!

If you have any questions, please contact Oliver Ruiz-Gomez at oruizgomez@american.edu.  

📋 It's an election year! Did you know you can vote by absentee ballot? The process differs by state (e.g., some states require that students complete a form in person before they leave for school). Library staff works to ensure students know about the processes and can assist you.

📍Have you read the welcome email about orientation? It begins in just a few weeks, so make sure to take your time to read through that email; it contains a lot of important details for you about orientation—both leading up to and during the program. If you have questions, email us at orientation@american.edu and we'll be happy to help!

📖 Have you started reading your copy of Against Technoableism? This is required summer reading for your College Writing course, a first-semester class that all first-year students must participate in.

🔀 You're still able to add proxies to your student account! Adding a proxy provides family members access to view/pay your bill and access to your educational record, but the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) gives you the ability to control who has access to what parts of your student record. Learn more about FERPA here.

✨ Hosted by the Office of Alumni Relations in collaboration with the Office of Enrollment and the Center for Diversity and Inclusion, the 2024 Summer Welcome Series invites incoming students to meet fellow Eagles, hear from alumni about their AU experiences, and learn about resources offered to students by the Alumni Association and our Alumni Affinity Alliances and Networks. All welcomes are virtual and hosted on Zoom.

Thank you Eagles for completing your New Student Questionnaire, which helped us help you get registered for classes this fall. We also wanted to thank you for answering our Summer Survey questions as well. We heard you and appreciate you sharing your questions. Given that we have completed our New Eagle Essentials webinars, have provided Flight Ready! content in Canvas, and will see you in a few short weeks for in-person orientation, we wanted to provide you with some key contacts should you have outstanding questions you need assistance with now:

📣 As a new Eagle, what are you most excited to get involved in on campus? Tell us more about you and your interests by completing the Eagle Engagement Survey. It should take about two minutes to complete. You can find it your AU email inbox by searching for ‘Eagle Engagement Survey.’ Results can be used to improve the student experience and connect you with resources to support you to make the most of your AU journey. Don’t miss this important opportunity!

💵 Sophomore Swifties craft new class on Taylor Swift's economic savvy. Click below to read an article from the Summer 2024 issue of American, the American University magazine.