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Skidmore College

Transfer Orientation 2021 (tentative)

 

Sunday, September 5

Time
Event
Place
8:30 a.m. – 12 noon
New Student Check-In
Student ID Card Distribution
Zankel Parking Lot

9 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
Information Walkway  
Case Center Walkway
11 a.m. – 1:15 p.m.
Complimentary Lunch
Murray-Aikins Dining Hall
1:30 – 2:30 p.m.
Residential Hall Meet & Greet
Res Hall Floors/small group
2:45 – 4 p.m.
Transfer Orientation Meeting
Emerson Auditorium, Palamountain Hall
1:30 – 3:30 p.m.
Parent Program (optional)
South Park Tent
4:15 – 5:30 p.m.
Convocation

Sports Center: Students

South Park Tent: Families

5:30 – 7 p.m.
Transfer Student Dinner
Tang Tent
7:30 – 9:00 p.m.
Factuality
Davis Auditorium, Palamountain Hall
9:00 p.m. – 11 p.m.
Ice Cream Social
South Park Tent

 

Settling In

Monday, September 6

Time
Event
Place
7 – 10 a.m.
Breakfast (limited after 8:45 a.m.)
Murray–Aikins Dining Hall
10 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.

Exploremore:

- Campus tour
- Resource fair
- Lunch

Case Green or Sports Center

Student Affairs / Health Services / Counseling Center / SAS / Religious Life / Sustainability / Writing Center / Res Life / Idea Lab and more

3:30 – 5 p.m.

Sex Discussed Here 

OR

Sophomore Event

Davis Auditorium, Palamountain Hall

 

South Park Tent

5:30 – 7:30 p.m.
Dinner
Murray – Aikins Dining Hall
8:00- 9:30 p.m.
Movie Night!

Case Green

 

Preparing for Class

Tuesday, Sept. 7

Time
Event
Place
7:30 – 9:30 a.m.
Breakfast
Murray – Aikins Dining Hall
10 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
Special Advising
Assigned Rooms
12 noon – 1:30 p.m.
Lunch
Murray-Aikins Dining Hall
2 – 4 p.m.

Transfer social 

Fall 2020, Spring 2021, Fall 2021 transfers all invited

Small group sophomore events also happening

Tang Tent

 

Sophomore events: Please see Sophomore Orientation schedule

4:30 – 7:30 p.m.
Founder's Day Picnic
Tent
8 – 9 p.m.
Community Standards Meeting  
Res. Hall Floors

Upcoming Events

Time
Event
Wednesday, September 8
Classes begin
Friday, September 10
Club Fair - Case Green
Friday, September 17 
Transfer Student Career Development Center Open House
Monday, September 20
Sophomore and Transfer Student Reception / Open House, Scribner House