Orientation and Transition

Welcome Week

Induction Activities

The Freshman Induction Ceremony marks, with pageantry and fanfare, the beginning of your IU career. Your family is also invited to attend.

Held at the IU Auditorium, this tradition includes a welcome and advice from distinguished guests such as IU President Michael A. McRobbie. You’ll also be invited to make your Indiana Promise, a commitment to IU and to yourself to be ethical, responsible, and respectful.

Afterwards, join other families and members of the IU community for the induction picnic under a canopy of trees.

Reservations

To ease your planning, two ceremonies are scheduled; new students and their families may attend either one. Each ceremony is approximately 45 minute in length, with the picnic immediately following.  Tickets are not required to attend the Freshman Induction Ceremony, but you are asked to make reservations.  New students will be sent information about RSVPs during the summer prior to their freshman year.

  • Students and their families are sitting on blankets on a lawn having a picnic.
  • Students and their families are sitting on blankets on a lawn having a picnic.
  • Students and their families are walking towards IU Auditorum for IU's Freshman Induction Ceremony.
  • Hundreds of students and their parents are seated in IU Auditorum for the Freshman Induction Ceremony.
  • Students and parents seated in IU Auditorum listen while President of IU, Michael McRobbie, addresses them, with distinguished guests seated behind him on the stage.
  • President of IU, Michael McRobbie, speaking during the Freshman Induction Ceremony.
  • IU Provost, Karen Hanson, speaking during the Freshman Induction Ceremony.
  • Students and parents exiting IU Auditorium.
  • A student and his parents pose for a photograph in front of Showalter Fountain.