The Office of First Year Experience Programs (FYE) welcomes you to your new home at Indiana University. We are very excited to be the hub for you as you start your Hoosier Experience. Through FYE programs such as New Student Orientation, Welcome Week, and Hoosier Experience programming, we'll introduce you to IU traditions, connect you with events, people, services, and opportunities—and help you live The Indiana Promise.
Your first year has so much in store for you—embrace it all. You will experience amazing academic opportunities and preparation for the future, for new friendships and connections with people from all over the world, and for incredible growth. There will be great successes, adjustments, and even stumbles, but all will provide a chance to learn more about yourself, to build your community, and to become who you are meant to be.
FYE is here to help, and this handbook is just a start to all that is here for you. Reach out to us anytime at fye@iu.edu, 812-855-4357, via social media, or at our office at 1514 E. Third Street, near Forest Residence Center.
Congratulations—and welcome to the Hoosier family!
Welcome Week at IU
Your next step in your Hoosier Experience: jump in as soon as you get here. Attend Welcome Week in August and Welcome Events in January. We can’t wait to welcome you to the Hoosier family—and to the beautiful IU campus. Exciting events and traditions will help you connect with other students and navigate campus. Check the IU Events Calendar and filter for Welcome Week to find events daily. With big and small events, academic and social events, and events designed to help you start to experience all that IU has to offer—some required, all recommended—you will be glad you chose to become a Hoosier.
The Hoosier Experience
With the Hoosier Experience program, you’ll build your own journey and make your college experience everything you want it to be. You’ll have the opportunity to meet other Hoosiers, find exciting new activities and interests, and learn all about IU Bloomington.
You will also be able to explore, engage, and reflect with events and activities that will challenge you and teach you something new about:
- Academics & Careers
- Arts & Humanities
- Equity & Inclusion
- Health & Wellness
- Leadership & Engagement
- Tradition & Community
Continue with your FYE Canvas modules to build your Hoosier Experience with resources, tips from students, and campus events.
Watch this video to see how you can create your Hoosier Experience:
Description of the video:
FYE Hoosier Experience How to
Descriptive transcript
[Upbeat music plays.]
[Video: The screen looks like a white sheet of paper. A graphic appears over the paper with a badge icon with a check mark on it, and the words Hoosier Experience.]
Narrator: We know you're excited and ready to start creating your own unique Hoosier experience. And we’re here to help you get started.
[Video: Several small videos appear one at a time in a grid formation. They feature students engaged in different activities, like community service, cultural exhibitions, and cheering at a sporting event.]
Narrator: The Hoosier Experience program is a way for you to make your first year truly your own.
[Video: The videos fade away and the screen shows the white paper background. The words your first year appear at the top of the screen. Then words appear as they are read: academics and careers, arts and humanities, equity and inclusion, health and wellness, leadership and engagement, tradition and community.]
Narrator: With events and activities that will help you learn more about academics and careers, arts and humanities, equity and inclusion, health and wellness, leadership and engagement, and tradition and community.
[Video: The words disappear, and drawings of red tulips pop up at the bottom of the screen. Then a drawing of the Sample Gates appears behind the tulips. Then graphics of a trophy and a certificate appear above the Sample Gates.]
Narrator: The Hoosier Experience program will help you explore IU and expand your world. And you can even earn incentives as you participate.
[Video: The drawing disappears. The words how it works appear on the left and graphic of a phone appears on the right. The IU logo appears on the phone screen with the words IU mobile, find events and opportunities.]
Narrator: Here's how it works. Use the IU Mobile app to find events and opportunities.
[Video: The words on the phone float up and disappear. The be involved logo appears on the phone with the words explore your pathways, track your progress.]
Narrator: And log into be involved to explore your pathways and track your progress.
[Video: The words and graphics float off screen. The words three Hoosier Experience tiers appears.]
Narrator: As you complete activities and get involved on campus, you'll move through three Hoosier Experience tiers.
[Video: The words float up and off screen. A circle floats up from the bottom to the center of the screen. It has a number one above it. A graphic of a magnifying glass and the word explore are in the center of the circle.]
Narrator: Dip your toe in all the IU offers as you explore in tier one.
[Video: An arrow appears that connects circle one to circle two which floats up from the bottom of the screen. Circle two has the word engage and a megaphone graphic in the center.]
Narrator: Dig in deeper as you engage with events and organizations in tier two.
[Video: An arrow appears that connects circle two to circle three which floats up from the bottom of the screen. Circle three has the word reflect and a lightbulb graphic in the center.]
Narrator: And take a moment to reflect on your experience in tier three.
[Video: An arrow appears that connects circle three to a final circle which floats up from the bottom of the screen. The last circle has the word earn and a certificate graphic in the center. A check mark appears next to the word earn.]
Narrator: When you complete each tier, you'll earn exclusive IU swag.
[Video: A number six appears in the first circle, then a number three appears in circle two, and then a number one appears in circle three. Then a three appears in the final circle.]
Narrator: You'll need six activities to complete tier one, three activities to complete tier two, and only one activity to complete tier three. That's three tiers and three different incentives.
[Video: The graphics float off screen and a laptop graphic appears with the be involved logo on its screen. Then the laptop floats away and the badge with a check mark graphic from earlier appears.]
Narrator: Then when you complete all three and record your participation in beINvolved, you'll earn the first year Hoosier Experience achievement award.
[Video: The badge disappears and the video grid showing students in different activities appears again.]
Narrator: So go ahead, start exploring, engaging and creating a Hoosier experience that is uniquely yours.
[Video: The video grid disappears, and the screen goes black. The IU trident logo and the words First Year Experience Programs appears, with the website address f y e dot Indiana dot e d u.]
Narrator: FYE is here with you every step of the way.
[The upbeat music grows louder then fades.]
[End of transcript.]
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