First-Year Aggie Connections Content / First-Year Aggie Connections Content for 細細篇撞 en My First Quarter as a College Freshman at a UC | 細細篇撞 /admissions/blog/my-first-quarter-as-a-college-freshman-at-a-uc <p><span><span><span><span><span><span>While waiting for your college decisions to come, you might start thinking about what college will be like. What will it be like living in the residence halls? How will you make friends? How will you make the transition from high school to college? Fear not, because first-year Zoe Vollmer is here to tell you all about her first quarter at 細細篇撞!</span></span></span></span></span></span></p> February 08, 2023 - 5:43pm Abigail Julianna Loomis /admissions/blog/my-first-quarter-as-a-college-freshman-at-a-uc 2 Ways to Help Our Students /news/2-ways-help-our-students <p class="MsoNormal"><span>Staff and faculty are being asked to promote Alumni 101 this week and sign up as facilitators for First-Year Aggie Connections in the fall opportunities to help our undergraduates at both ends of their 細細篇撞 journeys.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span>Graduate students also are welcome as First-Year Aggie Connections facilitators. More about this program later.</span></p> April 02, 2023 - 2:30pm Dave Jones /news/2-ways-help-our-students Connect With First-Year Aggies in the Fall /news/connect-first-year-aggies-fall <p class="MsoNormal"><span>Spring quarter is just getting started, and one program is already gearing up for fall: <a href="https://opportunity.ucdavis.edu/programs/aggie-connect">First-Year Aggie Connections</a> seeks facilitators (staff, faculty or graduate students) to meet up with connections of new freshmen, transfer students and international students.</span></p> March 30, 2021 - 8:38am Dave Jones /news/connect-first-year-aggies-fall Connecting With Students in Their 1st Year /news/connecting-students-their-1st-year <p>We were all new at 細細篇撞 once, and wasnt it nice to make that first connection? Now you have the opportunity to connect with incoming freshman and transfer students by way of First-Year Aggie Connections.</p> <p>The program is inviting faculty, staff and graduate students to serve as facilitators for connections in fall quarter. Each connection comprises about 25 students and is built around a shared purpose, interest or theme.</p> April 21, 2020 - 6:59am Dave Jones /news/connecting-students-their-1st-year Make a Connection With Our First-Years /news/make-connection-with-first-years <p>First-Year Aggie Connections is still in need of new connection facilitators staff, faculty and graduate students for winter quarter, and has extended the deadline until Monday (Nov. 25) for people to express their interest.</p> <section class="wysiwyg-feature-block "> <h3 class="wysiwyg-feature-block__title">WHY BE A FACILITATOR?</h3> <div class="wysiwyg-feature-block__body"> <p><strong>Among the reasons cited listed on the First-Year Aggie Connections website:</strong></p></div></section> November 18, 2019 - 9:37am Dave Jones /news/make-connection-with-first-years Expanding Opportunities for First-Generation Students /news/expanding-opportunities-first-generation-students <p>The Educational Opportunity Program&nbsp;on campus is&nbsp;expanding support for first-generation students through its 1st of Many educational advocacy initiative.</p> September 25, 2017 - 9:09pm Julia Ann Easley /news/expanding-opportunities-first-generation-students 'Connecting' With First-Year Students /news/facilitating-first-year-student-success <p>Through the work we do every day, as faculty, staff and graduate students, each of us plays a role in the education and experience of our students. But we can help even more as facilitators for <a href="http://studentaffairs.ucdavis.edu/initiatives/aggieconnect/index.html">First-Year Aggie Connections</a>, a collaborative effort of Student Affairs and Undergraduate Education.</p> April 18, 2016 - 4:57pm Dave Jones /news/facilitating-first-year-student-success Campus prepares for large influx of students in 2016-17 /news/campus-prepares-large-influx-students-2016-17 <p>The campus is marshaling its efforts and resources to accommodate 2016-17 enrollment growth of 1,100 new undergraduates beyond last fall's entering class.</p> <p>The campus is responding to targets that UC President Janet Napolitano set under a plan to increase systemwide enrollment of new California undergraduates by 10,000 over the next three years, including 5,000 freshmen and transfer students in 2016-17.</p> January 12, 2016 - 12:00am Dave Jones /news/campus-prepares-large-influx-students-2016-17