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[Video: The screen displays a slide deck presentation with a background image of four students cheering in a crowd. They wear cream and crimson shirts that say “Indiana” and “IU is home.” Text on the slide reads Congratulations, Hoosiers! The speaker’s video appear in the upper right corner of the screen.]

Kelly: Hello, and welcome everybody. My name is Kelly Waggoner. I'm the Associate Director of Transfer Recruitment in the Office of Admissions, and we are extremely happy to have you here today to share more information about the possibilities that you are going to have as an admitted student at IU Bloomington. So, to give you an idea of what we're gonna have here for you today is a panel with some experts that are gonna answer some of your additional questions as you move into IU, or maybe just deciding whether IU is the best option for you at this point. So, at any time that you have questions, we are going to have the Q and A feature open so that you can ask those, and then we'll also have opportunities at the end of each of the panels in order to allow you to ask any of your questions.

I do want to start off our session today with inviting our Vice Provost David Johnson to welcome our future Hoosiers. David.

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David: Thank you, Kelly, and it's great to be here this afternoon with a number of colleagues that are here dedicating their time to share information with all of you. Good afternoon and welcome to the Virtual Admitted Transfer Student Event. Let me first say, congratulations on your transfer admission to IU. Today we celebrate your accomplishment and your academic journey that got you here. Joining us in this virtual space today are admitted students from 13 states, from Washington to Massachusetts. You have come together today to learn more about Indiana University Bloomington, and to continue, or hopefully continue your path towards becoming a Hoosier. As you know, college is a defining time in life for all of us, and where you figure out who you are going to be, you are reinforcing what's important to you, and at IU you get to learn from others who bring their unique experiences from around the globe and from faculty who have not only spent their careers researching the topics that you're studying, but also they may be the global authority on the topic. So, you could think about how you can build on your experiences that you've already had in college with these new opportunities that you'll find at IU, and you'll launch toward a successful and fulfilling future.

So, on your journey you will be preparing for careers, some of which are not yet even imagined. So, how do you even do that? Well, we've thought about that. And in fact, we're cracking an entire strategic plan around your success and those future options. It begins with a thorough and engaging new transfer student orientation experience that you would experience right before you come to the institution. And it's designed to help you get to know your new school and to meet other new students. You'll leave orientation feeling confident and connected to the IU community. Then as you move further into your experience, you will be supported by faculty, advisors, staff, and even your fellow students, who will offer critical guidance and mentoring. And let's not forget about another important group of mentors, the second largest alumni network in the country. We have over 760,000 Hoosiers to support you throughout your journey, and beyond. So, I'm sure you'd have the opportunity to connect with 1, 2 or more of our alumni.

When it comes to your academic preparation, you have the opportunity to choose from more than 200 majors and 550 academic programs to find the unique combination that matches your interests and that prepares you for those careers not yet imagined. So, credits that you've already earned may transfer to IU, or you could earn credits for nonacademic learning experiences and educational experiences in the armed services, giving you a solid foundation to build on. And IU’s sophisticated career services structure will offer you support. We have 10 specialized career service teams that will help you with programs and career opportunities along the way. And at IU, you will combine your academic learning with practical and high impact experiences. You can take advantage of the fifth largest overseas study program in the country. Perhaps you've been wanting to go abroad, and you haven't had that opportunity. And at IU you can have that chance. We have 380 unique offerings making the globe and extension of the classroom for you. You can test your theories and your interests with conducting critical research in the field with renowned faculty, who are also dedicated to teaching you in the classroom every day. You can secure an internship that gives you direct experience in the field, perhaps you've already had an internship, but you could always have another that gives you deeper understanding or to explore a new area or new path for a career that you might be interested in. Your IU experience will create pathways that remain open even as the world shifts. Just as you likely won't study only one thing you want to be prepared to do more than one type of career. And so throughout your time here, you'll build on your current skills and continually add new ones that will make you ready for a multiple options and opportunities.

All of the academic and career opportunities are bundled with meaningful experiences of personal fulfillment. This is where you will forge lifelong friendships and build amazing memories. You will experience year-round arts and cultural events, participate and perhaps lead in one of more than the 800 student organizations that we have. You can cheer on world-class athletes in Assembly Hall on campus, or you might attend a Broadway traveling production that is performed at the IU Auditorium.

Right now, as a newly admitted transfer student, you're sitting among future leaders, artists, and policymakers of the world. You will bring in individual gifts, and together you will create a collective Hoosier experience and become part of something larger than yourself and bringing also your own experiences into that conversation with other students. That experience and those connections along with the knowledge and skills that you develop here, they will stay with you and support you throughout your life.

We're excited that you've joined us today to learn more about IU and the transfer experience. I hope that we will see you on campus soon, and I hope that you will see what a special place that IU is, and that this campus is offering you many wonderful opportunities. We can't wait to welcome you as an IU student. So, thank you for your time today, and I'll turn the program back on to our team here.

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Kelly: Thank you, David. We are all excited that you are here joining us today, and I do have a couple polls for our audiences to get a better feel of who is out there. So, I'm gonna go ahead and launch the first question and give everyone a couple of moments to answer that. And that is, where are you coming from today? David had already mentioned that we had a lot of students registered from the different areas, but we also know that sometimes, actually attending is a little bit different. So, we have a strong Midwest presence. That's great. We also seem to have about 13% on the call from the South, and 7 from the west, and 7 tied with the northeast. So we're excited to have you all here, and we can't wait until you get on campus to make our campus even that much more richer with your experiences being a transfer student.

The next poll that I want to share out is, what do you expect to learn today? What are you interested in learning more about? We have a lot of students that may be yet deciding where they want to go for their next institution. And so, we want to know what your most burning questions are. Academic resources and experiences, campus life and culture, housing process and residential hall communities. That's taking a lead right now and then our next steps to enroll as well as credit transfer evaluation. That's the other hot topic. So, thank you for sharing your with us your interest, and hopefully we'll be able to get the answers to you here as we go through our presentation.

So, with that I want to turn it over now to Janai Weeks, our Assistant Director for Transfer Recruitment, and she will be kicking off the panel.

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Janai: Yes, hello, everyone, and thank you so much for joining us on this nice Friday afternoon. I hope it's nice where you are. It's nice where I am. My name is Janai Weeks. I'm the Senior Assistant Director here in the Office of Admissions, and I specialize in transfer recruitment. So, we definitely want to welcome you once again and also congratulations on your admission to IU. That's a super huge, big deal. Go Hoosiers! And so glad that you will be joining us in the fall.

So, I definitely want to explain the purpose of the panel. We just wanna make sure that you get all the information that you need. And on this panel it'd be myself representing Admissions. We'll have student presenters, a faculty member, the representative from our housing and dining services, from our First Year Experience Office, our University Division office, as well as financial aid. So, we definitely have a great session designed to highlight the student experience both in and outside the classroom,

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Expert Panel

• Office of Student Financial Assistance
• Office of First Year Experience Programs (FYE)
• Residential Programs and Services (RPS)
• Academic Advising
• IU Professor]

Janai: as well as provide you some information on your next steps and the important topics as you begin your transition to IU. So, first we will begin with our panelist introductions, and then I will present a number of topics and questions for our panelists to address. Finally, we'll leave plenty of time at the end for your specific questions. We ask that you use that Q&A feature on Zoom to ask those questions. Our colleagues on the back end will be answering those questions as well as they come in. But once we get to the actual Q&A those questions will be answered live by our panelists. So, without further ado, we'd love to have our panelists introduce themselves, and we wanted to start with our faculty member Keith Dayton.

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Keith: Yeah. My name is Keith Dayton. I'm a faculty member at the Kelley School of Business. I'd like to tell you I'm 29 years old. I always get a laugh when I'm live saying that. But I've been on campus for quite a period of time, and I'm truly involved in both the academic and student experience and one disclaimer. One, quick. I rescue dogs, my wife and I, so you may hear some sounds in the background from time to time. So, I'm at home today. So welcome, Hoosiers!

Janai: Thank you so much, Keith. And then our representative from academic advising. Eric.

Eric: Sure. Sorry I wasn't sure which advisory you were going to. So, my name is Eric Beckstrom. I am here kind of talking about advising in general, but I'm here to talk a little bit more specifically to students who are going to be admitted to University Division or the Center for Students in Transition. I'll explain what that means later on. But I also want to add my welcome. It's really great to have you all here. There is a an increasing and very fervent desire on this campus to really welcome transfer students and make you very welcome, and to know that you are a really integral part of this campus. So, I think I probably speak for everyone when I say that if you have any questions at any point now or in the future, please speak up, and we'll help you in any way we can.

Janai: Thank you, Eric. And then from Residential Programs and Services, Denise. You're on mute.

Denise: Sorry about that. I thought I did it, but I didn't, so. I think Jocelyn Maul is also here. We are both representing the housing system, and I work in the Office of Residence Life. Welcome, welcome!

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Jocelyn: And I am Jocelyn Mall. I'm in our housing operations and assignments area, kind of the business side of the housing program on campus.

Janai: And then Office of First Year Experience.

Bailey: Hello! My name is Bailey Moss. I'm the Associate Director for Transfer Initiatives with FYE. So, my role is really to help transfer students specifically coordinate and navigate our New Student Orientation program as well as help coordinate our Welcome Week programs and our Hoosier Experience programs. So, if you have questions about any of that, I’m your girl. Congrats.

Janai: Thank you, Bailey. And then our Office of Student Financial Assistance and financial aid.

Amy: Amy Hull with the Financial Aid office, and I just want to welcome you home. I'm excited that you're going to be part of our Hoosier family. And there are things that probably need to be implemented in terms of making sure your financial aid can be switched over from your previous school to IU Bloomington. So, we'll talk a little bit about that as well. Welcome aboard.

Janai:  Great, and last, but not least, we could have our student leaders.

Jacob: Hi! Everybody! My name is Jacob. I am a—I guess I am a senior now, as of last week, which is crazy to say. But I am from Peoria, Illinois, and I'm studying marketing professional sales and digital and social media business applications.

Ben: Hello, everybody! My name is Ben. I just graduated from undergrad and I'm headed onto graduate school for international studies here at IU, and I'm from Richmond, Indiana. And it's an honor to be with you all today. Congratulations!

Janai: Alright! Alright! Awesome. Thank you, everyone. So, we're gonna go ahead and get started with our questions. So, first I want to ask our current students, why did you choose IU, and tell us more about your college selection process.

Jacob: Sure I can take that one first. So, when I was deciding what school I wanted to go to, I realized that college is kind of the time to grow and mature into the person you want to become in the future, and after visiting IU twice I actually had the privilege of visiting, I remember this was the place for me. The campus is so beautiful. If you guys haven't had a chance to come and visit in person, it is just stunning, especially right now in the summer, with all the bright, beautiful trees. The academics here at IU are incredible. I'm in the Kelley School Business, which is the eighth best business school undergraduate in the nation, which is awesome. Couple, with so many opportunities for students, whether it's clubs or entertainment events, all that stuff they all kind of came together into one and made me realize, yeah, this is the place where I feel like I can become the person I want to become in the future. And at the end of the day I think that's kind of what you're all probably looking for as well. I hope that throughout the day today you get to see IU is that place for you as well, because it certainly was for me.

Ben: Absolutely. I agree with Jacob a lot on that. But my freshman and sophomore year of high school, I wasn't doing very well in my academics. I kind of wrote college off. So, my mother and I got in a car we came to IU. We took a tour, and I not only didn't want to leave, but I wanted to do exactly what the tour guide and the presenter were doing. And look what I'm doing now, telling all of you to come to IU. So, I worked really hard, finally made it to IU, and I graduated top of my class and finishing a masters now. So, IU made all of that possible for me, because of all of the opportunities that came with it, with tutoring and career services that really helped me out as well as study abroad. And that's why I decided to stay at IU as well. So, definitely welcome and all of those opportunities will be there for you too.

Janai: Thank you so much. So, our next question is, for the First Year Experience Programs office. So, the next big step to becoming a Hoosier is the New Student Orientation. So, can you tell us a bit more about the orientation process at IU, including how Welcome Week fits into it all? And then when do transfers need to register for NSO?

Bailey: Absolutely. So, now is the time for transfers to register for NSO. So, New Student Orientation is really—you may feel like you don't need an orientation, because maybe you've done orientation at other campuses. But IU has some pretty unique resources and opportunities that New Student Orientation will help kind of give you that bigger picture of what you're walking into. So, we have some—we've tried to cater the New Student Orientation to transfer students. So, we have a couple of sessions that are specifically for you. So, if you check your email, you should have received like a reservation invitation. Go ahead and register now, because the options for you for transfer students are June 2nd, which is like right around the corner. We have a virtual option for transfer and international students, and that will start on June 20^th. And we have another in person session that is, 100% for transfer students on July 14^th. If absolutely none of those dates work for you, you just have an emergency, or you can't make it. We do have some limited options in August, but it's not going to be catered to the transfer experience. So, if you can make it to any of those other dates, we definitely recommend it. So, NSO you will have a mix of like required sessions, things that like you need to know about finances at IU, housing at IU, academics at IU, right? And then you'll have some optional sessions about life of a student, best places to go in Bloomington off campus, things like that. So, you'll build out that schedule, even if you're in person or not. And the main priority of and is going to be to connect you to that academic advisor and get you registered for classes and make sure that you're comfortable with your next steps as you come into campus, to IU. And Janai, did you ask me about Welcome Week?

Janai: Yes, yes, Welcome Week, yes!

Bailey: Okay. Okay. I thought that was part of the question. So, Welcome Week is kind of like a continuation of New Student Orientation. It is kind of—you get to build out your next experience as you come to IU. We have transfer specific programs that you can attend where you can network, meet other transfer students, kind of connect with people who are having the same kind of experiences as you are. But you are also strongly encouraged to attend as many Welcome Week events as you can. Some of them will be required by your divisions, others will be optional. All of them are going to be awesome. So, definitely check out our IU Mobile events calendar, and start building out the schedule that you want during that first week.

Janai: Thank you so much. It's such a great information. So, our next question is for Residential Programs and Services. Will you share information on the process and timeline for submitting housing and meal plan applications at this point?

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Jocelyn: Yeah. I'd be happy to. So, currently, our housing applications are open and live now. We are currently collecting student applications which include preferences for your neighborhood on campus. Do you want a single, a double or furnished apartment? You also select your meal. Plan on that housing application as well too. So, if you live on campus, that's all rolled into one. That meal plan is available for folks who don't choose to live on campus as well, and those signups usually begin in early June. You can just sign up online.. You can do that at any time, and it's almost instant. So, you can kind of get a feel for the campus if you're off campus and then see if you want to add that meal plan to your experience. As far as the other housing assignment kind of processes. Like I mentioned we're collecting applications now and working to assign our first year students as well as our transfer students that have already applied. You'll work with the application to put preferences and cost in the application. So, we don't want to give students any space that they can't afford. We want to keep it affordable, attainable. So, we'll put you at or below the category you choose. And then we have special kind of areas held out for transfer students and non-first year students. They're coming in with different experiences, maybe one year college under your belt. Some of those experiences you're bringing with you already, and the expectations generally tend to align better if we place you in and around upper class students. But we do have transfer students mingled all across campus in all of our residence centers.

So, after you've applied, we like, I said, go through our application process and placements of students, and you won't really hear from us until early June, when you'll get your building assignment. That'll go to your IU email account. And then once our New Student Orientation sessions have ended, we release our specific room numbers and roommate information. So, that early June and then late July time periods are important for those living on campus.

Janai: Alright! Thank you for that. So, our next question is for our faculty member, Professor Dayton. So, what advice or tips do you have for student success?

Keith: Boy, I have a lot of them, but I want to start by saying that you're not alone and transferring. I was on my way to Indiana University. I ended up in the Marine Corps. Later on I got my AA at a college in Florida. I ended up getting my two BAs actually at Indiana University, and then I went to another school for my MBA and then another one for my doctorate. So, I get the transfer. And I want to tell you, not knowing me, you're in good hands. Do expect, though, that this will be a different process, and the academics here come at a different level, an attainable level, a level where if you choose to succeed you most certainly will, and you can do ultimately what you want to do as you do this. But through that process understand this will be a transition and part of that transition is understanding that Indiana University—and I say this because I've been on most university campuses and colleges around the world—is one of the most welcoming, but, more importantly, one of the most supportive institutions that I've ever been at. So, the key with this is to fully disclose who you are and what you're trying to do, and then to reach out and to get that support that you need, whether it's test taking, whatever it may be. I'm a DSS student, fully disclose that and there's assistance that I needed not so much early, but later, and I took advantage of that, and I was a little reluctant to do it. But once I took advantage of it, it made me feel like the process was a lot more comfortable. That may not be you.

Again, there'll be other challenges. But when you come here the idea is three things: it's academics, it's academics, and academics. You don't have to not go to a baseball game. You don't have to not go to the IU Auditorium. What that means though, is when you come here think of this as a journey into freedom, journey into freedom economically, if nothing else. So, I'll speak from the business school perspective that what you have is an opportunity to create a career that you'll be happy at, and that you choose, not somebody else chooses for you or you feel uncomfortable in it, but you can create your own path. So I'll stop with that. And I think we have got a couple of other questions later, and I can hit some other things. But this is a—view this is an opportunity and view this is an opportunity that again is supported by a range of people you won't even be able to even imagine that can help you get through this process.

Janai: Thank you. Professor Dayton. Those are some great gems.

Keith: Thank you.

Janai: Wow, so great. Alright. So, for our University Division, the Center for Students in Transition, Eric, what are students in transition and University Division? And how are students admitted to their degree-granting program at IU?

Eric: So, some of the people attending here might be directly admitted, and if that's the case, you'll be informed of that. If you aren't directly admitted—most people aren't, and if you're among the people who aren't, then you will land in either University Division or the Center for Students in Transition, as what we often call a pre-major. And you basically spend a little bit of time in either UD or SIT working with one of our advisors who will help you understand exactly what you need to do to be admitted to your program. Most of the time when people aren't directly admitted, it's because they have some additional courses they need to take that are admission prerequisites. I'm not gonna go into detail about who will land in UD or SIT, because that's too much for this kind of session. But you'll get that sort of really robust pre-major advising, and we can also help with a lot of the transfer opportunities and challenges that people have been mentioning. Keith did a really great job of explaining that you're very welcome here, but there is a lot of transition happening you know. It’s a geographical change for some people. It's a cultural change. It's a social change. It's an economic change for a lot of people. And I may say a thing or two more about that later. But part of the advantage of being in University Division or SIT Students in Transition is that we can help you kind of get acclimated to campus.

And so how you are admitted to your degree will kind of vary depending on what the degree is and what the major is, but that's part of what we're here to help you do.

Janai: Thank you so much, Eric, for that. So, for our Financial Aid office, Amy, will a students aod be the same as their last school.

Amy: Well, that's interesting, and it always is a discussion that says it depends on a lot of things. But we encourage you if you haven't yet already done so complete the FAFSA for the next academic year, the 23–24 academic year. Make sure you're putting the IU Bloomington school code on there, which is 0 0 1 8 0 9. That ensures that that financial information about income, household size, and assets of both parents and students comes to IU Bloomington, and then we we are already packaging transfer students. We started in March. So, many of you may already be aware, you might have been notified of your financial aid package already being available for you to view. You can look it up on your phone on one dot I U dot e d u once we package. So, if you're still in that process of kind of getting that transition to the new school in your mind, you want to make sure that you start with the FAFSA.

A couple resources, I want to kind of just share with you is that if you had already received a Pell Grant and your financial situation stays very much the same, then that's federal aid that you would still be eligible for here, whether you're an in-state or out-of-state student. If you're an in-state student, there's other state aid eligibility that if you were a 21^st Century Scholar at your other school that becomes a program that follows you and helps you pay for tuition and fees. If you had received the state O’Bannon grant, things like that are state awards that that follow you. I want you to kind of bookmark a couple of resources if you haven't already visited. The scholarships dot Indiana dot e d u, that is a place for you to always be on the lookout for that additional gift money. There are opportunities—now I will say at this point, we're late in the season, and most of the awarding has already been identified and happened for students for the next academic year. But we encourage you to be reviewing and kind of searching for scholarships every year in your academic career, whether you're an undergraduate or a graduate as well. And that website that I gave you is really your ideal portal for you to go and investigate scholarships and gift money for down the road. Maybe the next year, and things like that. Programs that advertise from all over the nation foundations will advertise their scholarships. So, you never know what you might be eligible to apply for. So, I highly encourage that. Another research to bookmark is in your one dot IU dot e d u portal is going to the general scholarships application every year. That will open up about October, and that again will be a scholarship for the next academic year. So, it's just a resource coming in as a transfer student I don't want you to kind of miss that. So, that's an important scholarship. So do their FAFSA, search for scholarships, and then those kind of resources will be available. And then my last resource to kind of promote is money smarts dot I U dot e d u, and on their program or resources it's just to help you get smart with your money. And this will give you an opportunity to crunch your numbers and understand what your budget is. That calculator is kind of an in an improvement zone right now. So, once it gets launched with the new format, it'll be even better for you to kind of say, how do I plan my student budget. And that'll help you to make IU affordable and plan for your college expenses.

Janai: Thank you so much, Amy. That was great. Great information. Lots of great tips as well. I do want to kick it back over to our student leaders here. So, what is it like living in the residence halls and in the city of Bloomington, and also if applicable, can you expound on your off campus housing experience?

Jacob: Sure, so I'll start off with the residence halls. I will say my residence hall experience was probably unlike anybody else's, at least for the year I came in during 2020, which was obviously the year of COVID, so we were pretty much bound to our residence halls for a majority of the time, which actually made it a lot of fun. All of my best friends, all of my roommates from this year, next year as well, all ended up being on my residence hall floor my freshman year, which was super awesome. I lived in the Jellison Living Learning Center, which is the Kelley Living Learning Center. It was about 700 freshmen, we were all in the business school, and we were all taking the exact same classes, which was awesome. I could go and knock on any one of my neighbors’ doors and get help with academic work in the dorm and then I also had peer tutors, living on my floor who were certified in those classes. So, I cannot speak more highly of my residence hall experience. I had a lot of fun with that. And then off-campus, I would say majority of students tend to live off campus after their freshman year. So, currently this past school year, I lived in a house in just south of campus, which was an awesome opportunity as well. There's also tons of apartment style living for students to take advantage of there and overall housing options in Bloomington are very plentiful, and it's been a positive experience so far.

Ben: I moved in in 2019 and into Teter, which had just been renovated, which is wonderful and made a lot of great friends like Jacob was saying, especially those first few weeks. Everybody's doors are open, and nobody knows each other, so you're getting to know one another and make your first friends. And that's a really great way to do it. I was also very close to a dining hall, which made it very easy. And all of the dining halls that I went to—I didn't make it to all of them my freshman year—but the ones that I was around were really good options. I came into college expecting it would be like high school lunches, and they were a lot better than that. So I was very thankful. But moving off campus there were a lot of options, and I remember in the fall semester of freshman year there was a lot of people like pressuring you to get an apartment right away and you really don't have to. You really do have time to look in Bloomington and see what you want, and there's a lot of apartments or houses that you can move into with other roommates and a lot of people are also looking for a similar situation. So, the more roommates you have, the cheaper your rents going to be, and Bloomington’s really great with that.

Janai: Yeah. Awesome. Thank you. So, for our First Year Experience office. So, the first year experience. It does imply that there's a yearlong process of becoming a Hoosier. So how will students and families continue to interact with FYE throughout the first year?

Bailey: That's a great question. So yeah, we do offer services specifically for students who are coming into IU. So not just freshman students, but anyone who is new to IU for that first year we offer a lot of contact with you. If I had to give you some advice, please check your email. Check it all the time, check it every day, because that is how everyone at IU is going to contact you. That's our official mode of communication. But also you'll receive a lot of information about NSO and Welcome Week and beyond specifically from the First Year Experience office. So, we have several programs to keep you kind of in the know about what to expect throughout the year. One way that we do that is through our monthly newsletters for students. They are actually bi-weekly, so every 2 weeks you'll get some info from us about what to expect, what's coming up. And we try to tailor those to the experiences that we know students might be having during that time. So, moving in is kind of stressful. Midterms might be stressful. We give you as many tips and tricks as we possibly can to try to help you make that transition as easy as possible. We also have something called the Hoosier Experience Program, which is a program where you can earn a certificate of engagement after you attend so many events and track those events. So, we want you to have a holistic experience at IU and maybe get out of your comfort zone a little bit while still interacting with activities that you know you love and enjoy. So, we create programs for all incoming students, including transfer students and when you learn how to track them, which we’ll go into details on NSO,  that's one way that you can earn incentives along the way as well as kind of set yourself apart from peers by earning that certificate of engagement.

Real quick though I did have a question in the chat about would the New Student Orientation email already been sent out. If you haven't received an email from First Year Experience or from us about your NSO reservation, make sure that you submitted an intent to enroll, because those won't go out until you turn that in. So if you're still waiting on it, or you don't know where that is, make sure you've completed that intent. If you have completed your intent, and you're positive of that, please do contact FYE directly, and we’ll help you troubleshoot.

Janai: Thank you so much, Bailey. Alright. So, for our Residential Programs and Services. What is the difference between upperclassmen housing and freshman housing?

Jocelyn: Yeah, good, question. We actually have, as I mentioned, transfers and upper-class students sprinkled throughout all of campus. So there a lot of times are leadership positions on campus, student governments that get involved there, they might be our resident advisors on floors, and so we've got students of all ages throughout. We do anticipate being a little tight on space this year, as another one of our buildings will be getting some renovations done. But we do have spaces held for transfer students. We've got a partial floor in the Central neighborhood that involves single rooms. So, a good blend of having a floor community, but also the little privacy of having a single room too, so that good blend that our transfer students do seem to enjoy. A lot of our transfer student housing is in suite style or apartment style, so know that those can be a little bit more expensive, so be sure you're paying attention to the costs of our housing, and I can drop our costs website in the chat as well so you can explore what those costs might be. So, as Amy helps you plan to for how much money you're gonna need those are great to know. Those are listed for the academic years that covers you from August into May. So about 10 months or so of housing. Those are important to know.

So, generally a suite style might be two singles that share bathroom in between, or a four bedroom apartment. We do our housing contracts by the bedroom. So, if I'm in bedroom one, I have three other roommates, and they have their own individual contracts. So, as you're looking on campus or off, be sure you're paying attention to if you're signing up for just one bedroom and that the apartment complex might provide those other three or if you're signing for that whole apartment and you're responsible for the full cost. So, something to pay attention to as you're looking through those leases and housing contracts available to you. But the communities, you'll see, are very similar. So, as I mentioned, the suite styles or singles are very popular with our transfer students, because you have that more autonomy of being by yourself, but still the strong floor community around you.

Janai: Thank you so much. Jocelyn. So, for Professor Dayton, our faculty member, can you tell us more about office hours and ways students can get help?

Keith: I will make sure I'm off mute. So, yeah, there are several ways, and I think it’s always beig engaged. Look for office hours, look for review sessions, look for tutoring. It's not unusual to feel uncomfortable to talk to a faculty member, but you may not have a faculty member that's teaching you. It may be a GA, which is a graduate assistant, but you have to take advantage of that, and you have to take advantage of that for multiple reasons. One, these are the individuals that actually provide a grade for you in the classroom. And I do measure engagement. And I want to make sure the individuals that are coming to class, the individuals are coming to see me, I think benefit from that, not only from the standpoint where you may learn more, but the benefit is also that you know when I consider grades I look at engagement as you go forward. Now, I don't have office hours, so this is always on unusual question for me. Most faculty are required to have office hours. When I say I don't have office hours, I meet with students when they want to meet, not all faculty are like that. But there are a lot of gracious faculty that will give you the opportunity to set some time for you to do that. The other thing is always what do I ask a faculty member? Okay, well, how do I answer with that individual, okay? I'm kind of scared. Oh, I don't know. I may ask a stupid question. Well, you hear this all the time. There are no stupid questions, there really aren't, so avail yourself of going And honestly, the best step that I always give students, if you don't know what to say, go in and ask them about their research, and they won't stop talking to you for about two hours, okay. So there are ways to leverage that opening with the faculty member. But take advantage of that, and even if you need to just ease into that, one of the things to do is go to a review session when the faculty member is leading, whether it's online or in person, and then also introduce yourself and at the start of a class, or, you know, at the end, whenever you feel comfortable doing that. But you have to take that opportunity again, students that take that opportunity, I have noticed— and I've taught over 50,000 students here in Indiana University— that those are the ones that feel more comfortable, feel like they have more of an opportunity to get engaged and will get engaged, and actually they do better. So yeah, there you go office hours 101!

Janai: Thank you for that, Professor Dayton. Our next question is for Eric in our University Division and Center for Students in Transition. Is there room for being exploratory and how soon do students need to choose their degree and major?

Eric: That is a really good and common question, and the answer is, it depends. So, depending on how many credits the student is bringing in and what your credits consist of and what your degree and major is, there may be room for exploring. Exploring through classes—most people coming in know what their degree and major is going to be when they're transferring in, so one way to explore is if you have room for elective credit or if you still have some general education classes to take, that's a really rich area of exploration. You may have opportunities to take classes that are literally not offered anywhere else. On the other hand, if you are coming in with more credit hours and you don't have that sort of flexibility, then talk with your academic advisor about where in the given program and degree there might be a little bit of room for at least exploring within that realm. What was the other part of your—the last part of that question?

Janai: So, the last part of the question was, how soon do students need to choose their degree and major?

Eric: Right. And so that also depends in the same way that I was just describing. But, to be perfectly honest in the interest of transparency, as soon as possible without rushing in a way where you're not making an informed decision. And this is not the case with a first-year student who's coming in with very little credit. If somebody's coming in, and they've got 9 credits of dual credit, they've got some time to make that decision. But for transfer students, since most people are trying to graduate in the most efficient way as possible, the truth of the matter is, you want to choose your degree or major as soon as you can. But you can also do that in an informed way, and one of the ways to do that is to talk with your advisor especially in University Division and the Center for Students in Transition. And one of the things that we do is work with exploratory students. And so, whether you are 99% sure or 0%, sure, we can talk with you about your interests and help you kind of get to 100% sure. If you are 100% sure, it can't hurt to have that conversation, just to make sure that the path that you're on is the best fit. I mean, depending on how you slice it there are anywhere from 180 to 300 majors at IU Bloomington, and so have those conversations.

And I guess I'll take this opportunity because it relates to the idea of exploring. When Keith was talking I found myself nodding my head a lot, because other ways to explore are everything that Keith was describing. So, this way of being engaged in your undergraduate degree and making it not just a checklist of requirements. I mean, we have a tendency to hand students checklists of requirements in one way, shape, or form, and that's really important for staying on track, but it's really only a fraction of the purpose of your undergraduate experience. And I don't want to get too much on my soapbox here, but one of the things that I'm always telling students, and I think this is particularly important for transfer students, is that what you do in between and outside of classes and even off-campus is quite literally at least as important as what's happening in the classroom. That's how you can explore. So go off campus, and if you like standup comedy, go to The Comedy Attic. We haven't nationally ranked standup comedy club in downtown Bloomington. IU Cinema. I mean, I can't even begin to tell you the number of filmmakers and actors that I've met or been able to ask questions at IU cinema. These are ways to explore outside of your degree and all of that also leads to this notion of getting connected with campus. And one of the most common questions that we get is, how can I get connected? And one of the most common pieces of advice that we hear from transfer students is get connected as soon as you can. When you arrive on campus, because forming your support network, both with instructors and advisors, but also your peers, is just easily the most common thing that we hear from transfer students when we ask them what advice would you give other transfer students. It's get connected as soon as you can and maybe there'll be an opportunity to talk a little bit more about that later on.

Janai: Thank you, Eric. So, for financial aid. Amy, how does being a part-time student effect a student's financial aid? So going from maybe you were a part time student in community college going from now being a full-time student in a 4-year. How does that impact? Could that possibly impact a student's financial aid basically?

Amy: Sure. So, I think that's a really good question with this audience because if you're coming from part-time and you're going full-time, we at IU have what's called the flat rate tuition charges. So, you are eligible to take courses through the fall, winter intersessions, and spring—so the academic year—at one price. So, if you're an in-state student or out-of-state student, it would be from full-time, which is 12 credit hours for each semester all the way up to a total of 40 credit hours for the academic year. And really if you can handle that academic load with more classes, it allows you to work with your advisor to find how do I get those extra courses that I'm gonna want to be able to get minors or double majors or things like that? So, it really is an opportunity to get a bigger bang for your buck. However, I always advise students first to do what you know you’re going to be academically successful in. Don't just take lots of classes, and then you're not doing well and you have to drop classes and all that kind of stuff. But the flat rate tuition does give you that kind of comfort level to say I can add another class and it's going to be at the same price. It's not going to be cost me more. If you are a part-time student, which is under that 12 credit hours per semester, the charges are based on a per credit hour, and the budget kind of get set up in that same standpoint as well. Som you have to be 6 hours or more to have eligibility for even your federal loans. So, if you are taking, maybe just one class, you wouldn't necessarily have a full budget because it's more like you're adding a class. But if you're coming here to work as a part-time student at 6 hours or more as a undergraduate student, then you'll have a budget that will allow for housing, transportation, and then you'll only get charged tuition fees based on that quantity of hours you have below. So, it does kind of throw a mix in it, depending upon what you're used to and what you're looking for, but if you can take advantage of that flat rate tuition, it does become kind of helpful to you if you're doing any kind of a catch up if you're still trying to get done in 4 years, and you're trying to make sure you've got all the credit hours that are going to be required for your degree plan. This gives you that little edge to be able to say I can get it done in 3 years, and things like that.

Janai: Thank you so much. Alright! So, we are going to here after a few more questions I'll ask, we're gonna shift gears into our Q&A. So if you have questions, go ahead and start getting those typed in to the Q&A box, and then we can just make a smooth transition after we hear from our panelists a few more times. So, we're gonna swing it back to our students. So what advice—well, two-parter, okay. So, what is your favorite thing about IU? And then what advice would you give a new student on getting involved in making connections?

Jacob: I mean I don't even know where to begin when to discuss my favorite thing about IU. I guess the fact that there are an unfathomable amount of opportunities for the students here would be my favorite thing literally. Anything you can think of that you want to do. You can make it your own. So, we have over 750 different clubs and organizations here at IU. I always like to say you can never make a small school feel big, but you can always make a big school feel small, and those clubs and organizations are the way that you do that. So, taking part in those clubs and organizations, making your IU experience your own, meeting new people, going to the culture centers and learning new things, getting out of your shell. All that stuff is really what makes IU truly special. At the end of the day that would probably be my favorite thing about IU. And then kind of going off that, as far as advice goes, college in general, and especially IU your IU experience is all about what you make of it. So, if you want to sit in your dorm room all day and do nothing, you can do that. But if you want to go down to the Student Involvement Fair and meet tons of new people and join those clubs and go to world-class entertainment events and go study abroad, and all that stuff you can also do that. My advice is to take full advantages of the resources that are provided to you, because there are so many ways to get involved. Every week you'll get tons of emails being like, Hey, come out to this club, come check out this event, all this stuff. Take advantage of that. Now I'm going into my senior year, coming up here, and I'm sitting here wondering where the time went, and you will never regret doing more and more, but you may regret not having done much. So, just take advantage of all that IU offers you, because 4 years will go by like that, and you'll be wondering where the time went. So.

Janai: Awesome.

Ben: I would say my favorite thing would be the culture of IU. Just how we interact with each other, that Hoosier hospitality that the world talks about, it's definitely on our campus of being kind and caring to one another. Especially professors when I needed help with papers, or just some more explanation or just research ideas, they're not just there to teach me in the class. They've been very helpful outside of the class. The Counseling and Psychological Services as well on campus known as CAPS is also there. Not just as you know, if you need help, but we really kind of take that, I guess same culture of caring for not just physical but mental health around campus. And I really appreciate that. But what Jacob was talking about, all the opportunities. Very true. There's a lot of ways to get involved. I recommend when you get here to listen to others when they're talking about clubs and organizations and their first meetings of the year, kind of intros, and go to those and get to know those folks. And if it’s not for you, that's fine, because there's hundreds of others that you can try. Literally. And I recommend doing that. Also, those events, the welcoming meetings, usually have free food too. So that's a good reason to go as well.

Janai: Awesome. Thank you so much for that. For Bailey and our First Year Experience office. What are ways that students can stay connected, to prepare to feel ready for their first year at IU between now and the fall?

Bailey: Awesome question. So first check your email. I think I'm gonna tell you that over and over again, can't stress it enough, especially right now as you're preparing for that transition. We will, FYE will, specifically communicate about step by step what we need from you between now and then. Between now and NSO and beyond, but specifically, after you submit your intent to enroll. But then, if you haven't already joined the Hoosier Network, definitely join that. We are about to open a community just for transfer students that will have information specific to the transfer experience: what to expect and who to go to for questions and hear from other students who have had that transfer experience. So, you can ask questions and get quick answers as well as some quick information. So, Hoosier Network, if you're note familiar, is like a social media site. It's kind of like Reddit. It's kind of like Facebook used to be or was before it stopped being cool. But we have a lot of information and threads that you can kind of go through, and then you can also direct message. So you can direct message me or other students. You can find roommates. You can find friends. You can find information. So, if you're not on it, maybe you've lost the link to it, will be sending out invitations for all students, all incoming students within the next couple of weeks. So be on the lookout for that email. And then also I do encourage you to read those newsletters. I think sometimes we think of newsletters and maybe we it might be one of the emails that we just like click off of or don’t open. Definitely check that out. Take that time. Just a couple of minute read, and you'll get a lot of information about deadlines coming up, what to expect. So don't miss out on that information, because you will definitely be one of the students who are like, I never got this, or I never heard about this. But we're sending it to you every two weeks. So, open those emails.

Janai: Alright. Thank you so much. I see we are getting some questions rolling in. So, that's exciting. Keep sending in those questions to our Q&A file there. So, next we're gonna hear from our Residential Programs and Services. So, can you provide more information for on-campus apartments and how to apply for those. Is it different from applying for housing for furnished apartments? Can you explain that just a little bit.

Jocelyn: Yeah, good question. So, unfortunately, our unfurnished apartments are all full. Our returners snatch those up. So those are apartments like you'd walk into off-campus, don't have furniture. But we do have furnished apartments still available. We've got them mainly in Union Street Center, which was built in about 10 years ago now. And so we have 2 and 4 bedroom apartments there. And then I also talked a little bit about the suite style that have usually 2 single rooms, and then a bathroom in between. So, you apply for those furnished apartments the same way. You can select furnished apartment as one of your room type choices, and then you rank that. And so, if that's really what you want to do, either put that all the way at the top, or if you want to put an area of campus above the room type, that's fine, too. Most of our apartments are a little higher cost, just because you have more amenities. Some of them have water and dryer included in the unit, some have a washer dryer down the hall, so those are gonna vary a little different in cost, but they are going to be more expensive than the standard double room where you're walking down the hallway to shower. So, do you have that in mind, and you want to put enhanced costs. So, we have a 2 tier system: enhanced cost and then our standard cost is going to be a little lower. So, be sure you're putting the enhanced cost if you really want that apartment. That lets us know, Yep, I'm willing to pay for kind of those different amenities, the in-unit laundry, those in unit bathrooms, those sorts of things, too. But it's the same application and you note that as a preference.

You can come in with a roommate as well. Just know that once you submit your application at this point you can't make any changes. So, if you know you've got a roommate in the wings, wait until you're solidified, and then go ahead and submit that application for us.

Janai: Thank you so much. It's very helpful information. Professor Dayton, will you discuss some faculty and academic expectations that you may have for your students?

Keith: My expectations are broad. Again, we talked a little bit about engagement and coming to class. It is preparation. It is preparation, not just for the material that’s at hand, but it's beyond that. It's doing a deeper dive in the research that drives the theory that we may present in class. So, come intellectually thirsty. But the other thing that I think is important for me is to make sure that you— a couple things. One is to strike a balance and I don't want you coming to class if you used to cook now, you don't, because you're so focused on academics, and you're so focused on all the other things that are going around with you that you're not still cooking your own meal. You're not working out. You're not doing the kinds of things that you need to do. The other is time. Time will be the greater challenge, probably the greatest challenge that you'll have as you go through years. For years and years I worked with the MBA program. I actually managed the first-year core for years, and I'd always ask students, Well, what did you learn? And you think that they're going to talk to you about finance or accounting or operations, they talk to you about time. So, time is gonna be something that you’ve got to manage. The other is, don't be afraid of ambiguity and don't be afraid of creativity, and then don't be afraid to fail. There's no better opportunity to do and be who you are and what you can be than to learn hard lessons. And that's tough because you will be pushed in lots of different ways. It doesn't matter what college campus you're on. You need to come in with a level of preparation and engagement again. Expertise which you'll gain. But open your mind to maybe new strategies, open your mind to maybe a newer way to look at a problem and solve it. So, those are the kinds of things that I would think about. And I just think it makes for me in the classroom a more well-rounded student that looks out beyond the classroom, looks forward in their own career, their own personal life, and looks around the world.

And then, lastly, I think we're gonna probably talk about this later is go abroad. Go do things outside the campus that are gonna benefit you. And Indiana University provides those. So, the expectations are high, all faculty are gonna want you to read their syllabus. So, make sure you do that. Make sure that you understand that that's basically a contract between you and what needs to get done in the class and get those things done as you approach it. There you go!

Janai: Thank you so much. Alright. Our next question is for Eric, with our Center for Students in Transition and University Division. So, how do undistributed credits apply to my degree? And can non transferrable or undistributed credits be applied? If so, how?

Eric: Well, you're gonna see couple of things on your transcript. One might be a class that clearly comes in as a specific IU Bloomington course, another might be NTRN, which means it doesn't transfer as anything. Nobody wants to see that, but it happens. Thirdly, if you see something that says UN, it means undistributed, and that means that comes into a specific IU Bloomington school or department, and that kind of credit may be able to count as elective credit toward graduation. And it kind of gets back to what I was saying before at the very beginning about it kind of depends on how much room you have for elective credit. To be perfectly honest sometimes UN or undistributed credit works beautifully, and slots right into a chunk of elective credit that a student has sort of waiting for them, and other times it just doesn't. And part of this process of making a decision to transfer involves looking at what requirements you fulfilled, and whether you have enough flexibility transferring to justify the transfer. Now you all are admitted into IU Bloomington, and most of you are already committed, and you're gonna come no matter what. But if you're still kind of in the process of making a decision, you can take a second look at what's going to transfer in ways that will of those specific requirements. And you know it's the kind of conversation that can also happen of course once you land here and you're enrolled in your first semester. But the extent that you can figure some of this out ahead of time, it's gonna obviously help make your transition more transparent. So, in the interest of transparency, sometimes UN or undistributed credit will count towards, and sometimes it won't. It just sort of depends on how much room you have. I think that covers that. Did you ask another part of that? Or was that the full question?

Janai: I think he might have combined them so the other half of it is can a non transferable or undistributed credits be applied, if so, how are they applied? Did you already answer that?

Eric: Right.

Janai: Okay.

Eric:  Yeah, and I guess since I'm sitting here, and I have the microphone, I'll again underscore everything that Keith was saying. And really I would also say just adding to that that part of the savvy that you're developing as you go through this process, transfer students have additional savvy I think before, during and after their transfer, because they're having to go through all these different transitions. And you learn to be adaptable. And so, as you're coming into IU Bloomington, we want you to absolutely leverage your past experience and sort of worldliness and the skills whether that's time management or some other set of skills, but then be ready to adapt. And I think that's one of the core themes that you're sort of hearing either overtly or covertly today is be ready to adapt.

And I also just wanted to get a word in here with respect to everybody's talking about, engage, engage, engage, and talk to people. And I want to acknowledge that one in four people is more reserved or a more introverted person. And so that kind of engagement can be really challenging sometimes, if you're not used to doing that, and so follow the advice that you're hearing here about maybe getting a little bit outside of your comfort zone. If you haven't formed the habit of talking with your instructors in office hours or meeting with your advisor, using career services, this is a really good opportunity to reset some of your habits and kind of start fresh and form new habits, and getting out of your comfort zone is a really good way to start doing that. And access to all these people that we keep talking about, not to put too fine a point on it, but it's literally included in the cost of tuition. It's part of what you're paying for. So, I don't want to boil this down to just getting your money's worth, but it's part of getting your money's worth. And you have a right to advocate for yourself. Tell people you're a transfer student and that you're new to campus. What's your favorite restaurant in Bloomington? I’ve only been here for 4 weeks. It does not have to be some sort of serious series of questions that that you're asking and you might make somebody else's day, because if you're talking with the students sitting next to you in class maybe nobody has said Hi to them in a couple of days. So, it's also a way for you to be engaged where you can offer what you are bringing to IU Bloomington. And all of that sort of synergy that happens is again this additional dimension that really makes your undergraduate experience an experience and not just a degree.

Janai: Yeah, that's awesome. And I love how detailed you are, Eric. I wanted to piggyback and ask you a follow-up to that. Can you explain the importance of maybe a student keeping their syllabus for possible review of credit and things like that? How that process goes?

Eric: This is a little complicated and I think the question sort of relates to if I'm coming in and it doesn't look like I'm gonna get credit for something, or if it looks like it's undistributed. If you can retain your syllabi from past classes, once in a while, you can go through a process of appealing through a department to see if you know it looks like Class X that I have on my transcript it’s coming in as undistributed or as no credit might actually be really, really similar to this other cost that I see. And you don't always need to present a syllabus in that situation. So, I guess to keep this part simple, I would just say, hang on to the syllabus from your past classes. Don't just have a link, download it, keep it in a file. You may never need it. But it's a good pricing to get in the habit of doing, and same thing here at IU Bloomington, download the syllabus and tuck it away in case you need it for future reference.

Janai: Thank you for that. We're gonna kinda mix it up here. I wanted to ask Amy with our Financial Aid department. Can you just tell us a little bit more about on-campus student employment opportunities.

Amy: Sure. I'm excited that I can talk about it because student employment is one way to look at using your time wisely, because many students that work also figure out kind of the magic of time management. So, it's a skill that you take into your future self a long way. But it's an opportunity to make a little cash if you're looking at the cost of attendance, and you see personal expenses, and maybe your books, it's a way to make those funds on a biweekly basis based on the hours that you work, but you're not necessarily having to look at all that and say, Gosh, I've got to borrow that much more. So, if I make $3,000 a year, that's $3,000 I didn't borrow, and ultimately that's $12,000 I didn't borrow at the end of 4 years. So, I highly promote student employment. A resource for you to go to is at the Career Development Center and type in their search bar student employment and you will be introduced to all of the ways you can apply for jobs on campus. And I was in a meeting just this week and our large employers, like the Rec Center, and I know RPS and dining, they start hiring early. So, you can also be connecting with those employers now, or probably at least in July, and actually do some virtual interviews, and maybe be ready to come on campus, and already have a job in your back pocket. I have found even my daughter's experience. That was the way she made her first community was  all the friends that she ended up making and working with all the friends that she ended up making and working with. So, it's another way to make that big campus smaller and really gain on some of the skills that you're not seeing on the academic side. And you're working with such a variety of people all over campus that that's a skill you take again in your life going forward. So, student employment, I highly recommend it. If you had federal work study at your other institution, we normally don't automatically package work study. But if you still have financial need after we've evaluated all your aid, then if you're talking to an employer you can say I I might be available for federal work study, and they can contact our office and find out if you have financial need to be able to award that. We want to spend that federal dollars and those federal dollars we want to help support students. And if students are making a little bit of cash flow that's helping them borrow less in the long run. So, focus on student employment. We have got employers on-campus as well as employers off-campus, and some of our community service programs as well. So, we also, the Career Development Center puts on a job fair the Friday before school starts. So, during Welcome Week. So, when you're getting settled in head over to the Union and go to the Jobs Fair, if you haven't investigated any employment yet, and you can shake hands with all those employers and get yourself a part-time job. Again, we want to encourage you to use your time wisely. We like to tell students if you're working 10 to 15 hours, you're probably in a very good shape per week to still fit all the academic, the study groups, the office hours, and the activities that you want to join to be involved. And it's a nice way to kind of fit it all together. Good luck. Thank you.

Janai: Thank you so much, Amy. So, we're going to transition over to you all's questions. I see them coming in plenty here, and keep on sending those questions in so we can get them answered. So, the first one is that, is there any way to check the availability of housing on-campus.

Jocelyn: I'll take that one. So, we don't unfortunately have anything in real time, or where you can see what's available. But what helps us is to complete that housing application and contract. It is a legally binding contract, and you're committing to live with RPS for that next year. So know that before you go in. So really, in that application and contract, you let us know the parameters for costs, your preferences for area of campus, and then we take what you're requesting and find the best spot available for you based off of what we still have available. And so, as you navigate the areas of campus, the costs you have, let us know your parameters, and then we'll work to find what's best for you. It's a moving target all the time as we have students kind of realize they're going to come to IU or maybe their plans change. So, we have spaces open up every day. And so when we get to the next student’s application, it varies a little bit of what we have. But giving us those parameters on what you're willing to pay what you're willing to look at room type wise do you want a roommate do you not, that helps us then find the best spot available for you.

Janai: Thank you. And then where does my daughter find out what classes she is going to get credit for?

Eric: I can take that. So, if your daughter is transferring from outside of the IU system, then the Credit Transfer Service website is a really good resource. If you were to do a web search for IUB CTS, or maybe somebody can pop it into the chat. You can look up how things are going to transfer. Not everything is in there, because, of course, there are thousands and thousands of schools. But if somebody has ever tried to transfer a class from the given school, it's gonna be in there. And if you are coming from an IU campus which maybe some people here are, then you can actually do a what if degree audit. I'm not gonna go into the details of that. But if you are coming from another IU campus and go to one dot I U dot e d u, you can type in what if? And then you can actually bring up a report that sort of makes the system pretend that you're already in that major. But for people not transferring from within the IU system, Credit Transfer Service is the best place to start.

Janai: Thank you.

Kelly: I'm gonna hop in there and add a little bit to that. This is Kelly, by the way. So admitted students can also go into the one dot IU dot e d u portal, and then log into that, and then search, transfer credit, and you will get a very similar to the Credit Transfer Service, and how it's laid out that you can see the courses that you took and then the courses that you're getting transfer credit for. So, that is within your one dot IU dot e d u portal, searching transfer credit.

Janai: Awesome. Thank you. A follow-up question to that is, do the credits that transfer show up on my daughter's IU transcript with grades?

Eric: Kelly, if I get any of this wrong, say the word. The grades in some way, shape or form, are there, but the grades themselves are not part of your IU GPA. So, you'll have one GPA from the previous institution and then another GPA from Indiana University, and so you may not actually have an IU GPA yet. If you're coming from another IU campus, then you already have an IU GPA. But the grades themselves from schools from outside of the Indiana University system, again they’re there, but they're not a part of the IU GPA.

Janai: Awesome. Thank you. Another question that was asked and maybe we can just answer this one out loud. Is our meal plans required for on-campus students?

Jocelyn: They are required for our first year on campus students, but not for our transfer students. You will select a meal plan on your housing application, but you don't need to keep it if you don't want it. I'd encourage you to give it a shot. You could always cancel it after one semester, or maybe the opposite, maybe don't sign up until you know you might need it. So, it's super flexible. You can literally be on your phone, purchase your meal plan, and then walk right into the dining hall. So, no need to kind of wait for a systems to click over things to be paid. It's very easy to sign up if you realize you need it. There's a lot of different varieties of options available to our transfer and upper-class students that are more flexible. So, there's smaller meal plans. So, if you do have an apartment, but still want to eat lunches on campus, there's ways to do that. And so those are available to you on our website, which I can include as well.

Janai: And then the other question is, what does efficiency housing mean? And is it the same as standard without A/C, or does it refer to standard with A/C?

Jocelyn: So, I'm excited to say that next year we'll be our first year where all of our residence halls have air conditioning. So, we are actually—that one's going under renovation and air conditioning is going to be added to Wright Quad. It's in the heart of campus, right by the library, so real excited for that building to get a little attention. So all of our spaces have air conditioning on-campus so that low cost has kind of absorbed a little bit. The efficiency apartments are some of our non-furnished departments, so it's a fancy word for a studio. So, your bedroom’ss right there by your kitchen, right? And so, if you imagine a residence hall room just kind of beefed up. And so, just a few of those in our Third and Union apartments. So those, unfortunately, are full. Those are actually a really popular space for some of our graduate students. Our graduate students snatched those up. But we do, as I mentioned, have a furnished apartments still available. If you're looking for a lower cost apartment, I would check out our Mason Hall apartments. Those are within the Wilkie complex. And so those are—it's a little bit more crowded than in your one person apartment, but there's actually 6 students and there's 3 bedrooms. So, you have essentially a double room that is part of a larger apartment, and so higher roommate counts, so a little lower price and so the less roommates you have usually the more money you're gonna pay. So, that's kind of a give and take depending on what your financial need might be. Our unfurnished apartments, as I mentioned, do fill up pretty quickly. They do have a wait list that if you want to get on, but I would encourage you if that's really what you're looking for, you might want to look off-campus. So, the wait list isn't moving very fast as we're excited to welcome our students to continue back in RPS spaces.

Janai: Thank you so much. Our next question is, how do we transfer credits to IU from our previous college? Will it transfer within sending transcripts?

Kelly: So, I'll take this one. So yeah, once you send your previous college transcript, we will need the final transcripts, so, if you were enrolled this past spring, but you were admitted earlier we will still need that spring transcript. And so you need to send it to the I U B L R e cv at Indiana dot e d u address. It’s the same at one that you sent your transcripts to when you applied to us, and then we will articulate those credits and put them on your account, so that you can see how they transferred to IU. And when I say your accounts that's that one dot I U dot e d u and searching transfer credit.

Janai: Alright great. Our next question. Let's see here. So, would you be able to highlight some unique resources available to students in residence halls that are not commonly available? This is for you Jocelyn.

Jocelyn: Yeah, I can take it. And then I might have Denise chime in, too, as the residential life side. So, I do know that our residence halls have lots of great public areas, lounge spaces. You see a lot of game rooms for pool tables, ping pong, and then even some sort of specialty amenities, such as music practice rooms. We even have some baby grand pianos on campus that our students can play in addition to classrooms and collaboration space. And so, a lot of those public areas are specifically designed for some of those uses, too. So, Denise, do you wanna chime in on anything else there, too?

Denise: Absolutely. We’re one of two campuses in the country that have residential-based libraries. So, it's a free resource to students. It's books or video games or equipment. So, it's both a recreational checkout space for the collection. It's a good place to study. There are lots of different kinds of study spaces within the residence halls. Free to all students are our Academic Support Centers. There’s one in each of our residential neighborhoods. So, if you need some help with math or writing, that's a great place to go. That's also where University Division academic advisors in the residence halls are located. So, we have a wide array of different both recreational and social space and ways to study and work collaboratively together. So, I hope that helps. And we have computer labs in all the residence halls as well. So, if you need a quick computer, or print off a document or a paper or something, that's pretty accessible as well.

Eric: And just I know we're at the last second here. But just to sort of add to that is, I don't think we've mentioned the culture centers yet. There are 7 or 8 different culture centers on the campus that are also really good gathering places. So, the LGBTQ+ Culture Center, the Neal-Marshall Black Culture Center, the Jewish Culture Center, La Casa. So on and so forth. So, whether you come from one of those backgrounds, one or more of those backgrounds, or are just curious, they're open to the public. They're really, really good resources. And it's another good example of something that is a little bit unusual that you find more on larger campuses like this, and really encourage you to use that as a way to make more of those connections that we keep talking about.

Janai: Alrighty! So we have one more question before we break here that just came in. So, my child is currently a pre-business major, but is now interested in advertising program in the college of Media. How easy is it for her to change to the new program?

Eric: It's incredibly easy. And so right now, if your daughter is certain about that, then she could let the Office of First Year Experience know or could even contact the OVPUE Records Office. So, it's probably easiest since the terminology, is already familiar to just connect with the Office of First Year Experience and they can facilitate getting the major changed even before New Student Orientation. But the admission standards for and the process for the media advertising major is very, very different from business, and it's even possible that your daughter may be able to be directly admitted into that particular degree.

Janai: Alright, thank you. Well, that does conclude our full panel session. So, at this time I will — oh, and you're welcome! You're welcome. I will pass it on to Kelly to continue with our program.

Kelly: Thank you. Janai. And thank you to all of our panelists. We do appreciate your time to help our future Hoosiers discover IU a little bit more, or help them make their decision if they're not quite sure where their next steps are yet. So again, thank you to all of our panelists and to our prospective students. If you have additional questions that either you didn't feel comfortable asking—there were a couple of that were shared in the chat—but if you have a specific resource or question that you have and don't know where to go with it reach out to myself or to any of our panelists and we're happy to help you. Our general email account is admission@indiana.edu. So, you can certainly just contact us there, and we'll make sure that we connect you with the appropriate resource.

So, now we're going to take a brief break. We'll give you about 15 minutes, and then we'll be back with our school panels. We have a couple of schools that will tell you a little bit more about what they have to offer. Although we do not have all of our schools represented, you can take away many of the same resources that each school provides, for example, the research opportunities, the internship opportunities, the career centers, the advising. All schools have those resources, they might just look a little bit different. So, as you hear from our schools panel, there is certainly additional information that you can take away from the ones that are present. So, we will see you back here in about 15 min at 4:45.

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Expert Panel

• College of Arts + Sciences
• Hamilton Lugar School of Global and International Studies
• Kelley School of Business
• The Media School
• School of Education
• School of Public Health
• School of Social Work]

Kelly: Okay, welcome. Back, everybody. We did have a couple of questions that came in during the break. So, I wanted to address those while we can, and then we'll start into the introduction of our schools panel.

So, there will be a recording of this, and it'll be sent out with your survey on your experience that you had with IU. and then we also had a question about when transfer students begin to sign up for fall semester and how. So that is during your New Student Orientation. That is one of the things that you will be doing. You'll talk to your academic advisor about your classes, about your interests, and then you will go and schedule your classes, and they'll also can help you with that process. And so, yeah, if you have any questions, still use that Q&A feature and be happy to get to your answers.

So, with no further ado, I would like to introduce our wonderful panel from the schools that we have: the College of Arts and Sciences, as well as Hamilton Lugar School of Global International Studies, the Kelley School, The Media School, School of Education, Public health and Social Work. So, we'll just go ahead in order of the slides. So the College of Arts and Sciences. First.

Mark Hurley: Thanks, Kelly. Should we introduce ourselves as we come in. I was away earlier. So yeah. You're fine.

Kelly: No, you're fine. So, we're just gonna go in the order of the slides. If you would introduce yourself and tell us a little bit about your school.

Mark: Okay. Thanks. I'm Mark Hurley I'm Director of Advising for the College, and Shauna Melvin is also joining us from the College. So, Shauna, were you gonna—oh, I was gonna start. That's right. So yeah, just a quick note about the College. The College has over 80 majors, and we include three schools within the college. The Media School, the Hamilton Lugar School of Global and International Affairs, and also the Eskenazi School of Art, Architecture, and design. All those are housed under the larger structure of the College, and we provide the advising for all of those. So, for transfer students we do do direct certification if you have 26 hours, that counts towards graduation and completion of your English Comp. And in terms of advising structure, we have advisors that are reporting centrally that are housed with the units, so you know, there will be an advisor attached to your intended Major, if you're with the College. So, that's a little bit of an overview. And Shauna is gonna talk a little bit about our supports for incoming transfer students.

Shauna: Yeah. Thanks. Mark, Hi, my name is Shauna Melvin. I am a College academic advisor and in conjunction with what Mark was sharing, we are connected to different departments. I'm an advisor for seven different departments in kind of the arts and humanities. I'll go ahead and list them out to so you can see the variety. There's African American African Diaspora studies English, comparative literature, gender studies, theatre, drama, and contemporary dance, philosophy, and also the Classics department. There's two of us advisors that advise for those seven departments. So, if you were going to be a major in any one of those you could come to me and talk about that. Also, if you were gonna be a major in something else, or in other school on campus, and you wanted a minor in one of these departments, I would be the person that you can talk to about that, or my partner Kristin Mann as well. So, it just gives you kind of some context of how to navigate a little bit in the College of Arts and Sciences in the broader IU, I think.

I just wanted to talk to you a little bit about supports for transfer students entering the College of Arts and Sciences and maybe a couple of tips for a successful NSO or New Student Orientation meeting with your advisor. Starting with the tips, I would say one tip is, ask about acronyms. There's a lot of acronyms out there in the world. We will assume sometimes that people know what NSO is. So asking when somebody uses an acronym is so asking when somebody uses an acronym is a really good idea. I would say, another thing is, go ahead and introduce yourself to your faculty members—I know the faculty member said that earlier—as a transfer student, so that they can know to maybe not use those acronyms, or maybe give you those extra resources for the library that they generally only give to their freshman students. So, I think that it's a good way to introduce yourself, as I'm on a junior transfer here. This is my first IUB semester, so we can give them those notifications to give you more information. For that NSO appointment, making sure that you did your placement exams is really important. If you are gonna need a math class, math placement’s important for that advising appointment in the College of Arts and Sciences. Most of our majors require a foreign language. So, if you want to continue with a foreign language that you've already started, and maybe don't have credit for that foreign language at the college level, please do take that placement exam before your New Student Orientation appointment. Eric talked a little bit about keeping your syllabi. That's for that undistributed or non-transferable courses to get those reviewed. We send them to the advisor in charge of that department. So, for English, for example, I get a lot of syllabi to make sure that I get those English composition faculty members to review it, and then I can update that if it is English composition for you for this other course that we've never seen here at IU Bloomington before. So, holding onto the syllabi. I think Eric did say, don't just keep a link, because you might not have access to your older institution anymore. Actually download it. It's much easier if you just have it downloaded, and you can forward that to us. And then I’d say the last thing about tips for a New Student Orientation is any AP or IB, or dual credit that you did in high school that you sent to your previous institution will not automatically come to IU Bloomington when you send those transcripts from your previous institution. You have to send that AP, IB, or that dual credit that you took in high school to IU Bloomington as well. I run into a lot of those conversations during New Student Orientation, and what we are always trying to avoid is make sure that a student doesn't enroll in a class that they already have credit for. So, having all those things in place and asking questions early is really important.

Supports. Once you get to the College of Arts and Sciences, we have a Canvas site that is our platform for classrooms online. We have a Canvas site just for college students who are transfers and what it is it kind of provides information and a starting point for students who just if you don't know really where you are or what to do next, there is a transfer syllabus on there that I think is helpful in, these are weeks one through three of a semester, what should I be thinking of? It talks about going to office hours. It gives you a lot of tips for success, and then it's also where we send out announcements to transfer students about things that are going on. Sometimes I just send out a general announcements like, Hey, registration is coming up soon. This is a really good time to go talk to an advisor before the scheduled of classes gets posted, and then we're all really busy. So, I try to give transfer students a little bit of a heads up or send out information about undistributed credits like this is what to look for, this is how to talk to your advisor about it. So, making sure that when you do get here and we send you that invitation to the College transfer Canvas site, go ahead and accept that invitation and engage with us in any way that you'd like through it.

The other thing is, we will send out invitations to transfer events that we have throughout the semester. We're gonna start doing some transfer lunches and we'll center them around some different topics. So, our first one is going to be decorating planners. Getting your planner together for the semester and just general questions. There's always academic advisors there to answer your questions, and then hopefully creating some community among other transfer students. Other things, that we'll do is like, maybe have an overseas study day where we’re also decorating pumpkins this fall. So, things like that just kind of fun laid back. They're always hosted by the Walter Career Center. So, you always have career people around as well. And that's just a great space to get involved with, even during your very first semester, especially as transfer students you don't have all that much time before you're going to be moving into your careers, right? So, it's important to have those conversations earlier. I think that's all I had. Mark, do you have anything to add?

Mark: Thanks. Shauna. Yeah, that—I mean, Shawna and the transfer team do great work in trying to create community for transfer students in the College. I would just end with a few reminders as you're thinking about coming to orientation and in your first semester at IU Bloomington. First thing in your first semester early, don't wait. You don't have to have answers. Connect with your academic advisor and a Walter Center career coach. You're experienced students, but you really wanna make connections with these folks early on, and then that way, you have that relationship established when you have a need later. Also, if you need to take them, please make sure you take math and get started in your language sequence as soon as possible. These are not skills that get better with rest. So, go ahead and make sure you do that. Also think about—and this is where your advisors gonna come—in sequence issues in the major. Are there courses that need to be taken in a particular order at a particular time, and make sure you're prioritizing those. And then finally, the College has a residency requirement, which is 36 hours of courses in the college at on the Bloomington campus, after your 60^th credit hour. The credits you come in with, the more you have to really focus on that, and make sure you're completing hours in the College on the Bloomington campus. And there are case requirements that have to be completed on the Bloomington campus or through a Bloomington approved overseas study program. So, in other words, this is like our diversity in the United States requirement, the global cultures and civilizations requirement, and the critical approaches. So, those things you want to also make sure you’re prioritizing because you can't take them at a community college or someplace else and transfer them back. That's all I have.

Janai: Alright, thank you. And so now we'll hand it over to the Hamiltonian Lugar School. Ben.

Ben: Thank you, Kelly, and also thank you, Shauna and Mark. I am not an academic advisor, but all the information that they shared being a smaller school within the College of Arts and Sciences here at Hamilton Lugar School a lot of those great tips and suggestions are also relevant to any student who's considering a major or minor in Hamilton Lugar School as well. And I think the take home again is if you have questions, talk to your academic advisor. They are very useful and very helpful for all sorts of questions regarding your collegiate career. I'm gonna try a different thing, alright? I’m gonna try to share my screen. So that we can share a brief slide show. Let's see if this works.

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Hamilton Lugar School of Global and International Studies

• Hamilton Lugar School Recruitment & Student Services
• We are Hamilton Lugar]

Ben: Give me a thumbs up. Can anybody see? Okay. Good. Thank you. Thank you. So, I know I got a time limit. So, I'm gonna be real brief and hit some highlights here. This is just for anybody who's interested in anything related to culture, language, travel, the politics of other countries, the history and societies of places and people around the world, the Hamilton Lugar School might be a place that you might be interested in checking out.

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Ben: Here's our school building on a nice sunny day, and so just a few things about the school itself.

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We educate principled, nonpartisan leaders

• #1 foreign languages, language flagship programs (U.S. Dept. of Defense), foreign languages and area studies, Model UN (Big Ten)
• #2 Boren Scholars
• 4^th largest International Affairs school
• Top 10 critical language scholars
• Top 16 number of Fullbright students & Scholars
• Bottom bar of the slide reads: Hamilton Lugar. Globally ready]

Ben: It's pretty cool here at IU. We boast more foreign language instruction, more foreign languages than any other university in the country, which is pretty outstanding. 80 plus languages. On any given semester you have a wide variety of opportunities to learn any kind of language that you might and maybe some that you've never heard of before. And as many of you may know, learning language is also about learning culture, and the people, and the history of those places in the world. So it's a really amazing opportunity if you love learning about language, and culture. Another thing that we'll just point out here is if you really want to get into language, we have language flagship programs which help you go from zero. Literally, you have to have no experience in Chinese, Arabic, or Russian, and within four to five years, depending on your plan you can be professionally proficient and working in an internship for a year abroad in in a country where those languages are spoken. So, something that we are very proud to offer here at HLS and IU.

[Slide: A school for all interests

• Political science, Linguistics, Communications, International development, Business, Education, Non-profit management, History, Journalism, Media, Gastronomy, Public health, Computing & Informatics, Law, Fashion design]

Ben: And what kind of students come to HLS? Whether you may want to consider a major or a minor or certificate here in the Hamilton Lugar School. It really does take all kinds of students, whether you want to globalize your other degree maybe. I've met a number of students who, for instance, are interested in journalism, and so they study in The Media School, for instance, as well as choose an international studies major or minor, and you can see how they take their expertise and understanding of in the world of reporting and journalism and can globalize that and become a foreign correspondent, maybe someday. Or a student who's interested in business. I think you can imagine the quick and easy connections. Business is not local. Business is global and it's getting bigger. And the markets around the world are opening up in different ways. So, if you can understand the language and the culture of a different place where a market may be growing, you are truly an asset to any multinational corporation or business trying to open markets abroad.

[Slide: A small liberal arts school in a Big 10 university

• 7:1 student-faculty ratio
• 18 Title VI institutes and centers
• #6 innovative college for language study
• Our faculty members are a mix of outstanding research scholars, prominent foreign policy experts, and former government officials. Their expertise runs the gamut from human rights to global trade, from climate change to war and peace. They cover every continent—including Antarctica.]

Ben: A couple of other things about our school. We are one of the smallest schools on campus. Our student to faculty ratio is seven to one, and so what that affords is kind of a chance for students to really get to know their classmates and their faculty members as well in a way that a lot of students share that those sorts of smaller classes help provide students with mentoring relationships with their faculty, with their instructors and professors. It's a great opportunity to get to know some really amazing people, professors who come from all different walks of life and disciplines, whether that's law or political science, or linguistics, or anything else. Anthropologists, sociologists. There's folks here at HLS who are experts in various fields of international life.

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Undergraduate degrees

• Central Eurasian Studies BA: Cultures from Central Europe to East Asia
• Middle Eastern Languages & Cultures BA: Middle Eastern cultures and history
• East Asian Languages & Cultures or East Asian Studies BA: Korean, Japanese, 7 Chinese language and civilization
• India Studies BA: Cultures, languages, & socio-political dimensions of South Asia
• International Studies BA, BS, BA/MA: Interdisciplinary global issues and language
• International Law & Institutions BA: Global affairs and supranational institutions
• Cybersecurity & Global Policy BS: Informatics security and global governance]

Ben: Quickly. Here, let's just take a look at the seven different degrees that we offer for undergraduate students here. Along the left column you can see degrees that are specific to particular regions of the world where you will really dive in deep and drill down into the culture and the history, and certainly the languages from those parts of the world. Our most commonly pursued degree is international studies major and it's a little bit more broad based. But you still have a chance to kind of customize your degree based on your interest, whether you're more interested in global health or climate change, or war and conflict, or human rights. There's lots of different ways that you can take that international studies major. International law. We are the only university in the country that has an international law program. And then we also have this very unique joint degree program with the Luddy School of informatics, where you can become fluent in computer language as well as spoken language, foreign languages, cultures as well. So, you have the best of two different schools here, with the cybersecurity and global policy degree. I'm just gonna share one last slide, because I know my time is coming short.

[Slide: Undergraduate Minors and Certificates

• European Studies, India Studies, International Studies, Latin American & Caribbean Studies, Middle Eastern Languages & Cultures, African Studies, Central Eurasian Studies, East Asian Languages & Cultures, East Asian Studies, Islamic Studies, Polish Studies, Peace Corps Prep, Russian & East European Studies, Southeast Asian & ASEAN Studies]

Ben: In addition to the majors, if you are a transfer student, and you're thinking about what you could dabble in here at HLS. A minor is an easy way to kind of get your feet wet and experience the world right here in Bloomington, because we really do have as you can see almost every part of the world represented. And so a minor is usually, let's say, five classes, usually three credit hours per class, and certificates can be a few more classes, maybe 21 credit hours. Usually about seven classes. But the languages, the opportunities to study abroad, the experiences with professors from all different walks of life, who are sharing their culture and their languages, their history, their people with you. That's kind of what we love to share about HLS. And if you're a student who's interested in some of these things, please do reach out anytime.

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Ben: Happy to discuss the options we have here at HLS anytime with you. Thank you very much.

Kelly: Alright! Thank you for sharing, and we're going to—

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Kelly: I think our Kelley representative is having some technical issues in joining. I don't think she's had a chance to hop on yet, so we will come back to Kelley and go to Media.

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Matt: Alright. Hello, everyone! Thank you so much for joining us today on a Friday early evening here. My name is Matt Gillam, and I am the Associate Director of Recruitment in The Media School. I'm just going to give you a brief overview today of our programs and what we offer.

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Degrees

• BFA in Cinematic Arts
• BS in Game Design
• BA in Journalism: News Reporting & Editing; Public Relations
• BA in Media: Cinema & Media Studies; Fashion Media; Film, TV, and Digital Production; Interactive & Digital Media; Media Advertising; Media Management, Law, and Policy; Media Science; Media technologies, Games & Cultures; Sports Media]

Matt: So, some background on The Media School, as others have mentioned, we are part of the College of Arts and Sciences, and we currently offer 4 academic degree programs. But, as you can see here, many different ways to customize these programs with a total of 11 different concentrations. Our oldest program that goes back more than a century is our Bachelor of Arts in journalism. So, really preparing students to tell stories in a variety of different ways, using different multimedia platforms, really learning how to find their voice in telling stories in an engaging an ethical way. And students in that program can choose for between two different concentrations: news reporting and editing, which might be more what you think of traditionally with journalism. Students in that program are also diving into sports, journalism, graphic design work, audio journalism lots of different avenues. And then we also have a public relations concentration. That program still rooted in storytelling but preparing students to tell stories of maybe a company or an organization or a government entity, learning how to manage their communication campaigns and present themselves to customers and constituents. Our largest degree program currently is our Bachelor of Arts in media, and you can see why, because we have so many concentration options here with nine different concentrations that you can pursue. And just to touch on a few of our most popular. Sports media is a top-tier program here at IU it was actually ranked number six in the country this year, number one in the Big Ten conference, and our students have the chance to gain experience covering 22 division one men's and women's athletic teams here in the Big Ten conference. They're doing that across campus, they're doing that nationally traveling and covering those teams through a variety of different formats, whether that's our school newspaper, student television, student radio, you name it. We also have a really popular media advertising. It's actually our current largest program, and that prepares students to not only manage an advertising campaign, but they're also going to have to learn how to create them, think about what they look like visually, think about the psychology behind media advertising, and how people respond to media messages, and then how do you use that information to make better and more effective media messaging moving forward. Really great program for students that might have an interest in business, but also want to combine that with some creative training as well. If you're interested in creating really any kind of digital content from phones as small as an iPhone all the way to a film screen and about everything in between, we have a strong film, TV, and digital production program. And with that program, you're actually gonna have some training in world class facilities and studios right here on our campus. If you're interested in video games, we have a Bachelor of Science program in game design that teaches students how to create games from start to finish. That program is a little bit smaller, so it's pretty collaborative and you really get to know the students in your cohort and work with them closely over the four years that you're here. And the highlight of that program is actually in your last three semesters, you and a team of about 8 to 10 students will create a game from start to finish. So, if you can imagine designing one game over a year and a half how polished that game is going to be and how much you're going to learn along the way in that program. And then our final program is our newest degree, and that is our Bachelor of Fine Arts in cinematic arts. So, we've had other opportunities to study film at IU going back decades. But this is a little bit of a new iteration that students can pursue. And it's really designed to allow students to chance to hone in on their specific voice as a filmmaker and learn how they want to tell stories in film that may be others in the industry or other people studying film have different perspectives. Really gonna help define yourself as a filmmaker moving forward. And that program also gives students the opportunity to do a capstone project over their final year. You have two semesters to complete a thesis film, and you can really take that thesis film anywhere you want to highlight how you've grown as a filmmaker and again what your unique voice is within film.

[Slide: Minors & Certificates

• Black cinema and media studies; film production; game design; global media; media and creative advertising; media and diversity; media law and ethics; media persuasion; media, sex and gender; public relations; sports media; certificate in journalism; certificate in new media and interactive storytelling]

Matt: Now, if you're not pursuing a degree within The Media School, we certainly encourage you to take advantage of some of our courses, maybe through a minor certificate program. Most of our minors are about 15 credit hours, certificate programs are either 24 or 27 credit hours, and these are all designed for students that are pursuing degrees outside of The Media School. So, if you want a dose of journalism or game design or film to add to your degree, these are great ways to do it. And I would say that a lot of these minors that we have, and really all the programs in The Media School, have some similar themes of communication and storytelling, and those are really skills that you can take into any career that you're going to be going into moving forward. Those are things that employers really like to see, and important skills to bring into again whatever field that you have an interest in. So, we hope that these options are really going to help you gain those skills and take them with you, no matter where you're going.

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• Experiential learning
  • Field experience courses
  • Semester in Los Angeles
• Student Organizations
  • Over 20 organizations
  • Indiana Daily Student, WIUX Radio, Indiana University Student Television, GameDev@IU, and more!]

Matt: Tons of ways to get hands on experience from day one in The Media School. We have more than 20 student organizations and student media outlets that you can join. And you don't have to have any experience to join these. We have a lot of students that come in and maybe have been transfer students that have already started pursuing a med degree elsewhere or students that had experience in high school. We also students that are coming in or just discovering media for the first time and we have spots for all students on that spectrum. Some of our student organizations include the Indiana Daily Student. That is our student newspaper, which is nationally recognized. Opportunities for students not only to write, report and edit, but also to work with paid advertising, social media, graphic design work, photography. We have a completely student-run television network that gives students experience in both news entertainments and sports broadcasting. We have WIUX student radio. A great ad club PRSSA for students studying PR. Really endless opportunities.

And not only are you gonna have a chance to gain experience on campus, but our students are certainly getting plenty of experience off campus through a variety of ways. One of those ways being field experience courses. Really great ways to go out and gain experience, but also combine that with some travel abroad. So, these courses are usually a semester long and they incorporate maybe a week-long or three or four week-long travel experience over the summer. In the past we've had film students that have gone to Prague to shoot short films. Next year we've got some game design students who will be traveling to Japan. Working on a Mexico City trip for journalism students to go and do some environmental reporting work down in Mexico City as well. So, some really unique opportunities you can take advantage of.

And then certainly internships and one internship I wanna highlight is our semester in Los Angeles program, and it allows juniors or seniors in The Media School to go out to L.A. for a full semester or over the summer, complete an internship while they're there, take a couple of IU classes and live with other Media School students right there in the Hollywood. So, you're right there in the thick of the industry, gaining some really valuable experience. We've had students in places like Blumhouse Productions, the Academy of Country Music. We just this past semester had a student who is a production assistant for The Jimmy Kimmel Show. So some really top-notch opportunities students have participated in out there.

[Slide: Career Preparation

• Water Center for Career Achievement
• Internships
  • 87% of students complete at least one
  • On average, students complete two internships]

Matt: This generally our students are leaving The Media School career ready. Most students, 87% here, do at least one internship. While it's not a required aspects of our degree program, we've found that students really want that experience. And just going into media, as much experience that you can have coming out of school is gonna benefit you. So, we're ready to support students in those endeavors. One of the ways that we do that is certainly through the Walter Center for Career Achievement, which is the career hub for students that are part of the College of Arts and Sciences, and we specifically have some folks who work directly with our Media School students over there that are prepared to help assist you and find those internships, and prepare yourselves for those next steps.

[Slide: Transfer Admission & Scholarships

• Transfer admission
  • Admission to IU
  • 26 credits that count towards the degree
• Scholarships
  • Transfer students can apply or scholarships towards the end of their first semester for the following academic year]

Matt: As far as admission to The Media School, just a couple of things that we require. First of all, admission to Indiana University and then if you have listed a Media School major on your application and you've obtained 26 credit hours that will count towards your Media School degree, you'll certify into The Media School right away. If you don't have those credits, you can still pursue a degree in The Media School, you'll just come in and you're going to start in University Division, and you're going to take the credits needed to get up to that 26 credit hours and certify in that process. And we certainly have students that come in both ways and do quite well. So, your academic advisor will help you determine which pathway you're on, and how to proceed with that pathway.

And then, last point here. Just wanted to mention scholarship opportunities. We actually give most of our scholarship money to returning students, which means that transfer students are eligible to apply for a lot of what we offer and you can start applying for those scholarship opportunities towards the end of your first semester here, for the following academic year. We have a full list of our scholarship opportunities on our website. Some are general, some are specific to where you're from or what you're studying. They really vary. But if you're ever interested in what we have to offer definitely take a look at our website to get a sense for those opportunities.

[Slide changes to a background image of the two-story lobby and lounge area of The Media School. A white IU trident is shown on a red rectangle at the top of the screen. Slide information reads:

The Media School, Indiana University

• Have a question? Email us at mschinfo@iu.edu]

Matt: And last thing I'll say here is, just feel free to reach out to us if you ever have any questions mschinfo@iu.edu. I actually check that email quite frequently, so feel free to send any questions that you have, and we'd love to get in touch and chat more about The Media School. But thank you all for coming.

[Video: The screen share ends and Matt’s video fills the main screen. The camera is off and the word Matt Gillam appear in white letters on a black screen. This is replaced by the words, Kelly Waggoner-IU, as the speaker changes.]

Kelly: Alright! Thank you for The Media School, Matt.

[Video: The slide presentation returns to the main screen with the Expert Panel information shown previously. The speaker videos return to the upper right corner of the screen.]

Kelly: That was a lot of great information, and next up we have—we're gonna go to the School of Public Health. Our School of Education rep has become ill and she won’t be able to join us today. But if you do have School of Education questions, please let us know, and we'll make sure that we get those questions to them so you can make a sound decision for yourself. But I will now hand it over to Trisha.

Trisha: Hi, everybody! I'm gonna go ahead and do some screen sharing, too.

Video: The slide presentation is replaced by a screen share of a Microsoft desktop screen]

Trisha: Everybody see that. Okay, I'm Trisha Doyle and I—

Kelly: Actually, Trisha, I don't think we can see that.

Trisha: Oh, you don't. Okay.

Kelly: We see a toolbar from Outlook. I think.

Trisha: That is not what you want. Well, let's see here.

Kelly: It's currently a black screen with a toolbar.

Trisha: Yeah, let me stop that one and get the right one.

[Video: The screen share ends and Trisha’s video fills the main screen briefly. The screen share then restarts to show a PowerPoint work screen with a School of Public Health presentation loaded and a side panel with additional slides shown on the left side.]

Trisha: How are we now?

Kelly: We see the slides.

[Video: The slide outline is hidden and one slide fills the screen. The slide has a white background and contains a photo of the School of Public Health viewed from Seventh Street on the IU Bloomington campus. It is a limestone building shown with a green lawn and a limestone staircase leading to an entrance. Slide information reads:

School of Public Health

• At the IU School of Public Health-Bloomington, we prepare students for challenging careers that promote wellness and disease prevention in communities everywhere.
• Majors and minors related to the following career areas:
  • community health & human services
  • health & life sciences
  • healthcare & wellness
  • sports, events, tourism, & recreation
• Our focus:
  • Health and quality of life as a human right
  • Diversity and the value of a global perspective
  • A multidisciplinary approach to learning and research
  • Helping others through community engagement
  • The educational value of career and internship experiences
• School of Public Health Stats:
  • 30% of our undergraduates go on to pursue graduate programs
  • Average class size 40
  • 2000+ undergraduate students
  • 14 academic majors
  • 20+ minors
• Special Opportunities
  • Direct Admission
  • Scholarships
  • Research, Fieldwork, & Internships
  • Honors Program
  • Public Health Research Day
  • Study Abroad
• A quality education, independently verified
  • We are an accredited school of public health, a distinction granted by the Council on Education for Public Health (CEPH), an independent agency with rigorous criteria for quality and integrity.]

Kelly: There you go. Alright! That's what we get for a new computer that had trouble today. Well, I'll start off. I'm Trisha Doyle and I am with the School of Public Health, and work in the undergraduate recruiting office, and I'm excited that everybody is here today because—did I lose you? It's a great opportunity to go ahead and learn more about all the different schools. I'm gonna tell you a little bit about the School of Public Health first of all. And what's exciting is, we're one of the largest schools of public health, and we have about 2,000 undergraduate students, and we have 14 different majors. And our goal is to provide a supportive environment for students that includes careers preventing disease and promoting wellness in our communities. There's great opportunities to learn within the classrooms, but something that's really unique about our school is we focus on learning outside of the classroom as well. So, this includes community field work, study abroad, internships that are required in many of our majors, and also research opportunities.

Another part is, we have so many very unique majors that we organize and into career communities. And part of those career communities—there's four of them. And we believe that students really have a lot of different interests and opportunities that they're going for and majors do not designate a career path. So, there's many possibilities and we want students to explore those possibilities and see what they're interested in and see what majors may align with those. And it could include going to graduate school, medical school, PT school or working in the community. So, we want students to kind of focus on what they want to do and then explore the major through there.

Another couple of things about the school. We have some special opportunities for students. Some of them really is things that have already been mentioned before from other schools. But part of our admission process is you are able to immediately certify into the School of Public Health by getting admitted to IU Bloomington first, which you are. And then there's 26 hours of transferable coursework, and then you need to indicate on that application that you are interested in one of our School of Public Health programs. The other way that students kind of get into the school is through our standard admission process. And this is very common. We are considered a discovery school and many students find us once they're already on campus. So, maybe they're talking to a friend or a faculty or decide to take a class and then really come our direction. So, you can enter University Division and you're able to start taking classes within the School of Health public health right away until you meet that criteria to certify in. We also have, similar to The Media School, scholarships that are available. They are specifically scholarships for current students, and that information is also on our website. And you want to look closely because some of it does have very specific criteria. But transfer students are eligible for the scholarships, so you can still take advantage of those.

We also really are thrilled over the resources that we have for students. Our goal is to support you while you're here. We have career coaches, academic advisors, internship coordinators that provide support, and also students really are able to engage with their faculty due to our smaller class sizes. So, you can have classes of 20 students, 40 students, and especially as you get on up in your major, there's really great opportunities to build connections with those faculty. What we hear from our students is that they love our majors because they're very hands on. But they really allow students to feel like they're making a difference and truly helping people. So, they're able to not only impact individuals but also impact communities. And again, those opportunities outside of the class. Many of our majors have a required internship, so as sports marketing, and others have field service that you can do within our tourism, you know you're gonna be out working in specific roles in the field. We also have an honor program. And it's different than Hutton, but students can do it together. So again, transfer students are eligible for this once you meet the requirements, and you just take the honors program or honors portion of the class, and you do participate in field or research with faculty. So again, this is a really neat opportunity to kind of gain leadership skills and challenge yourself academically while you're at the school. And study abroad. A lot of us have all talked about study abroad. It's a really wonderful experience to see different cultures and languages, and gain new skills. We have short term, semester, and even summer programs. And some of our degrees also have opportunities for study abroad where you have an internship, and that's a great opportunity. Our sports marketing and management program, you can have an internship in Spain or Australia.

Now I want to talk a little bit about some of our majors.

[Slide: The slide changes to a background image of the Sample Gates seen from behind a landscaped bed of red and white tulips. The slide information is shown on two red vertical rectangles in the middle of the screen. Slide information reads:

• Majors: community health; dietetics; environmental health; epidemiology; exercise science; fitness & wellness; human development & family studies; nutrition science; parks, recreation, & the outdoors; recreational therapy; safety; sports marketing & management; tourism, hospitality, & event management; youth development
• Minors: coaching; environmental health; epidemiology; event planning; exercise science; fitness instruction; global health promotion; health aging; health studies; hospitality services; human development & family studies; human sexuality; kinesiology; maternal and child health; nutrition; obesity and health; outdoor recreation, parks, & human ecology; personal well-being; public health; recreational sports management; safety; social justice; sports marketing & management; tourism, hospitality, & event management; youth development
• Our minors are available to all IUB students
• The slide contains a QR code that links to the School of Public Health undergradate programs]

Trisha: We have an abundance of majors that range everything from public health to safety, recreational therapy, and sports marketing and management, and with these students can take advantage of multiple programs, even our minors. And, so within the minors, you can take about five to seven classes is a minor, and they're going to complement your majors. So, it's a really great opportunity within the school to take advantage of things that you are interested in. Students love to explore classes and we have a student that's one of our ambassadors that is in exercise science, wants to be on the physical therapy track, but is also taking a minor in fitness because she loves teaching classes. So, it really does allow students to kind of build those skills based on what they're interested in. And you can scan this QR code on the slide to get some more information on our different majors.

[Slide: The slide changes to a background image containing a close up photograph of a facade of the School of Public Health with large windows surrounded by limestone. Slide information is displayed on a semi-transparent red bar running horizontally across the screen. Slide information reads:

Connect with us

• Office of Undergraduate Recruitment, IU School of Public Health-Bloomington email address
• indiana.edu]

Trisha: And last thing is what we find with our programs is there is such variety and uniqueness in our majors that we offer one-on-one meetings with students. So, whether you have questions or want to learn a little bit more about the different majors and degree paths and internships, we have virtual appointments, on campus, and phone, in addition to group information sessions where students can learn. But we really encourage you if you do have questions about the school to contact us so that we can go into a little bit more detail based on what you're interested in and how that might align with some of the programs that we have.

Kelly: Thank you, Trisha.

[Video: The screen share ends and the speaker video fills the main screen. The camera is off. The screen is black with words displayed in white reading: Kelly Waggoner-IU.]

Kelly: And next up we have School of Social Work. Colleen.

[Video: The video changes and the speaker is shown from the shoulders up.]

Colleen: Hey, everybody! Just give me a moment to get my slideshow up for you. Alright. Well, happy Friday! Thanks for hanging in there. My name is Colleen Rose. I am with the IU School of Social Work

[Video: The speaker video moves to the upper right corner as a slide show appears on the main screen. The slide is a white background with an image of students walking on a brick path between the Sample Gates on the right. Slide information reads:

IU School of Social Work

• Oldest school of social work in the nation
• Largest and highest-ranked school in Indiana. IUB offers BSW, MSW, and Social Welfare Advocacy minor
• Continuously accredited by Council on Social Work Education (CSWE)]

Colleen: and I'm excited to share some information with you about my school and my Alma Mater today. So, a few things to know about IU School of Social Work. We are the oldest school of social work in the United States. We are also the largest and highest ranked in the State of Indiana. So the majority of people earning social work degrees in Indiana are graduating from IU. At Bloomington we have pretty simple options. You can earn our bachelor's and social work, our masters in social work, or for those of you who don't major in social work but are interested, we offer the minor in social welfare advocacy. It's really important. If you want to be able to call yourself a social worker or get licensed as a social worker, you have to graduate from a program that's accredited by the Council on Social Work Education and our program has been accredited without interruptions since 1923.

[Slide: Students who choose social work…

• Want to make a difference in the world
• Enjoy helping others, volunteering
• May be interested in becoming a therapist
• Want a flexible career: could work with kids, in health care, disabilities, criminal justice, schools, policy/law, and more.
• Slide contains a photo of four students standing on a small lecture hall stage.]

Colleen: So, if you're wondering, is social work something I should check out? It's a major you should explore. I can share with you some common qualities of our students. All of our students are passionate about making a positive difference in the lives of others and in the world at large. They're passionate about helping others, and oftentimes have a track record of volunteer work. Many of them are interested in becoming a therapist, a counselor doing diagnosis and intervention with clients down the road later on in their career. Our students really love the flexibility of a social work degree. Social workers are everywhere. So, you can practice in fields, including kids, healthcare, mental health, care, mental health, criminal justice. You can work with individuals with developmental disabilities, you can work in schools, criminal justice, and more. And our students are passionate about social issues, like poverty and helping the most vulnerable in our communities.

[Slide: IU Social Work Highlights

• 4+1 accelerated BSW & MSW
  • Can complete the MSW in 1 year (instead of 2) at IU or any accredited school
  • With a 3.25 IU GPA earn automatic admission to the IU MSW 1-year program
• Classes never larger than 30
• Complete a 2-semester social work internship senior year at IU.
• Most graduates eligible for federal Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program

Colleen: So, a few things I like to highlight about earning a social work degree. We offer a four plus one accelerated bachelors and masters tracks, which means that you can complete your masters degree in social work in as quick as one year. If you were to major in something else like psychology, you can still go on and earn a MSW but it's a two-year masters. With that BSW in hand, it’s a one year option, and you could do that at IU or at any school of social work in the United States. We also offer automatic admission to any of our seniors who finish our program with a 3.25 GPA or higher. We are the smallest school at IU. We're really proud of that, because it allows us to facilitate a really high-touch experience with our students. So, our classes are never larger than 30, and the senior year of your program you do a two semester field placement as a social worker in the community. And last, most of our graduates are eligible for the Federal Public Service Loan forgiveness program which can be applied to student loans from both your undergraduate and graduate years.

[Slide: Transfer to Social Work at IUB

• Choose “Social Work” on IU application
  • Direct admission to BSW program: possible with a C or better in a course that articulates to SWK-S141 Intro to Social Work (check the IUB Credit Transfer Service) + 2.5 GPA.
  • Standard admission: Take SWK-S 141 Intro to Social Work and earn a C or better; 2.5 IU GPA.
  • Human Services TSAP: ITCC & Vincennes only. Visit T S A P dot Indiana dot e d u
• Slide contains a photo of students in two groups: one group wears red scrubs and the other red polo shirts. They stand in front of the IU School of Medicine, School of Nursing, School of Social Work, and School of Speech, Language, and Hearing sign]

Colleen: So, transferring to our program, you want to make sure you choose social work on your IU application. If you’ve already taken the class at your home institution that articulates to Introduction to Social Work at IU Bloomington, you can apply for direct admission with us and start as a social work major on day one. For all other students, we encourage you to take Social Work 141, as soon as you can, and definitely in your first semester at IU Bloomington. And we have a great track record with Human Services TSAP students coming to us from Ivy Tech and Vincennes. These students are very successful in our program.

[Video: The slide changes to an aerial view of the IU Regional Academic Health Campus located on the east side of Bloomington between Tenth and Seventeenth Streets.

Colleen: This is our home in Bloomington. We are attached directly to the brand new hospital in town. We do a lot of interprofessional education along with nursing and medicine students.

[Video: The slide changes to a screenshot of a Zoom meeting room with students making heart hands with the video screen next to them.]

Colleen: And I just like to end. This is our student organization. They continued meeting when the world shut down of March of 2020 to raise funds for our local homeless shelter in town. So this is the kind of crew you get to be a part of.

[Slide: Your Social Work Contact at IUB

• Colleen Rose, MSW, LSW
• Colleen Rose email address
• School of Social Work website
• All students are welcome to email me!]

Colleen: And I'm happy to meet with anyone anytime just send me an email, and we can chat more about your path to social work.

[Video: The screen share ends and Colleen’s video returns to the main screen. The screen then goes black with Kelly Waggoner’s name displayed]

Alright. Thank you. So, our school of business, Kelley School of Business, they were having challenges technically. So, I'm gonna go ahead and try to just give a couple of tidbits, ‘cause I know we have at least one question that came in about the Kelley school. So, I can just share what the standard admission process is for the Kelley School as it is something that is on their website, and very important to know about. If you are a transfer student with the Kelley School.

[Video: A screen share fills the screen showing the Current IU Students page of the Kelley School of Business website. Kelly scrolls down the page as she continues speaking.]

Kelly: So, if you are interested, in this particular major, you'll want to go to the current student website, and you'll see all this wonderful information that I want to share with you. And then you can choose the IU summer of 2023 or later

[Video: The presenter scrolls to the bottom of the page and navigates to the Standard Admission 2023 Criteria page of the Kelley School of Business website.]

Kelly: and you will see the exact requirements to be admitted into the Kelley School if you're meeting the requirements, you will be granted into the school, and so you want to make sure you're knowing about these particular courses. The only one really on this list that you can take as a transfer student is to transfer in is the English W131 course. All the rest of these courses have to be taken on the Bloomington campus, and that is usually why it could take a little bit longer to complete a Kelley degree versus maybe another business degree on our campus through one of our other schools, like the College of Arts and Sciences, or the O'Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs, just to name a few. So, make sure that you're knowing— you're gonna have an academic advisor that is gonna help you through this process. You will need to apply to the Kelley School as you're taking these courses. And then once you complete them and you have Bs or better in the course work, then you would be granted into the Kelley School.

We do have one particular question that came in and I do want to encourage students to start asking questions in the chat feature so that we can start answering those for our school partners. So, the question is, I'm going to Kelley School and it's a requirement to take calculus and finite. I took them already and got a C in the class. Do I have to take my math placement test? So, math placement is usually a requirement, unless you have completed both the 118 and 119 or 211 I believe it is, and then you would not have to take the math placement. The thing with the math placement is that if you were to change majors, or if you needed additional math for any reason, we know exactly where to place you in the class in order for you to be successful. So, you want to make sure that it is in your best interest to take it if you really need an upper level math. But, as you can see here, there is the math 118 and 119 information on the Kelley website as well

 Alright. So, that will wrap it up for the schools panels, and like, I said, if you have questions for the schools, please let us know. This is your opportunity to get that information directly from the experts. And even if there is a school that you do not see on the panel here today, we may still need the answer to, or be able to jump that question down so that we can follow up and make sure you get that information. So, I'm gonna I'm actually stop sharing my screen right now.

[Video: The screen share ends and the speaker video returns to the main screen. The camera is off; the screen is black and displays Kelly Waggoner’s name.]

Kelly: And I'm going to go ahead and ask the schools as we wait for some questions to come in. And that question, I'm gonna open it up is, what is your one piece of advice that you wish all transfer students knew as they came in let's say their first or second semester on campus?

[Video: The video switches between speakers or a black screen with the speaker’s name on the main screen through the next portion of the presentation.]

Matt: I'll share a piece of advice that I hear a lot from the students that I work with at Hamilton Lugar School, and I think it's probably relevant to whatever school you end up in. And the advice is to get to know your professors. They hold office hours for a very specific reason, and it's to get to know their students. And so, if you are kind of person who wants to establish relationship and find again a mentoring opportunity, you can really benefit a lot from not just asking questions about an assignment or a project that you're working on, but also find out about your professors background, their history, their education and along the way you might find out that you have opportunities to network with them, maybe help with an internship or career advice as well. So, it's a really great opportunity. Our faculty here at IU across the schools are top notch, and they want to help you, they want to make your experience at IU as successful as possible. So, find a professor or two whose class you really enjoy, or you just would like to learn more from, and try to reach out to them and make some connections that way.

Shauna: You know, I'll second that. Ben, I think that's a great tip. I often talk to students who I see just had a couple of not great semesters, some Cs and Ds, and then all of a sudden have a semester where they really knock it out of the park and it's just all As and Bs, and I always ask that what happened? What did you do? And the only answer I've ever gotten is, I started going to office hours. I know I was a transfer student, and I was in—I got some advice when I first started, and it was, go in and introduce yourself to every one of your faculty members, and just let them know that you're a transfer student. I think that that was the best advice ever. I was also a parent at the time, so I also just let them know I have a child, this is my first semester on campus. And I got such a warm welcome and so much great information that they wouldn't have known to give me otherwise. So, I think just in addition to what Ben said, letting them get to know you as well can really be beneficial to your entire experience. Thanks.

Trisha: I’ll go ahead. I know for the School of Public Health this is something we like to share, is students being very proactive and working with their academic advisors. I know we've got some on this call. I know there's a tendency as a transfer student to maybe worry, am I behind? Am I not gonna be done on time? And really you have such a great opportunity to work with academic advisors in doing pre-planning. Talk to them about what classes work well together so that you can be set up for success as far as your grades and your learning, but also really understanding the big picture. A lot of our programs like I said, do require field work and internships, so understanding what can I do now as far as courses so that I can make sure that I get these other experiential learning experiences done in the right amount of time that lead up to whether it's graduate school or my future career. So really taking advantage of the resources that are at your disposal. Like now, even, with the New Student Orientation.

Kelly: I'm going to—so we do have an extra guest in the room today, and that's Johnny Minard. He is a current transfer student. So, I'm gonna give him a moment to think of that answer as well. But do we have any of our other school partners that wanted to chime in on that one? Alright. Well, Johnny, I'll let you take it away. What was the one piece of information that you thought was helpful when you transferred? Johnny is our Admissions Office transfer intern. So he helps with us behind the scenes with our transfer visits and some of the other things that need to happen in order to keep our program running efficiently. So, Johnny, would you like to introduce yourself first and then offer a little bit of context of your experience?

Johnny: Yes. Yeah, of course. Can you hear me here?

Kelly: Yes.

Johnny: Okay, yeah. My name is Johnny Minard. I am gonna be senior next year. I spent my first two years at DePauw and then I transferred to IU. This was my— I just finished my first year. One of the biggest things for me was student involvement, getting involved on campus. Going to the club fairs, the job fairs, even if you don't really need a job, necessarily, it's an opportunity to network and start meeting people start making this really big campus with over 30,000 people—it t makes helps to make it feel a little bit smaller when you have a couple of friendly faces and you get involved in clubs, and you're able to make some friends, because at least for me, school is a lot more enjoyable when I have friends, and have people to talk, to have things to do to help balance that social life. So, that's probably my biggest piece of advice. It's not academic, but it does help with the academics when you're able to get some really good r and r.

Kelly: Great, great. Thank you. That was very helpful, as I'm sure a lot of transfer students are not quite sure on how to make that transition a little bit smoother for themselves, and definitely getting involved and meeting people will help, and therefore help you in the classroom too. Right. One other plug that I have. It is the Transfer Student Advisory Board. It was mentioned earlier, I think Bailey from First Year Experience mentioned that. It is a group of transfer students that is helping other transfer students acclimate to campus and just to have a couple events going on during the school year. But it is also a sounding board for the people that you see here on the screen. We invite them to a meeting with other partners on campus to hear their voices about their transfer experience. And this is open for both prospective and current students. And we get to bounce an idea off of them. If we are going to pitch a program, see if it is well accepted, well formulated idea, but also any challenges that the students are having, they can push up to us to see if we can work with our other campus partners to solve some of their problems. So, for example, we had a student who was going to walk with honors at their graduation, and they were completing that accolade in the last semester before transferring and due to that— before graduating— and in order to do that, it was in the last semester, and due to that they were not able to have the actual cords on their graduation gown, and they let us know about that issue. They did not feel that that was very welcoming to transfer students. So, we heard about it. Shauna is shaking her head. Yeah. And we were able to fix that for that student and we were happy to do that. So, the more that we hear from transfer students from transfer students on what challenges that they are presented with, the more that we're going to be able to try to fix some of these issues as best as we can anyway.

So, does anyone have any last questions for our panelists? I know that as we went into break last time there was a couple of questions that popped up when we returned, so I want to make sure we get all those options or all that opportunity to our guests as possible. While you're thinking of your last-minute questions, and I do mean a couple last minutes here, I did want to give the opportunity to share our campus, what it looks like, because coming into a big institution like IU, it can be an intimidating process, right? So, to understand what our campus looks like a little bit better, I wanted to share our campus map. This is something that you can find on your own and dive deep into a little bit more. So, let me go ahead and share my screen.

[Video: The main screen shows the online interactive IU Bloomington campus map with a guide bar on the left side of the screen an aerial view of campus on the right.]

Kelly: Okay. Everyone should be able to see my screen now and over here you're gonna see the different locations and even tours that you can check out. So, you’ll want to do that, but to give you a little bit better idea about the size of campus.

[Video: The cursor moves over different parts of the screen as Kelly continues in voiceover.]

Kelly: This green area that has all the buildings is campus. But what you're not gonna recognize is that a lot of this stuff is not something that you're going to see and do every single day on campus. So, if you're thinking about going to class every day, it only takes about 10 to 15 minutes to get across campus, and you have 15 min in between each class to do so. But most of the buildings are like 5 to 10 min apart. 15 to 20 min to get across campus is literally going from your residence hall to the other side of campus, which you very rarely would do. And then, additionally, the campus is broken up into different sections to a point. So, let's zoom in on our campus map, here.

[Video: The guide bar remains on the left side of the screen and the right side with the map zooms in and moves as Kelly points out certain locations and landmarks.]

Kelly: Give me just a second to make sure that everyone can kind of see these streets, that I'm gonna be pointing out. Alright. So, the first one that I wanna point out is Indiana Avenue. This is the edge of campus on the west side, and this is where Sample Gates, if you've seen the iconic sample gates. You’ve probably seen them in some of the emails that we have sent to you. And that goes right down into Kirkwood, which leads into the downtown area, and one street over is Fourth Street and per capita has the most ethnic food just behind New York. So, certainly things to check out when you're here on campus. But as you come a little bit farther east on campus, you're going to see the Indiana Memorial Union, and then if you keep going you are going to see Eagleson Avenue. That's this right here. That is the academic part of campus east to west, and then south to north, we're gonna start with Third Street down here, and then Tenth Street, which is right here. That is the north and south academic part of campus. Outside of those areas is your residence halls, your athletic fields way up north. So, for example, if you go up north, here are some residence halls. And on Tenth Street you have Hodge Hall which is the undergraduate business school. Psychology, geology, and the informatics building, as well as some Luddy School of Informatics and research areas. A lot of these other buildings are going to be either office hours, culture houses, research areas, and things like that that you're not going to spend a lot of time in maybe a day a week. Or if you're doing research, you might be there a little bit more often. And then way farther past Briscoe—all these are residential halls—you're gonna see the athletic fields. So again, you're not there every day. You might be—hopefully, you're going to some of the games, and that's really gonna get you engaged. And then some of the other sorority houses are over here on the east side. School of Education is the only one that is a little bit farther outside of the Eagleson Avenue location. That's another residential hall, Eigenmann right here. This is the Central Neighborhood.

[Video: The right side of the screen with the map zooms out to show the full campus as it sits in Bloomington.]

Kelly: Again, all of these things are very close to campus, as I zoom out, you're gonna get a better picture of what that actually looks like, and I'll go ahead and take the buildings off of the map so that you can get a better idea—I guess they're not gonna come off—better idea of what campus will look like here. This is not as big as it seems. And when we say 10 to 15 minutes walking across campus, we also have scooters and bikes during the warm seasons. During the winter we put them up for safety’s sake. We also have campus bus and city bus that is free for our students to use, and you know a simple walk across campus is just both unique and memorable for all of our students to experience, so we certainly would hope that you enjoy it as much as we do.

[Video: The screen share ends and the speaker video returns to the main screen. The screen remains black with Kelly’s name in white letters at the center.]

Kelly: So, I don't see that any additional questions have come in, so we're going to go ahead and end our session today. But if you do have additional questions, I will put my contact information in the chat, so if you need to follow up, you can do so. Alright! Well, everyone have a great evening. Happy Mother's Day to any of the mothers out there, and we hope to see you in the fall for your Hoosier experience. And again at any time you have any questions, please let us know. Have a great evening.

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