Fall Welcome Events

Fall Welcome helps students become acquainted with their new college environment and provides greater opportunity for academic, social, and individual growth prior to the start of classes.

Fall Welcome includes a welcome picnic, all-college convocation ceremony, the First-Year Reading Initiative discussion, social activities, a meeting held by the academic deans, and many interesting workshops and presentations offered by offices and organizations on campus.

Fall Welcome begins on Sunday, August 24 and goes through Tuesday, August 26.

Sunday, August 24

10:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m.
First-year students check into residence halls area and satellite offices

3:00–5:00 p.m.
Training for all students working in Dining Services (various locations)

5:00–8:00 p.m.
BBQ Dinner (Campus Center Quad)
Join us for E Komo Mai, a free welcome luau open to all first-year students at Ithaca College. E Komo Mai is an annual tradition co-sponsored and planned by IC After Dark, a student-run organization. Each year, first-year students are welcomed with a relaxing BBQ for students to reconnect with those you have met at orientation and meet new ones. Enjoy delicious food, cool prizes and lots fun -- everything you would expect at any IC After Dark event. (Rain Location: Emerson Suites)

Times TBD
Floor Meetings (RA’s determine time)

Monday, August 25

11:00 a.m.
Convocation (Hill Center)

12:00–2:00 p.m.
Community Picnic (Academic Quad)

2:00–3:00 p.m.
Dean’s Welcome

• School of Business (Park Center for Business and Sustainable Enterprise, Room 111)
• School of Communications (Ford Theatre)
• Division of Interdisciplinary and International Studies (Clarke Lounge, Campus Center)
• School of Health Sciences and Human Performance (Hill Center)
• School of Humanities (Emerson Suites)
• School of Music* (Hockett Hall, Whalen Center)

3:00 – 5:00 p.m.
* Following Dean’s Welcome, students will meet with advisers. (Music Theory Fundamental Exam, 2330 Whalen Center)

Time TBD
Comedian: Robbie Printz

Time TBD
Residence Life Floor Meetings (various locations)

Tuesday, August 26

10:00–11:00 a.m.
Reading Initiative Faculty Panel (Hill Center)

11:15a.m.–12:15 pm
Small Group Discussions (various locations)

12:30 p.m.
Lunch on your own (dining halls)

Session 1: 2:00–2:50 p.m.
Session 2: 3:00–3:50 p.m.
Session 3: 4:00–4:45 p.m.
College 101: Crash Course Workshops to Surviving your First Month in College.
*All workshops are offered during each of the three sessions. You may choose which workshops you would like to attend.

• Get Engaged (Textor 101)
• Figuring It Out: Finding Identity in a New Place (Textor 102)
• To Your Health! (Textor 103)
• Library Tours (Library)

3:00–4:00 p.m.
Leadership Scholars Reception (Klingenstein Lounge)

4:00–7:00 p.m.
OMA BBQ (IC Square)

5:00–7:00 p.m.
First-Year Honor Students Picnic (H & S Campus Center Quad; Rain Location: Emerson Suites)

6:00 p.m.
Screening of the Movie Persepolis (Textor 103)

7:00–8:30 p.m.
Ice Cream Social Music Majors (McHenry Lobby, Whalen Center)

8:00 p.m.
Screening of the Movie Persepolis (Textor 103)