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New program may replace canceled University 100

A restructured and expanded version of the recently canceled University 100 program, an unpopular one-unit course meant to aid freshman orientation, may find its way into the Cal State Long Beach course schedule some time in the future.

The new program, which may become a requirement for incoming freshmen, will be tailored to fit major and departmental needs, unlike the recently canceled one-unit course.

University 100 was dumped off course schedules before the 2009-10 school year due to budget cuts.

The required course was meant to help freshmen transition into college, become familiar with advising and get to know the history of their campus.

However, its removal seems to have left a gap in the university’s orientation process.

Lynn Mahoney, associate vice president for undergraduate studies and academic advising, aims to fill this gap.

“Dr. Lynn Mahoney, along with others, is working on a new ‘first-year experience’ that will be much more than a short course university orientation,” said Donald Para, provost and senior vice president of CSULB, in an email, alluding to the University 100 program.

Mahoney, who echoed concerns with the program and its former unpopularity, is working to find better results.

Different courses for specific departments seems to be the solution.

“The notion that one course could help every single freshman … we started realizing wasn’t really true,” Mahoney said. “What we are moving toward is starting to figure out what the particular student groups are, particular majors are, and giving them what they need.”

But specific courses may not be the only solution. Different departments may require more than one orientation course.

This new first-year initiative will not be implemented all at once, though.

“We are kind of carving things up and, one at a time, as budget allows, creating programs for specific students,” Mahoney said.

 


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