ABSTRACT
Orientation of new students to college has for many years in most colleges taken the form of massive get-togethers either during the period just before classes begin or during the summer preceding the freshman year. The ultimate goal of Freshman Seminar is an attitudinal one: to help the entering college student to view himself as an active participant in the process of learning, and not as a passive recipient of an educational system. Entering college students need someone knowledgeable and trustworthy who can help them decipher and process the information they require to make intelligent choices. Most entering college students, academically prepared or not, have not experienced the lecture hall setting as a learning environment. A solid orientation to college regulations and resources has other practical dividends for the college as well. It fosters the appropriate use of helping services, which in many colleges are underutilized because students are unfamiliar with what these services offer.
