First-year U of M students to move in Tuesday night, Wednesday morning for first-ever Welcome Week

25.08.08 - 22:10 ... source : University of Minnesota

... Contacts: Ryan Maus, University of Minnesota News Service, (612) 624-1690, maus@umn.eduMINNEAPOLIS / ST. PAUL ( 8/25/2008 ) -- As the calendar approaches September, it's that time again -- the beginning of a new school year. 2008-09 will get underway with a few different wrinkles for the approximately 5,200 freshman undergraduate students at the University of Minnesota, nearly 4,300 of which will be moving into their on-campus residence halls on Tuesday evening and Wednesday morning. Wednesday marks the start of "Welcome Week," a brand-new, six-day required first-year student orientation program debuting this year.To accommodate for the mid-week start date of Welcome Week, the traditional "move-in day" will now be spread out over two days. Twin Cities metro area students living on campus will start moving into their residen ...» Next (HTML)