Freshman Family Day is a UNM tradition welcoming incoming students and their families to the college community and held the afternoon before the start of fall classes. The event is Sunday, Aug. 24, and is a three-fold. It kicks off at 4 p.m. with a Freshman Convocation in Popejoy Hall, followed by a social celebration and class crawl at the UNM Duck Pond, and a movie at sunset on Johnson Field.
Special Notice: Parents and incoming students attending Sunday's Freshman Family Day are urged to enter the University off of the Stanford, Yale or Martin Luther King Jr. entrances due to the City of Albuquerque's shop and stroll event that will close Central Avenue east of Girard Blvd.
Incoming freshman and their families are introduced to administrators, faculty and staff. Students learn that they are about to embark on an academic adventure designed to prepare them for a rewarding life.
The event also demonstrates that the university partners with the family to ensure student success and that UNM values family and does not seek to separate students from familial, cultural and communal roots.
Freshman Convocation is a ceremonial event held at most colleges and universities. The ceremony, usually a combination of the serious and the light-hearted, provides an opportunity for administration, current students and the Parent Association president to address families.
For more information and to register visit: Freshman Family Day, an event sponsored by the Office of the University Secretary.
Media Contact: Steve Carr, (505) 277-1821; e-mail: scarr@unm.edu
Posted by scarr at August 18, 2008 02:10 PM