Insight and Ideas to Improve Orientation
Daniel Hastings
Dean for Undergraduate Education
Chris Colombo
Dean for Student Life
Orientation and REX require an effort by the entire campus to welcome our new students to MIT. That’s why the Review Committee on Orientation (RCO), which spent the last year studying how we integrate incoming students, consisted of students, faculty, and staff—people from across the community coming together to study a vital community event.
This spring, the RCO presented its final report to us...
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