August 30, 2011 · Leave a Comment
Photos by Amanda Palczynski
Dr. Doug Hastad
I think the best advice I could offer any freshman at this point in time is one, don’t be reluctant to get engaged in orientation activities, those are extremely important. Two, get to know as many first year students as possible, because, clearly, they will become your support group and they will become your friends. Three, get engaged in the community. We live in a nice neighborhood, we are neighbors to all the surrounding residents, get to know them, and certainly get to know downtown Waukesha. And then, don’t miss any classes.
[It] takes two to deliver on the Carroll experience. One is the institution needs to make a commitment to students, which it will do. Secondly, students need to make a commitment to the institution. It’ll work if that happens.
The Carroll University Box Office sells tickets to the music and theatre events listed in the Arts Calendar and sometimes to major concerts and community events on campus.
The Box Office is located in the Campus Center next to the info desk and is open M-F from 8am-4:30pm except during breaks and holidays. Transition to having the box office staffed by student workers at info desk will take place over the course of this year.
Carroll students each receive a FREE ticket to listed events when they present their PiONEer Card.
Stop at the box office for your ticket at least a few days before the performance.
If any freshman are interested in studying abroad, most students go there junior year, which, to most freshmen, seems really far off. The sooner you plan, the sooner you’ll know what classes you need to take, estimated cost and things like that. So, I just tell all freshmen to get in and start planning right away. Planning is the biggest thing. Even though you’re just here and you’re figuring things out, your junior year will come up quickly.
[Our office is] changing a little bit. Going forward we’re hiring someone to do recruitment and work with study abroad programs, so I’ll be really focusing on international students on admission and then the development side when they’re here.
Go to the student organization fair so that they can learn more about the opportunities on campus and take advantage of the opportunities.
Another piece of advice I would give for students, start thinking about their experiences on campus. Start thinking now for that amazing study abroad experience. We offer a lot of different opportunities for freshmen. There will be two week opportunities as well as semester, going all over the world. At this point, this is the time when they can start dreaming and thinking about what they’d like to do. And come see us earlier rather than later so that we can help try and put that into motion and work with them to find the program and the opportunity that fits their needs, their interests and really gives them the chance to explore.
We do a variety of things here. We provide opportunities for students to study off-campus, especially internationally. We also work with the international students who are studying here and provide opportunities and programs where students can connect and interact. One of those places is in the Diversity Lounge, so I encourage students to make use of the Diversity Lounge.
I’m the director of international education. My responsibilities are to direct the activities of the office and the various activities.
Welcome to a new academic year, and a huge Carroll welcome to all of the new students!
Advice to students:
My advice would be to “be engaged.” Commit yourself to an ideal that is important to you and inspires you. Academics are clearly very important, but find something, in addition, that you are passionate about and devote some of your energy towards this ideal. That may be a student organization, an internship, a volunteer organization, or something else. Take the time to invest in something that you can learn a lot about and inspire yourself and others to achieve greatness in that.
My role:
Director of Leadership Engagement and Associate Director of Student Activities
My office is in the Student Organization Office
I work with the over 50 student organizations, CU@Nite Weekend Programming, the Travel Series, the Leadership Series, Commuter Events and Greek Life.
I encourage everyone to stop down to the student organization office to say hello and introduce yourselves to the Student Activities student worker staff and me.
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