About Us
The Center for the First-Year Experience (CFYE) at UW-Madison examines, informs, facilitates, cultivates and enhances the first-year experience at UW–Madison.
CFYE accomplishes this through….
- Campus wide acceptance and integration of identified first-year specific learning goals, drawn from LEAP learning outcomes
- Effective assessment of first-year student learning across the curriculum and co-curriculum
- Forging strong departmental relationships with large first-year student enrollment academic departments and tutorial services in an effort to enhance the first year classroom learning environment
- Leading campus wide first-year initiatives, as appropriate. (current examples: review of first and second year advising, e-portfolio)
- Contribution to first-year experience research and scholarship
- Leading a summer orientation program which effectively introduces students to UW–Madison
- Creating common and meaningful welcoming experiences during a student’s first week on campus
- Cultivating a campus-wide first-year experience program during the academic year though collaboration and partnerships
- Providing new students with relevant information in a developmentally appropriate manner
- Cultivation of new courses and programs for first year students (ex: new freshman seminars, new orientation programs, new welcome programs)
- Coordinating and teaching Counseling Psychology 125
- Enhancing the First-Year Conference and Teaching and Learning Symposium