- Title
- Speed dating and lollipops: the development of an orientation program, by continuing and graduating students and its unintended consequences
- Creator
- Cowley, Kym
- Relation
- 11th Pacific Rim First Year in Higher Education Conference 2008. 11th Pacific Rim First Year in Higher Education Conference 2008: Conference Proceedings (Hobart, Tas. 30 June - 2 July, 2008)
- Relation
- http://www.fyhe.com.au/past_papers/papers08/FYHE2008/content/html/sessions.html
- Publisher
- QUT Publications
- Resource Type
- conference paper
- Date
- 2008
- Description
- This session outlines and discusses the development of an innovative orientation program, developed by selected continuing and graduating students at the Faculty of Business and Law, University of Newcastle, for commencing students in 2008. The primary objective of the program was to provide an interactive orientation experience, utilizing the creative talents of existing students from the faculty. Twenty-five student leaders undertook to develop specific activities for commencing students that were program and course specific. An unintended consequence of the program was the extent to which early social relationships emerged between commencing students as an outcome of these shared experiences. A discussion of the program, its development and preliminary evaluation, provides an opportunity for critically evaluating the extent to which we seek to create increasingly sophisticated informational orientation experiences for commencing students and whether all we really need to do is to provide "Speed Dating and Lollipops ".
- Subject
- orientation programs; law students; business students; undergraduates
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/802884
- Identifier
- uon:6238
- Identifier
- ISBN:9781741072419
- Language
- eng
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