New Student and Family Orientation

Links provided below are for the summer 2026 cycle. For additional information, email Abagail Watford at aawatfor@ncsu.edu.

• Summer Orientation Dates
  • Summer 2026 Orientation Dates PDF
• Summer Orientation Program Schedules
  (2026 coming soon; 2025 provided for reference)
  • First-Year Domestic Student and Family
  • Transfer Student and Family
• Orientation Webpages by Population
  • First-Year Domestic Student
  • First-Year Domestic Family
  • Transfer Domestic Student
  • Transfer Domestic Family
  • International Student
  • International Family

Transition Programming

• Welcome Weeks
  • Wolfpack Welcome Weeks (Fall)
    • New Student Convocation
  • Winter Welcome Week (Spring)
• CliftonStrengths for Students
  • Faculty/Staff Information
  • Student Information

Campus Assessment Resources

• Incoming Student Survey Reports, Office of Institutional Strategy and Analysis
• First Term Survey Reports, Office of Assessment, Division of Academic and Student Affairs
• Sophomore Survey Reports, Office of Institutional Strategy and Analysis

Professional Association Resources

• Association for Orientation, Transition and Retention in Higher Education (NODA)
  • NC State University holds an institutional membership for NODA. For information on utilizing the institutional membership, please contact Michael Coombes via email at mrcoombe@ncsu.edu.
• National Resource Center for The First-Year Experience and Students in Transition
• National Institute for the Study of Transfer Students (NISTS)
• Association of Higher Education Parent/Family Program Professionals (AHEPPP)