Newly Admitted Students
Welcome and Congratulations!
Checklist for New Admitted Students
- Decide on Your Offer of Admission
- Respond to Your Offer of Admission (deadline in parentheses)
- Informatics (set in letter of admission)
- Residential & Online MLIS - please see your admission letter for link (May 1)
- Day MSIM (April 15)
- Exec MSIM (set in letter of admission)
- PhD (April 15)
- Coordinate Financial Aid
- Learn about Seattle
- Find Housing
- Apply to Childcare Assistance Program by 5/28/2010
- Get a UWNetID for UW systems access
- Get Required Immunizations
- Get a Husky Card/Student ID
- Register for Classes
- Pay Tuition:
- Due 10/15/2010 for State-based programs (Residential MLIS, PhD, and Informatics)
- Due upon registration for fee-based programs (MSIM, Online MLIS)
- Attend Program Orientation (except BS Informatics students)—see details below
- Attend All iSchool Orientation and Fair, 9/24/2010—see details below
- Attend iWelcome Week events 9/27–10/1/2010
- Attend classes beginning 9/29/2010
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Check this page for enrollment updates and schedule changes for orientation events.
Questions?
If you have remaining questions after reading the material here, please contact the iSchool's Office of Student Services.
iSchool Student Services
Student to Student
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All iSchool New Student Welcome and Fair
Friday, September 24, 2010
Check-In / 1:00-1:30 pm / Room TBA
Welcome Session / 1:30-2:30 pm / Room TBA
Resource Fair / 2:30-4:00 pm / Suzallo Library Cafe, Room 1
The all iSchool New Student Welcome and Fair provides new students with the opportunity to hear from Dean Harry Bruce and a number of other faculty and current students. This event is designed to welcome new iSchool students from all four programs (MLIS, MSIM, PhD Information Science, and BS Informatics). Immediately following the orientation, the iSchool Fair will feature UW and iSchool organizations and student resources. Faculty will be available to discuss their research areas, and student groups and other campus groups will host information tables. Refreshments served at the Resource Fair.
iWelcome Week events
Monday, September 27 thru Friday, October 1, 2010
iWelcome Week is the iSchool's annual set of events to help orient all new iSchool students as well as welcome back the returning ones. Events are posted on the main iWelcome Week Calendar.
Program Orientations and Program Events
PhD in Information Science
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BS in Informatics
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Thursday, September 23, 2010
2:00 pm/Check in & New Student Photos
2:00 pm - 4:00 pm/Orientation
Room TBD
The PhD Orientation event will help orient new PhD students to program requirements and resources and welcomes new students to the iSchool.
Thursday, September 23, 2010
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm/Reception
MGH 420
Faculty, staff and current PhD students welcome incoming PhD students.
Attendance is mandatory for all incoming PhD students.
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Small Group Orientations
You will sign up for a small group orientation when you receive your offer of admission. These orientations will meet over the course of the summer, and will be by sign-up only.
Attendance at one small group orientation is mandatory for all incoming BS in Informatics students.
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Day MSIM
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Executive MSIM
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Thursday, September 23, 2010
8:30 am/Check in & New Student Photos
9:00 am - 1:00 pm/Orientation
MGH 420
Basic program requirements will be covered and student handbooks will be handed out.
Attendance is mandatory for all incoming Day MSIM students.
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Friday, September 24, 2010
5:00 pm - 7:30 pm/Check in & New Student Photos/Orientation
MGH 420
New Student Orientation for new Exec MSIM Students. Basic program requirements will be covered and student handbooks will be handed out.
Saturday, September 25, 2010
Exec MSIM Leadership Seminar
9:00 am - 4:00 pm
Location TBA
This workshop will offer an opportunity for Executive MSIM students to learn about critical challenges facing organizations as they engage in the implementation of systems designed to capture, store and share mission critical information. The workshop will focus on how information managers can enable and direct organizational efforts to build sustainable and effective systems, both from a policy and technology perspective. This event will provide an opportunity for Executive MSIM students to engage with their peers, interact with Northwest executives, and gain practical leadership experience in information management.
Attendance is mandatory for all incoming Exec MSIM students.
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Residential MLIS
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Online MLIS Orientation Week
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Friday, September 24 thru Saturday, September 25, 2010
Required two-day orientation
Sept 24/Friday = 8:30 am to 4:00 pm
Sept 25/Saturday = 9:30 am to 12:30 pm
MGH 389
Each fall we host an orientation session specifically for new residential MLIS students to introduce some of the requirements, guidelines and other "nuts and bolts" of the MLIS program. The 2010 orientation will run over a two day period: Friday morning will be the Residential MLIS Orientation, Friday afternoon the iSchool New Student Welcome and Fair, and Saturday morning will be a session on the MLIS Culminating Experience options as well as Directed Fieldwork.
Attendance on both September 24 and 25 is required for all incoming Residential MLIS students.
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Wednesday, September 22 thru Saturday, September 25, 2010
Required four-day orientation
View the Online MLIS Orientation Week Calendar for more details, including times sessions run each day.
Each fall the newly admitted Online MLIS students gather together in Seattle for a face-to-face orientation and series of workshops to acclimatize them to life as online student learners. More information on events taking place over this four-day timeframe will be posted online and provided to all new students. After this week, Online students return home and start taking courses online. After the Orientation Week, Online MLIS students return home to begin their courses online.
Attendance is mandatory all four days for all incoming Online MLIS students.
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