Connecting with Faculty and Students
The SIUE Experience has numerous events designed to help you build connections beginning with your first day on campus. Throughout the weekend, attending SIUE Experience events will provide you with many opportunities to interact with and learn from, faculty and staff, as well as new and returning students. A few examples of these events include:
Cougar Guide Meetings: Each day you’ll have time with your Cougar Guide, a returning student who will support you and your SIUE Experience group in your transition to SIUE. To learn more, see our page on Cougar Guides.
Cougar Crash Courses: A casual way to connect with Cougar Guides, staff, faculty, and members of our SIUE community as they give us “crash courses” in their unique talents and interests.
Student Parent Social: A social for students with children to meet other students with children. Please feel free to bring your child(ren) with you to any SIUE Experience event!
First-Generation Student Social: Are you the first person in your family to attend college? Join us at this time to be able to connect with other first-generation students.
Commuter Student Social: If you commute to SIUE, this social can help you connect with similar students.
Transfer Meet Up: Transferring schools is a unique experience all students at this social can share.
Graduate Student Panel: Here you’ll have time to get connected with graduate students in a variety of programs and ask questions to current grad students.
Meet your Cougar Connector: Cougar Connectors are mentors for first year students who will provide support after the SIUE Experience by checking in with you throughout your first semester. Students in the University Honors Program will receive different support provided through that department.
In addition, we offer a variety of social events. For more details on our programs, please see the schedule of events.
