First-Year Orientation and
Transfer Transition Seminar

Learning Outcomes for Parents

It is our hope that after participating in our Parent Program during Orientation, parents and guests of new students will:

• Gain insight and appreciation of:
- Campus resources and services available to them and their student
- The terminology and language used at SUNY Cortland to better communicate with their student about their experience
- Some of the transitional issues their student may encounter (roommates, diversity, choices, time management, relationships, etc.) and develop some strategies to help their student through these transitions
- Various campus offices and departments

• Begin to understand:
- The academic requirements at SUNY Cortland
- Strategies to help their student succeed academically and socially by exploring their shifting role as a parent
- The changing dynamic of the parental role related to student privacy

• Develop a connection to the Cortland community through:
- Interacting with fellow parents, Orientation Assistants, faculty, and staff
- Meeting with a faculty member within their student’s chosen field of interest
- Beginning to explore the transitions the family structure will experience by having a student in college

• Begin to develop new ways of communicating with their student, now that they no longer live at home

• Feel comfortable and confident in their student’s decision to attend SUNY Cortland