New Student Orientation Parent Session 1: Nuts and Bolts

1. New Student Orientation Parent Session 1

2. Tracy Waal Vice President for Student Life

3. Student Sessions Academics Student Life • Residence/Commuter Life

4. www.mvnu.edu/parents To download this entire PowerPoint presentation and the MVNU Parent Handbook

5. Reading the PowerPoint Everything you see Everything we say

6. Parent Session 1 Nuts and Bolts Parent Session 2 Transitioning Well

7. Required of all new students: Move In Day August 29 New Student Institute August 30-September 1 Classes Begin September 2

8. Parent Session 1 Financial Aid Counseling Student Success Residence Life FERPA Academics

9. Jared Sponseller Director of Student Financial Services

10. STUDENT FINANCIAL SERVICES Student Accounts and Financial Aid

11. STUDENT FINANCIAL SERVICES Student Accounts and Financial Aid Provide services and address questions regarding: • Scholarships • Grants  • Student Loans • Student Account

12. STUDENT FINANCIAL SERVICES Student Accounts and Financial Aid Services include: • Cash checks up to $200 • Process payments to Student Account • Account viewable on student portal • Account determined by current student schedule

13. STUDENT FINANCIAL SERVICES Student Accounts and Financial Aid Payment Options: • Full payment • Cashnet monthly payment plan • Private or parent loan • Combination of payment options

14. STUDENT FINANCIAL SERVICES Student Accounts and Financial Aid Payment Deadline • August 14 • (for fall semester)

15. STUDENT FINANCIAL SERVICES Student Accounts and Financial Aid Communication • All communication from SFS will go to the student’s email • No paper statement or bill will be mailed • Person proxy-gives you access to your student’s information • FERPA applies to account and financial aid information

16. Student Financial Services Financial.Aid@mvnu.edu 740-392-6868 x4520

17. Eric Browning Director of Counseling and Wellness

18. How to help your college student: • Let them be more independent • Help them prepare for failure • Help them develop healthy coping skills • Encourage them to seek help when necessary

19. Counseling and Wellness Wendi.Lahmon@mvnu.edu 740-392-6868 x4602

20. Joy Strickland Assistant Vice President for Student Success and Retention

21. CENTER FOR STUDENT SUCCESS

22. CENTER FOR STUDENT SUCCESS

23. CENTER FOR STUDENT SUCCESS • Supplemental Instruction (SI) • A learning enhancement program that targets traditionally difficult courses and provides regularly scheduled, peer-assisted sessions. • One-on-One Tutoring • An academic assistance program where student employees are trained to tutor peers individually and in groups to master course content for University Core courses. They also assist peers in time management, organization, proofreading, and study strategies.

24. CENTER FOR STUDENT SUCCESS • Student Success Courses • Courses that equip first-time freshman students to make the transition to the academic demands of higher education. These courses are HUM-1013 Discipleship of the Christian Mind with Lab and CSS-1012 Advanced College Success Strategies. • Academic Peer Mentors • Students who are enrolled in the College Success Strategies I and II courses are each assigned an Academic Peer Mentor (APM), an upperclassman who is trained to assist new freshmen in the process of transition.

25. CENTER FOR STUDENT SUCCESS • Learning Labs and Workshops • The Writing Lab and the Math Lab are two focused components of academic support. These learning labs work closely with faculty and academic programs to ensure that tutoring is targeted and seamless with the classroom experience. • Accessibility Services • For disability-related needs that a student may have, please contact the Coordinator of Accessibility Services, Deanna Shira-Tackett, at Deanna.Shira@mvnu.edu, or 740-392-6868 ext.4280.

26. CENTER FOR STUDENT SUCCESS Career Development • Housed in the Center for Student Success in Thorne Library • Provides students with guidance and resources to support them in: • Identifying suitable majors • Planning their careers • Obtaining jobs and internships

27. CENTER FOR STUDENT SUCCESS Career Development • Services and resources include: • Individual advising • Career assessments • Career exploration • Graduate school information • Job postings • Guidance on resumes • Interviewing • Networking

28. CENTER FOR STUDENT SUCCESS Thorne Library • Provides access to: • In-house physical collections (books, periodicals, media, etc.) • OhioLINK resources (books, online databases, eArticles, eBooks, media, etc.) • Study rooms (individual and group) • Extended Hours room for after-hours study • Computer labs • Friendly, helpful library staff

29. CENTER FOR STUDENT SUCCESS MVNU Test Center • Located on the third floor of the Thorne Library Resource Center • Quiet and secure testing environment for students • PearsonVUE and CLEP authorized • Access to computer-based testing • Regular hours during the school year are 8:30am-4:00pm • Students with approved accommodations can begin scheduling at 8:00am • Limited hours during summer and school breaks. • Questions or appointment scheduling, please email: testcenter@mvnu.edu

30. Center for Student Success Joy.Strickland@mvnu.edu 740-392-6868 x4281

31. Josh Kusch Director of Residence Life

32. RESIDENCE LIFE Residence Life exists to support & contribute to the mission of the University by fostering a safe & engaging living-learning environment in which students are welcome into a community that cultivates holistic growth through the development of: • connectedness • responsibility • inclusivity • self-Awareness • missional Living

33. RESIDENCE LIFE Commitment to Community Our Commitment to Community allows us to bring out the best in each other and when practiced, helps shape the Christ-like character toward which we strive.

34. RESIDENCE LIFE Commitment to Community Our Commitment to Community allows us to bring out the best in each other and when practiced, helps shape the Christ-like character toward which we strive. affirmations We love God. We respect others. We believe in personal responsibility.

35. RESIDENCE LIFE Commitment to Community As a Christian liberal arts university, rooted in the historic traditions and beliefs of the Church of the Nazarene, we are committed to: • Practicing honesty in academic pursuits and social relationships • Abstaining from the use and or trafficking of alcoholic beverages, all forms of tobacco and cigarettes (including e-cigarettes), illegal drugs and narcotics and any other substance abuse.

36. RESIDENCE LIFE Commitment to Community As a Christian liberal arts university, rooted in the historic traditions and beliefs of the Church of the Nazarene, we are committed to: • Avoiding entertainment which compromises Christian values, including the viewing of pornographic or promiscuous films or videos, profanity or vulgarity in speech and action and gambling in any form. • Refraining from sexual activity with someone other than one’s spouse. • Completing the university expectations set forth for spiritual formation.

37. RESIDENCE LIFE Structure FRESHMEN HALLS • Pioneer & Galloway: Females • Oakwood: Males UPPERCLASSMEN RESIDENCES Birch, Cedar, Cypress, Elmwood, Maplewood, Redwood Hall, Rosewood, & Spruce Residential Requirement

38. RESIDENCE LIFE Residence Life Team PROFESSIONAL STAFF: 6 RESIDENT DIRECTORS (RDs) • Jacob Booher: Oakwood Hall • Maggie Figueroa: Pioneer Hall • Rachel Dundar: Galloway Hall STUDENT STAFF: 28 RESIDENT ASSISTANTS (RAs) • One RA per floor • One Student Mentor (SM) per floor

39. Residence Life Wendi.Lahmon@mvnu.edu • 740-392-6868 x4602

40. Scott Tarrh Assistant University Registrar

41. FERPA • Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act • Student Consent to Disclosure of Information (form)

42. FERPA Area of Permission for Disclosure • Item A: Academic InformationGrants permission for MVNU personnel to discuss academic issues such as grades, academic status (probation, dismissal, etc.) and class attendance with the individuals listed.  • Item F: Financial InformationGrants permission for Student Accounts and Financial Aid personnel to discuss financial issues such as financial aid, account balances, payments due, etc. with the individuals listed. 

43. FERPA Area of Permission for Disclosure • Item C: Chapel Attendance InformationGrants permission for the Chapel personnel to discuss issues such as spiritual life attendance, credits, etc. with the individuals listed.  • Item H: Housing InformationGrants permission for Residence Life or Student Success personnel to discuss housing information. This can often include information on roommate issues, adjustment to college life, general well-being and patterns of eating/sleeping.

44. FERPA Robin.DePolo@mvnu.edu 740-392-6868 x4530

45. Dr. Yvonne Schultz • Associate Vice President for Academic AdministrationDean, School of the Arts & Humanities

46. Academics • Academic Calendar • Final Exam Policy • December 9-12and April 28-May 1 • (information available at www.mvnu.edu/parents)

47. Academic Affairs Academic.Affairs@mvnu.edu 740-392-6868 x4200

48. Parent Session 2 Begins at 2:55 pm sharp!

49. New Student Orientation Parent Session 2

50. Tracy Waal Vice President for Student Life