First-year University Scholars who reside on campus will be co-located on the same hall in the Honors College Learning Community (LC), and all first-year Scholars will take the 1-credit UNIV 160 University Scholars Transition Seminar led by the director of the program in their first semester.
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- Provide guidance and support as students transition from high school
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- Encourage students to engage in college life and the Mason community
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- Assist in building academic skills, and familiarize new college students with resources available to them at the university
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- Engage with students from other backgrounds and different experiences, and consider the variety of identities within their cohort and themselves,
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- Produce and refine resumes and cover letters,
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- Identify opportunities on and off campus that they would like to pursue
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- Meet with upper-level Scholars and program alumni to envision what might be possible in the coming four years,
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- Reflect on their intentions and purpose as a college student and student leader,
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- Contemplate the responsibility and opportunity of their position as scholarship recipients.
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