New Graduate Student Orientation  

Orientation Toast

New grad students, welcome! 

Please join us for an orientation to NAU and graduate study, a chance to meet other students and faculty in your program, a resource fair, and door prizes. Breakfast and lunch are provided. 

Those with assistantships are required to stay for the afternoon for an introduction to teaching and research assistantship tools and methods. 

When and where

Date: Tuesday, August 27, 2013
       8am - 1pm  (all students)
       8am - 3:45pm  (graduate assistants)
Where: Du Bois Center Ballroom, Bldg #64 on the campus map
Parking lots #64 and #66 are available for orientation parking

Agenda and orientation materials

Click here for a copy of the orientation agenda. There will be many presentations to choose from, including (tentative):

  • Create Your Future Now
  • Things I Wish I'd Known from the Start
  • Managing Your Budget in a “Super-Size Me” Economy 
  • Protecting Human Participants in Your Research and Classroom Projects
  • Competing in a Global Economy
  • Library Research Skills for Graduate Students
  • Organizing Your Electronic Life
  • Managing Stress and Enjoying Graduate School
  • Getting Off to a Good Start as a Graduate Assistant
  • On Teaching and Student Success
  • Welcome from the Graduate Student Government (GSG)