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Michigan State prepares to welcome new faculty, staff, students
 Michigan State University will welcome between 7,250 and 7,350 incoming first-year students, more than 1,500 new graduate students, an expected 1,500 new transfer students, and approximately 175 new tenure system and health program faculty, librarians and administrators to campus this fall.
Incoming freshmen and new students will move into their residence halls beginning Wednesday, Aug. 23. A series of fall welcome events is planned to introduce students to faculty, staff, each other, and the MSU and East Lansing communities.
A highlight of the fall welcome events is the University Welcome on Thursday, Aug. 24, at the Wharton Center for Performing Arts, where first-year students will hear from MSU President Lou Anna K. Simon, Provost Kim Wilcox and Jeanette Walls, author of “The Glass Castle,” this year’s “One Book, One Community” summer reading project.
Also on the schedule are student engagement sessions and a series of “colloquia with your college,” sessions where the new students meet with faculty, staff and fellow students to learn more about academic programs in their colleges.
For a full schedule of fall welcome events, visit www.studentlife.msu.edu/
Among the many resources designed to help students settle into their home away from home is “for your information,” at www.fyi.msu.edu/; it’s a Web site written for and by students, with practical advice and the real scoop on MSU college life. While other universities have similar sites, MSU’s is the first to be written by students.
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