The Sewanee Field Guide

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Not everyone can be included in meat shiro. Virtually he was with us last week in the chat, but as promised he's gonna hop on an contribute, which I'm really excited about for this money field guide. Uhm, so if you I'm recognizing lots of names, so I guess it sounds like most of you are familiar or have been kind of on this journey with the Tiger tips. So we're on Tiger tip #10, which is the last Tiger tip because a lot of you are heading into senior year.

Whether you started school, you know in person or remote or you're gearing up for that. I know that's different, you know, kind of across the country of one. You typically go back to school, but you kind of that end of your summer journey of using your summer to help you with the college application process. And so we're kind of culminating this with this money field guides are really diving into Swanee specifics, and next week we're having a virtual case study, so I will describe more about that towards the end.

But that will kind of put a lot of these, especially those earlier Tiger tips about, you know the essay an what you put in your com app. It's going to be really an exercise of how we, as in an opposite admission, use a lot of that and how we review it. So that's on our website. If you would like to tune in next Thursday for that event, put that on your radar so one note it at the end. But just so you're aware. So I'm going to mute myself for a moment and let Sharrow introduce himself, and then we will get started.

So how you doing my name is Sarah Burnette. I am a new counselor here in the office on some just passing my one month mark. So I've I recognize a few of your names. I've either emailed you or sent you one note, but I'm actually also a graduate of the college. I graduated in 2018, took a brief little break to go to Graduate School, and I returned back here to the mountain just about two weeks ago. So I was working remotely up until then.

I was just chatting about um RIT, so I think as long as my computer volume is down, we we shouldn't have that echoey sound for you guys as we kind of create this really. I guess functionality is a panel so we'll both chime in on most of our slides. So before we get started I want to mention the field guide again. I'd hold it up in recession before but a lot of you guys especially as rising seniors or seniors now have gotten this in the Mail. Hopefully you've received it.

We do send this to all seniors that are on our mailing list. So active on our list you should be getting a hard copy of this. I'm going to chat in the link to this booklet so if you've misplaced it or did it make it you haven't gotten one at this time. It is. We have the PDF document on line through a platform called issue. So I just chatted the link in your welcome to save that. Or for anyone watching this retroactively if you want to look back at the chat.

And in reference, this morning field guide.

So That being said, Today is not. We're not just going to read it to you or rehash the field guide, but guide you, um, guide you through it and then really elaborate in some ways of how you can use that as a resource. Or just note some very important in Swanee specific items that then you can use the field guide and or our website in different departments to dig in based on your own interest to learn a little bit more about this place in this community.

Alright, so the first part of the field guide? Um again, if you have that link up or you spend some time reading it, it is a really unique print piece that we send out. So it's it's pretty hefty, but we really try to funnel that information specifically to senior, so we're pretty light on some of our mailings. Until you get the field guide, and so it's meant to be sort of this one stop shop, but one of the first things you see when you open that weather electronically or the physical copy.

Is all about academics at Swanee, so you know. Obviously we trust that you can find that online. Alot of you have done be online information session or we did the Tiger tips wanting session about applying to Swanee and so you've seen that slide of what our academic programs. So going beyond that and kind of what you could digest in the field guide. Want to spend a little time unpacking again? Like what does the liberal arts entail? What does that mean and how does that work? Particularly when swannies curriculum?

So obvious you can see here in these three bullet points an I've said before to think about it. Really in those three three main components. So if you're coming in in that first two years, that's really your first third, so that General Education coursework where you're like it says on the screen establishing those fundamental competencies and knowledge. And again when the next slide will elaborate a little bit more, but you're getting that liberal view in the sense if you are exposed to a lot of topics you're not coming in in the subjugated sense.

Um, in kind of one Ave that is really the crux of, you know of what is the heart of a liberal arts education? An approach.

Uhm, you often hear the term general education or Gen Ed requirements. Regardless of what type of school you look at. But again, like what what's packed into those Gen eds. What are the expectations and how are they executed? As far as like?

How do you interact in the classroom and check those off of your list? Can look different school to school in particular in the liberal arts.

Once you've done that, so it's 1 E again, we really expect that students declare major, typically the end of sophomore year or majors major, minor or whatever that might. That path might look like, but that is at that point you're really transitioning into becoming an expert in that Department in in your field and within your interest, so that's the major.

And then building out that last third is it? It might be a minor or it says elective courses. It's supplementing your major coursework. Anagen educates general education, courses you've taken to really round out what you want your academic experience to look like. So again, like it says, exploring a new academic territory or really giving you that balance or just like even enjoyment of you know I'm an economics major, but I really always wanted to take that art history class or I wanted to take that photography course.

They are able to do that and build out some of those. I shouldn't say competing interests with those dual interests that you have that don't necessarily have to compete, right? You can explore both of those within the liberal arts.

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No, I'm asking you touched on it all pretty well. I think one thing that I like a lot about the liberal arts. It's like things that you can explore all those different things and find out why it complements another major and so particularly also with swannies class structure or classes are very small and so you're not only getting the opportunity to explore other disciplines, but within those classes you have people from other disciplines in them as well. So you're gaining additional perspective on whatever your chosen major.

Maybe and so even in some of your biology classes, you may have some art majors in there as well, and so you're getting those additional perspectives that are helping. Like Taylor said, compliment that particular area which once you reach your junior or senior year that allows you to say like, OK, yeah, so maybe I want to take an art history class because I remember in my sophomore year there was this art history major and a really good insight into this particular field. And so I think that's a really unique opportunity that is very much tailored towards the liberal arts.

Because you have the opportunity to jump around and take different classes as opposed to being funneled soliant biology classes or solely into business classes or something like that.

Yeah, that's an excellent point because you really part of coming into the bards environment or College in general is that you want to be exposed to that dialogue? Uhm, so if it looks funny that shower and I were looking into our webcams were also looking at each other, so we're we're socially distance from each other in our conference room. So similar to last week, so it's kind of I want to like look at him and not an affirming way, but he is talking to you on screen, alright?

So again, these are going to be really hallmarks of a liberal arts education, but these are really particular learning objectives that Swanee has identified of.

You know why is it important that students do have that general education experience? And from that, what do we want you to gain? You know what are we trying to round out and actually achieve by having you take a course is across the board. So again, not everyone will have the same exact general education coursework list. There are built in options there, your science course, so you might need to take a general education course in the science Department or in the Sciences, but for one student that could be geology.

For one of you could be chemistry for another student could be psychology, so you also have option within that particular requirement, so remember that it's not a one size fits on how you even navigate general education coursework.

But these eight learning objectives really happen in your first two years, obviously. Hope they continue as you further responding education. But this is the foundation that we want to give every Sony student. So some of this is in the field guide. This might be a little more in depth. You can read more on our website if you're looking at general education requirements, but this will kind of synthesize. Obviously the directly list the eight objectives and I'll walk through those just briefly. But when you're thinking about reading closely so.

Often times when we talk about liberal arts were teaching you or you might be re learning, or maybe sometimes unlearning how you're reading and writing and how you are, you know.

Being informed and then how you're reflecting on that, and so that's really when we say we want to be objective of reading closely. That's very important across all disciplines in fields that you feel empowered that you know how to do that and then had a question what you're reading come up with informed responses, reflect problem solved in that manner.

When we talked about understanding the arts, you might say I have. I don't have an artistic bone in my body. Uhm, you know I'm coming with this direct path and I don't for see it, uh, having anything to do with arts.

Well, we sort of approach it as the arts are really built into every day life, right? And so we want you to think about how does our influence just the aesthetic around you. How does that influence like your imagination or your insight into how you view things? And so again, not a one size fits all approach, but that will look.

That will be included in your curriculum at some point.

Seeking meaning might seem pretty straightforward, but again, we want you to think about the human experience and So what does it mean to I think to showers point like sit down and have dialogue with peers and to ask questions and think about things in a new way.

You know, and I think for for some of these this might be exactly what you're looking for in Swanee, and these are really exciting to others. Might seem a little far reaching, or they might seem intimidating to you, but you know, that's why they're learning objectives there. Going to be built in. You can going to be guided through a lot of these. You're not going to be expected to know exactly what these mean or come in and say, Oh look in this course. I'm seeking meaning, or I'm exploring past and present.

That will really be, I think, articulated in through a conversation of oh look, you're actually doing that work already. You're doing that in in executing this syllabus, or what we need to do in this class.

And so exploring passed in President I won't go through all these in in great laborious detail, but.

Once the curiosity around society and how we view things, uhm, you know what institutions are central to our society to our community here at Swanee and then the greater community rats domestically or for looking at it in a global sense.

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Final entry level. Traditional like Jeanette. Far as like you taking English wine satisfy, you know you're really closely Jeanette requirement, but there's so many different classes that have like these attributes attached to them, and so there's a lot of different ways to be flexible into like mold your pants and really kind of going through what we talk about. Really look like. Liberal arts is just exploring different things in different fields. Within that first stage of like those for two years of satisfying your general education requirements.

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Yeah, and I feel like the last four bullet points are maybe a little self explanatory, but I won't leave them totally appear imagination I guess in some ways.

For observing, experimenting and modeling, that's really going to be that sort of scientific qualitative you, so again.

How can you assess like the validity of a scientific claim? Do you have that scientific literacy? So again, maybe you say I don't really have that interest in stem, but we still want to engage you in those conversations that you feel confident. If you could understand how that might be in a related to what you are interested in studying and have that competency.

Comprehending cross culturally to understand.

You know, I think other cultures in have that comprehension and have that open dialogue and then to think about different text that you might be reading. So the context behind that, whether it's written text. Again, it might be art so that visual context. Or is it anecdotes that had been passed down so that oral context and comprehension? That's really important. That, again, you're not just living right here in Swanee your understanding that a lot of these are interrelated. So then it kind of connects to the past and present.

Yes, you will learn to write at Swanee writing intensive course. We're getting that kind of built-in into lots of classes and into your whole experience with support, so will go into a lot of those academic resources as we move forward. But do you feel like I don't want to write intensively one? I've been kind of marinade on that. I think that is a huge form of communication that we champion here at Swanee, and we want you to feel confident in your skills as a writer and using that to communicate effectively.

So again, you don't have to know what all these really entail or feel 100% confident. That's why you're coming here or why you're going to school and continuing education. You're continuing your education, so we will make sure that you're able to write effectively here and then rounding out. Just I think your balance as as a human and as a student of physical education and Wellness and so that takes Cape fur in different ways for students.

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Yeah, so I think if you like attended any other sessions or like, just flip through the field guide and yourself. I think one thing that becomes evidence community throughout our campus is one thing that we emphasize a lot based on our location based on the size of our student body. But I think one thing that really binds our community together is our honor code. And so this image here is from your first couple of days here as a freshman student, you will sign an honor pledge.

Especially saying that while you're here as a spawning student, that you will not lie or not, she will not steal.

In any campus activities, and I think that's really important because it just builds trust and it helps to solidify those character traits that we hold really dear and that we want to have. Like in our community. And so it's because of the honor code that when you go to the library you can leave your laptop like etiquette study carolanne, go to the coffee shop a couple of minutes down the road and then come back and it's left untouched. Or similarly you can just leave your backpack line on the line somewhere. Go to a class and then come back and it still.

There you know these aren't uncommon things and something that people come to expect, you know, once they're here. But also think is interesting. Just because the honor code it is such an important part of life here in Swanee. But it's not something that's localized to Swanee. It's character traits that build out beyond the gates here and so, for instance, are career services center. We have a lot of different internships that are sponsored by Swanee alums, and they specifically want other Swanee students to participate in those.

Internships and that's partly due in fact because of the relationships that people developed here, and they know that they've gained these certain traits, like through things like the honor code and so they know that when they were getting us one each student. If anything, they're getting someone who's on it. Someone who's trustworthy in someone that they can trust to go out and live by the same types of values that we have here on campus. But throughout in the professional world as well.

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Too, and I need a lot of times we get ask why do you have an honor code? So I think to shower shower is explained a lot of the data of why we have that and what why it's meaningful. And there's sort of this base understanding two of its really to uphold the value of the work that you're putting into your Swanee Education. So if you are coming and putting forth your best effort, right? And putting in that work to produce work that is uniquely your own?

In the classroom. So again, really not academic lens. Then you know when you graduate, what that means and so kind of keeping that integrity there. We also do a lot of education around, like the concept of Honor and how that's not often understood the same way by everyone, so like that may be thinking of crosscut of cross cultural understanding the concept of Honor can differ.

Uhm, and I think your understanding of what that might look like in an academic setting. So some of you might be coming from schools with an honor code that you already sign, but this might be really new concepts, so know that there is some education around that, and this is really upheld by you and your peers, so there are no faculty or administrators on the Honor Council. But if there is a breach of the honor code or possible infraction, and then that is really assessed by your peers so.

I I LinkedIn honor code if you want to dig into it a little bit more, but it really. I hope I would sure like I just not meant to be confining or intimidating. It is to to really celebrate what you can do on your own volition socially and in the classroom and as a community member.

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So the office of global citizenship, and so again, we're kind of keeping to the table of contents in here, but providing a little more context. So this is we've said before it's only loves acronyms, so this would be the OG C Office of global citizenship, and they have, I would say, many hats that they wear an in a lot of ways that they support students, so one that might seem perhaps the most obvious to some is yes they are. They are the main office providing international student support on that daily basis.

As far as recruitment, getting to campus, we work very closely with them is the office of admission. But then in that students four year tenure, you know whether it's it's visa support in applications.

This advising on how to get to Swanee or how to make that adjustment that International Student Orient orientation. How do you if you're coming from abroad or internationally and you aren't bringing a vehicle, then how do you engage with this place in this running community so they are a huge driver there and then, I think.

The way that we approach it as a community is that's not the one stop shop or the one office that is solely responsible for international student support that should be intertwined, interwoven into how our whole community operates, but that is the go to, you know if a student has a question they have very clear structure and support there.

BOGC also will advise and support through the study abroad process, so from the preparation like discernment phase application, prepping to go and then when you come back right how do you have you spent a semester away? How do you come back and kind of find your place in this one in community and hit the ground running while you're processing all the academic experience and a set experience of being abroad in a place that was different for you?

So they will manage that I'm gonna link that in as well because there's a neat tool on their web page where you can see, uhm.

Where students got where it shouldn't have gone so kind of an interactive map and more facts and figures about the opposite global citizenship. And then also that specific study abroad tab.

Uhm, but also when you think about swannies global reach, an kind of the lens that we want you to think in, or you know through I should say is you might be going abroad to study for that semester. Or you might really be interested in international research. You might have an internship that you know, is it in the domestic you S you might be wanting to have an international karere right? And so again to share his point. You might be working not only with the office of global citizenship.

But also within your major also within services you know what's that long term goal. And then we also have international service learning and so if you think of an outreach trip, so in partnership with the office of civic engagement, they're not. You know, we want to support students and kind of have you in that multifaceted way of here's the support in ways that you can think about going abroad or having international experience. It's not just confined to.

You know UH-11 semester experience or the experience of an international student on our campus, so that is actually in office very close to the office of admission. It's central campus, really engaging staff members, so I would encourage you if you have questions there to dig into their section of the field guide or website as well.

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I've tried to include some photos on these slides, but this one is just packed with content. Uhm, so I feel like sharing will probably popcorn, but I I'll kick us off on the writing center or kind of oriented how these are listed. So the first three bullet points are going to be more of those academic resources, so not confined to just those three. But if you think of like image in earlier, the writing intensive, really fundamental aspect that we want you to experience is this one a student? Well, then that might require some peer editing.

Or a review from the Writing Center you know? How do you even outside of the classroom in the English Department or across other departments? Where do you get that advice in and kind of workshop? The what you're turning in to the writing center is a phenomenal resource. We have our Center for speaking and listening, and so that's where we really work on communication and public speaking. You can actually go in and kind of in actual soundbooth, talk out loud and then review that and process it if you need to give a presentation.

Um and so that's that's hard work to do, right? Like even as professionals that it's intimidating, but hearing yourself communicate, getting advice, normalizing that, and so you feel really confident. That's what we want to do. And so those are both in central campus, in our library, and then our language Resource Center within the liberal arts, and within our general education requirements. We do look for students to.

To go through and pursue foreign language here it's fine. And so again, what resources are there to make sure you're successful in doing that? That can be challenging for soon, as it was for me, and so I utilized the language Resource Center and I went for Department of tutoring and then a peer tutor within the French Department and so know that that exists. You're on campus and you that's included in tuition fees and student student fees, and so all of these resources are built in for you to use, and so even now, before you apply, like.

We want you to know about that here. It's funny and then normalized normalized utilizing those resources.

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And I will talk briefly about integrated advising before just kind of differentiating created advising in academic advising. They are very much the same when you think of who, who do I go to for academic support? Uhm, so maybe you have your schedule of classes and you have professors teaching those classes. Yes, you can go to them and you create relationships there. But as far as it, particularly in your first year as a Swanee student, we really approach advising in that integrated sense.

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In around, well rounded way, uhm, there supporting academically but also in that transition peace and some social emotional support as well. Again, like you no matter how prepped it excited you are for college like it's a transition and so the integrated advising will really play a role in your first year and then when we think of academic advising, that's really once you can have you gotten your academic feet under you and you have that sense of direction as you go into your major, you may opt into. I have. I loved this class or.

This Department of this particular particular faculty member I would like for them to be my academic advisor as I move forward, so that is a little more targeted compared to integrate advising of that to your meeting with for your major or majors.

So hopefully that happen again. As always, chattin questions throughout as you have them, but share. Do you feel like you could talk about office hours, yeah?

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Office hours are not necessarily within that same norm of like the traditional like business day, so it's not uncommon for spawning student to meet with her professor at a coffee shop or have dinner with a defector or few seek those external flexes too, like gaining different information about whether it's a paper or it's just you're really interested in. What that professor is working on, and so we won't thing. When I was here I thought was interesting was job opportunities.

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Yeah so and we say Wellness Center it. I'll show you picture very well in this comment that's opening up, but it is. It really functions as a center and so these are different offices. Kind of under the same hub. You might access both of them. You might one more than the other, or I think there are some students who who don't ever access these right, but our hope would be that you do and especially you know health services. That's going to be your main kind of like if you think of an urgent care or clinic, right? If you are not feeling well then that's here on campus.

A man then caps, so again more acronyms like share mentioned, those are going to be services that are included for you as a student when extra fees might come up. If you're referred out. So if you need more long-term treatment, then or you know kind of off campus or something. If you ever referred to accounts are in or therapist in Chattanooga or Murfreesboro area. Again support to do that and make those connections. But as far as like short term treatment or managing medication or just having a general sense of well being.

At all included here on campus, uhm, and then our student Accessibility services. It actually used to be under the Wellness Center, but it's now manage their Deans, Dean of students office. So that is anywhere when you think of Accessibility services that could be accommodations, right? So dyslexia, you need to have that conversation and connect with faculty members about how you're an operating the classroom. It could be physical Accessibility, you know what type of residence Hall do you need to to be in? And so.

That is really kind of, especially as an incoming student. We want you to know that as applicants, but then once you think about maybe coming to Swanee that is in office, he was going to work collaboratively across campus to make sure you know those services are available for what you need, even down to like Swanee dining of allergens and accommodations there.

Um, any community resources live safe app. If you think of Wellness in a in a more broad reaching sense of like also it with safety and we do have our Swanee Police Department, we have the live safe app where you can report emergencies, track your walk home. All of that. So yes, we are a very tight knit community in a rural campus, but we're we're also want to take every precaution that we can to to be safe, so hopefully that gives you kind of a well rounded.

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Very recently of our new Wellness comments, and so if you happen on campus before, this is central campus off University Ave right next to our dining Hall Mcclurg, and so this is going to include again health services. It's going to include those counseling services. Will be a bookstore. Outposts are Swanee bookstores in the Swanee village so kind of in our downtown, but there will be kind of an outpost there for notebook snacks in Swanee swag that will be central campus free to to have.

And then there is a Wellness and fitness component too. And so we have our Fowler Fitness Center. But there's also going to be workout equipment specifically for students in the longest comments as well.

So that is opening gosh, probably in the next couple of weeks, so I haven't even showered. I haven't been there, we were assuming around at the other day, but we haven't been in the in the grand opening.

Alright, so again, lots of content on his side. So in the sake of time will probably will kind of power through these, but.

Obviously part of the field guide, right? It's guiding you through the domain through this mountain. If you get all those play on words, but you're going to be living here, right? So you obviously probably want some orientation there, um, and shower. and I could probably talk. We probably spend a whole hour talking about residential life that's funny, but um, again you. This is a huge part of this funny experience. Uhm, up 98% of students live on campus and that's all for eight years. So if you think back of last week if you were on that session, we kind of showed you those aerial shots of Swanee.

You didn't see any big like neighborhoods or apartment complexes, so the idea of living off campus doesn't really like it. Doesn't translate exactly here, and so yes, you could live off campus, but it's not in that sense if you're not living downtown. Renting an apartment, especially for first year students, we want campus, and so this will just give you a brief overview. I definitely encourage you to utilize the field guide in that sense in dig through if you want to look at all 19 residence halls and.

Look at their their haul flag, so that's what this picture is. An kind of the their their motto, or you know, the layout of the room, all of that.

Then we'll let you do that on your own volition. Uhm, but breaking down like ways that you could live here. The most common right would be a resident. Also, when you think of like the dorm, right? So we got him residence halls. I guess we would. The dorm is kind of like I guess, antiquity.

More traditional like yes, you're you have your your room and the Hall Bath in your room in a sweet and you're living with a roommate and and you're all coexisting that is. That is the most typical, especially first your living experience here in swine.

We also do you have seen houses much? Again, you can find more on line about but the houses they fluctuate. Your two year they are what they sound like of a group of students that are living together, typically about four or five students up to 12 Max living around a common theme or interest or like purpose. And so it is still supported through the office of residential life and it still on campus. So you're not. You're still supported in that way.

But it's typically in a residential home or town home here on campus, and usually associated some programming errors. So like one of our team houses, the healthy Hut, right? So that was for this past academic year, then that is some programming about healthy living and cooking. And how do you? How do you navigate that as a college student in particular, like cooking for one and sustainable practices? So that might have been some some thematic rate programming, and they've done.

The masses will also include our our Greek houses, which are typically pretty small and then you can see here our language houses so French, German, Italian, Russian, Spanish or the current language houses that we have on campus for theme houses and language houses, this wouldn't be something that you would be applying for as a first year incoming student, but for you to know about the Mets won Ian, maybe sophomore through senior year, hear something you might want to get engaged in.

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That language Department and so, for instance, what the Spanish help you'll be writing an application in Spanish to most likely the chair of the Spanish Department, and similarly with the French for the German friends house or the German House, and so forth.

And so.

And so I just put it in the League 2 theme houses, so I don't want to direct you to the website without giving you a resource, so that will show you a little bit more information. Again, like give you the parameters of what a theme houses, what their purpose, and kind of what they're centered around. And then I'm also going to put in a link. It's sort of a photo essay, and so it's about belonging. It's Ronnie, and so it highlights some students, faculty, staff, so anything of living and learning here. I just allowed. I love that.

It's kind of their config yet, so I love them. If you want to take a look at that after the session.

Alright, so again you kind of see our themes. You know living belonging if we want to talk about dining right? Especially on a campus that is, is kind of nestled here in this very specific.

I want you to have like access to fresh, sustainable food. Access to a menu that changes, uhm, so what's included in the student meal plan? What's here on campus. Whether it's associated with the University or more of a local dining option. Independently owned and operated. So we'll walk through a couple of these. The student meal plans. So when you think of of college, this kind of stepping back, I guess from Swanee that's that's a huge topic an.

Usually kind of a hefty piece of maybe the financial conversation of OK. I'm opting into this college University. am I living on campus and then I'm going to eat dining on campus. So it's funny. That's all really looped and kind of decision is really made for you, right? That is a service that we provide in this built into your tuition and fees.

And all of our students pay the same for housing. They pay the same for the meal plan. So everyone here is an unlimited meal plan. So we kind of say not all you can eat. But I guess like all you care to eat is the terminology we use. So I made a dining Hall is Mcclurg. That's a huge social hub. We've talked about that before, so we want not to feel like home base. You can stop in there throughout the day. Have a snack with friends in between classes. Study in there like shower. Mention if you have office hours in Mcclurg.

But knowing that that is it, again, they'll tend to tuition and Peas.

That you you have access to.

And you can scan your student ID and go in. I'm pretty much unlimited, um, as you as you wish, so we don't want to when you think about Wellness, right? We want you to have housing. We want you to have access to food and that support that you can really engage in. Learn here.

And then we have something called Flex dollars. We've sort of transition to the name of like domain dollars, but these are it's $150 that is loaded onto your student ID that you get to use throughout the semester, and so you can use that other on campus dining options. So it listed those. And then we have a handful of local restaurants that have partnered with the University to honor those dollars as well. So again, you're not coming out of pocket to kind of adding some variety into into your meal schedule.

Uhm, and then I just I wanted to put some notes and I would definitely if you should be concerned about food right? We talked about in the campus campus, visit of exploring what that means. Uhm, you know how you're going to be utilizing that every day, essentially, so that's that's not a silly thing to explore or to question like see the philosophy behind the dining service or a dining option. So we have all this in-house. We don't contract out our dining services, and so we do a lot in partnership with the University.

Farm here on campus. In partnership with local farmers and communities and so our whole dining staff this morning stuff is really committed to these principles kind of outlined below of focus on sustainability and so eating food that's in season again providing variety for you guys to to go in and see a different mini lie down and know that it's fresh adhering to allergies and special dietary needs to the point that are in our executive.

Directores, right chef Rick will will really sit down with students and make a custom plan and then kind of isolated areas in the dining Hall that are are nut free or free of these particular allergens. And we also this is a really neat service that I didn't know about as a student that if you are sick and you can't leave your residence Hall again, you might have friends that bring you food or you some snacks but you can request sick meals and so having that support of if you can't leave your room I'm in right now that our students are on campus but having to keep.

Distance right as they're waiting, like are spawning. Dining is actually delivering lunches in creating alternative alternate spaces for students to eat and have that variety in a Safeway. So I just think that is that's awesome.

They host advantage workshops like they've done a sushi rolling class. We have a bakers Guild that is comprised of students, so this is a place like you're going to what you're eating and where it came from.

And you're gonna get an email every morning with the menu and tips on Wellness nutrition. 'cause we're also like we want to educate you on how to feed yourself. And then obviously how to to cook or features help when you leave this place. And there's a great sort of Interactive Facebook group that's funny dining hosts about like feedback and student advisory. If you even want to chime in and be like wow, you know that the sweet potatoes today were great or the fried chicken. Whatever like you can. You can put that in there.

Groupon. It's it's A kind of fun space to see feedback.

Anything I'm missing? I mean other will spare you from our favorite menu items I guess.

All right?

Do you wanna talk like briefly about student life and then I fully there? Any specifics that I can help get into?

Hum.

So I think like campus activities is really important just because another sessions we talked about, how we are a rule campus. But I think even Despite that, there's still so much to do on campus and I think students have a traditional spawning student is very involved in campus life in campus activities, and so they're like you see here. There's over 100 student organizations like our Creek live. We have our own like movie theater here, this site.

Once again another another item, but this morning Union Theater, but I think I think it's it's. It's really important just because.

Oh bye bye. But it's it's really important. Just because students here like I said they are engaged and we all have understanding of our location. But we all tried tried to like both so that as much as possible and so even with the theme houses that were mentioning earlier that those kind of operate as a student, additional student organization as well in the theme the language houses they have programming so the Spanish House has multiple cultural events throughout the year. They have like a huge data smart.

Celebration so all types of different things are constantly happening around campus. One of the bigger things that happens here, particularly given our location is the Swanee Outing Program or we call it the SOP. But it's kind of like an outdoor Resource Center. And so with the 13,000 acres that we have, here is another free resource for students to walk in and say, Hey, I'm going on a camping trip this weekend. Can I have a couple of tents and sleeping bags and some climbing gear and you know it, you sign your name and then that's yours for the couple of days.

So it's a really nice resource for students, but it also kind of ties back to honor code, for instance, so we trust this students can take these resources and not damage them, and then lend it to the next peer afterwards, which is really nice.

And you.

An you there are lots of offices on here, right? I think there's so much terminology and like they're all these offices on a college campus, and so I wanted to list them here because I want you to get used to seeing those and hopefully understanding what they mean. And so when you think of the Dean of students office, you know what's house there, and so that's an office dedicated to students, right? And So what, your life looks like in and out of the classroom and often times out of the classroom, right? So that's social support.

Like Cheryl talked about like how do we keep this place running an interactive and fun? Because that's a huge piece of wire opting into a residential campus where that social events are happening here on campus, you're not going home every weekend. And so when you think of we've got the office of multicultural affairs, we have cameras, activities, student life all really coming under this umbrella of Dean of students, right? And so they all have different roles. They manage different programs in offices and you don't need to keep up with all of like the structure of that, but just know that there are.

There are people here just like admission, right? Like we are here to work with you through this process. Then when you're here, you get to engage with these offices and understanding what's important to you. What do you like to do? And they're there for you at students like their job is to serve you.

So I just wanted to to plant that seed for you guys, 'cause I think you know I was not a first generation college student, but I think a lot of that terminology and like what's adenan an assistant Dean and who do I go to talk to you like that can be complicated, but it just raising your hand and asking questions will typically lead you to the right place, at least 2 one fruitful conversation.

So the next couple slides just dig into some of those examples. You know we always get lots of questions about Greek life at Swanee, and so just some updated statistics here. I think 66% of our students being involved in a Greek organization is still a large figure, but that's not everyone. And so to the first bullet point.

Whether you know we say Greek life, even that terminology, it really is a sorority and fraternity life. So if you want that kind of social aspect here at Swanee, yes it does exist. It is a little different in some ways of you know it's really designed to be a non exclusive open system and so that means whether you opt into an organization and become a member or not. There are really few and far between, right? So ideally none of those events on social on campus as far as like those social interactions.

Parties, whatever it may be, you know it's not something that you wouldn't be able to go to or attend or engage with just because you're not partaking in Greek life, so it doesn't. We don't want to do that divisive moment across campus of oh. This is only for members of Greek life that does. That's not really how we operate here, so we wanted to be a little more approachable. It's also not something that you will decide and go through the rush process of joining a Greek organization.

And tell your second semester as a first year student so you have some time to like. Digest that on your own. Make connections we want you to have your swanee like footing and identity before you to have to navigate this process. And again lots of support as you do so.

Uhm, and then I just put, you know, 66%. What does that look like? That looks like around 11130 students from this past year.

And All Saints Chapel Um.

So I want the shot you can see all sayings if you've been um driven past it. You know when you would drive by the front door and he said that big stain glass window. That's that's what you're seeing in this photo with some students. So I wanted to mention this. We have talked in past sessions about Swanee's connection to the Episcopal Church and so that is part of our institutional identity. We are the only college that is owned and operated really by the Episcopal Church. So particularly the southern diocese.

I didn't grow up in or around the festival church that wasn't part of my search process, and so if that if this slide doesn't resonate with you at all, that's totally fine. But it is part of who we are as I campus, and so I think we would want to share that with you as students and talk about in the field guide. And then what resources are activities? Kind of flow from All Saints Chapel, and so again a lot of them are going to be really, I think, through the interfaith lens or interface approach of OK. If you don't know anything about the Episcopal Church, but you want to explore.

Again, like, does it mean to to exist as a human? What are are these cross cultural, cultural understandings? A lot of these events, as far as catechumen it growing in Grace. Those are student organizations or really student events that happen weekly or you get to ask those questions and engage with each other. You know whether you go to church regularly or not, or if it's totally new, even if you're skeptical when you want to go and engage in these conversations, that's really what they're there for.

And he gives you again another layer of community. If you're looking for that. We also have. This is more on a patrician lessons and carols. It's a big hallmark of the University. We do have weekly services, so some foremost an informal. If you wanted to go pray daily then you're able to do that.

Across all types of I think of religions and so.

And this is, I think when I mentioned the chaplains office, yes, that's a resource at Ossian specifically. But also the first stop. Maybe in saying, I don't, I'm not feeling connected here or in this particular space. What church or community, or you know, if you're looking for a mask? If you're looking for a place that you can go practice, then where do you go to make that connection right? Like you can do that on your own volition and Google and all that. But how do you feel that support within our own interfaith community here?

No, that that exists too.

All right?

Share anything I'm missing from those two sides as we go into?

So obviously, civic engagement. We've also talked briefly about uhm, but I think this kind of loops.

A lot of different aspects of swimming that we've talked about hopefully kind of innosys seemed way in across the past three sides and where they where they kind of live right where they housed. So the office of city engagement is another office on campus at does a lot, and so you might be academic civic engagement of if that is very important to you and how you want to operate in academic series, well, then there are particular classes that are CEO classes, so community engaged learning.

Classes that you can kind of follow a curriculum and have that be really another. I would say platform or stronghold in your in your spine education.

So again, more online about what that what that looks like. Specifically going to dig into that coursework. There's also a certificate in civic in global leadership, so some classes with that is going to be a component and driving factor of what you're learning and how you're learning it.

And then if you think of long-term civic engagement, and really, it may be an internship. Or really, I think of a sustained project or is the same piece of your Swanee experience.

We are a Bonner Leader School, so that's a a cohort are sort of consortium of schools there also. Bonner Scholar schools. So if you look at that on the website or on the Internet in general, that's not just specific to Swanee, but that is where if civic engagement and having that sustained project and impact is very important to you, then you are able to apply and move the selection process for Bonner leaders for 1st and 2nd year students. So it allows you to kind of understand the needs of the community and then as a student.

Come up with a plan with supportive of civic engagement to to have a lasting impact or specific project so ones that we've had in the past or most recently. I should say it would be like income tax. Assistant clinics. This running Community College advising so kind of what you're going through now in the surrounding area of how can students plug in and help support you. Know students that are younger than them through the college application process.

And not just with the Swanee lens. So those are two particular examples for Bonner leader. The Canali internship is is similar, but it is Swanee specific and a little bit shorter term. So if you think that the Bonner leader might be you're not quite sure you're still discerning or that might be too big of a commitment timewise. Then the Canali internship still allows you to have that experience usually in a year longer semester long time frame.

And then there is some more philanthropy driven projects and then summer options of saying and working here up on the Cumberland Plateau or specifically at Swanee.

Again, outreach trips, so those will go winter break and spring break. Uhm, you know? Again, not just logging service hours, but specific partnerships that we have come across the Globe. And those trips are pretty, let's say, equitable in you know, we're not just sitting a group of all seniors, it's freshmen and sophomore juniors and seniors mixed together to have that experience with each other and then make sure that you have access to those ships every year. Here, it's fine.

And then a couple of other initiatives that you again, I think the field guide as a resource in the website encouraged to dig in. But again, dialogue across difference. Having hard conversations. How do you approach them? Democratic engagement? And so I put this.

There's this tray of cookies that's a vote, which, um, it's Election Day here, and for primary elections in Tennessee, so it seemed fitting. But it's all about any I said Democratic engagement, not just as like.

One particular political party, but how do you engage in such a come into like your own set of values as a college student, how do you have those conversations? And then yes, you might be away from your hometown. But how can you engage here in in Swanee? How do you engage politically and stay? Stay kind of abreast of current events?

Hum again, working with international community, particularly with those outreach chips, but in a broader sense of Service, an intern ships and then sort of regular. I would say weekly and monthly volunteer opportunities at how do you find those? What's going on and then a sign up sheet? And how do you go do them? So that's really all encompass through civic engagement.

All right?

And.

I'm just this picture makes me laugh every time.

The Tiger mascot, and so again, not every student will be considering varsity athletics. When you think about Swanee, but we are in in C AA Division Three school and with 24 varsity team, so they kind of crunching the numbers there right at are usually right over 30% of our students. Our scholar athletes. So student first right? And then yes, you're a competitive Division Three collegiate athlete. So know that that is definitely. If that's on your radar too.

Pursue that option. Talk with our athletic staff. We don't have athletic scholarships at the Division Three level and more information about that, but that that can be a huge part of your spine experience. If you are on a varsity team. We have club sports. We have Inter Merial so if you just want to keep up his skill set or have fun or that's important to your well being, Fittness Yes that exists and then Fowler Center Wellness Commons.

We have a 9 hole golf course here.

That even was open to the public, so the core said Swanee and then the greater domain. So always that you might engage with this place again to that physical aspect. You're just moving your body right in whatever way, but that you have those options here, like within this one you community.

Alright, so that puts us right on time. We're going to pitch it to questions.

Um?

So again, as we.

I see one out will get to that, but um, I do want to say that this was a lot of information packed into one session. And that's also why, like when we try to send you something thin, it ends up being this many pages long. We want you to have access to these resources in offices and tips as you think about being a college student and specifically a student at Swanee. So yes, Wade, you will be able to replay this, so we're going to put it on her tagger tips landing page.

Chat that in right now so we should have it up by tomorrow or so if not by Monday that you can go in for actually all 10. Pack your tips and re watch any of these sessions in the chat. With the hyperlinks comes up and all of the slides. So yes, please reference this.

And yeah, use those links to dig back into the to the field guide etc. But we do hope you know that this information is helpful. And, again, like empowers you as a student to say I love that about that campus or I'm not loving that like you get to be in the driver seat.

And as we.

Round out some questions I wanted to mention link that I didn't reference. I put in this campuslabs.com/engage that is a Super Interactive website so we call it Swanee engage and that's a need to use a perspective student. And as a student at Swanee to see all of those clubs student organizations. You know what their mission is, how often they meet their identity and all of that you get to see that on 28 gauge. So I would definitely encourage you to.

To check that out.

Which to Charlie's question, I don't know if there is a pickle ball club, but if you go and spawning engage we could figure that out.

Come and share and I were actually just talking about this before we started the session of where both Swanee alums. So we were both here for a period of four years at Swanee students. And there are so many things that remain the same, but so many that change. So we have our own student experiences and things that we were involved in, but they change year to year. So I feel like Charlie, If I was a student currently, I might know the answer that question, but I don't.

All right?

Well, I am not seeing any questions role in actively, but here is our contact information. Um, so myself and Shiro again next Thursday on August 13th we're having our case study program and So what that entails is we actually are going to review 3 mock applications and with you guys as students and parents if they want to attend with you will walk through that as a process. Talk about review components, how we assess that. Again, sort of an exercise.

Swanee specific, but in general so you kind of understand what the admissions process looks like on our end, and so that will be about an hour and 15 minutes. So pretty similar to Swanee session.

Alright, well we had two questions role in so if you guys want to hang around will answer these uhm.

Let's see.

I see I know who I'm not pronouncing wrong Rhiannon. Your question, I don't know particularly about that program. I'm going to prove it. I know it might be a little specific question for others, but to the idea of a gap year. So just to talk about that terminology. If you are interested in going through the application process in this cycle. So you're a rising senior in your senior year and at the end of this process you've gotten your.

College acceptance, you know where you wanted to enroll, but you want to take a formal gap here or at some schools. A gap semester. It's only currently have a gap year. It means that you actually defer your enrollment. So coming to campus for a school year and so often times. If a student does do that and takes a gap year, it is for a particular program.

Life experience cultural emergen. Um for us we are pretty supportive of those programs, right? So we actually do a gap year page if you want it to look at that.

The important part is that you're not proceeding college credit, mainly because I can change your status as an incoming first year true freshman. So probably in the weeds. I don't know about that question. We can follow up with you particularly about partnering with that program, but as far as gap years, absolutely. I mean we offer them. I think if that's right paper who is a student, then don't shy away from it. I think there's a lot of typical like social emotional growth that can come from that. Or just having time of-. So we are a gap. Your friendly.

Office and school.

And then we'll try to keep this concise, but there's a great question of because we're alums. What inspired us to come back to Swanee? I'm gonna let Shirou tackle that first, because you've heard a lot of me.

For me.

And.

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has about.

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Yeah, it's no problem. Uh, so for me specifically and it's the thing that I've been talking about this whole time. Community was a really big part. That's why I had to come back. I recently just finished my Masters and when I was job searching one thing there is really important to me is being in one a comfortable environment and working for an institution that I was passionate about their mission about what I would be putting out there. And so I think Sony was a very easy choice for me just because I.

For me.

So it's pretty.

I forget.

I really enjoyed my time here as a student, I worked in the office, doesn't mission pretty heavily because even at that moment in my Sony career I was able to understand and identify with this money mission and with the value of a liberal arts education and so it was a pretty seamless transition personally for me. But yes, we're going back to community. Those relationships that I've built as a student with faculty members with staff members. That was all really important process.

And.

And I'm over here trying to multitask, which maybe even though I'm not the best at OK, I was trying to type I I put in the link about differed enrollment, particularly because it does outline our preferred partner programs, but that's not an exhaustive list, so there you go. Why I love that question, because I often say.

Like I had to choose me twice. You know I went to the discernment process out of student and then again as a staff member because Sharon. I both spend time away from Swanee before we came back to the community and specifically to the office of admission, uhm.

I think.

For me it was.

I I had so many and I don't want to sound cliche but like I had so many formative experiences at Swanee, which I think.

Are probably college specific to like not just funny specific but like what you go through in college, but I felt like the mentorship and support and friendship that I was able to really have here at Swanee because I was living on campus, I was sharing meals. I was I was talking about classes and coursework in the dining Hall and that wasn't nerd. You know, like that was what was facilitated here. I can get just.

I wanted to be back in that as a professional, but also I wanted to share that with other students. Um, an not in a way of emulating my path, but wow, here's everything I see now. You know, kind of. If I could do it again, right? That you have access to this knowledge and and feel once you get here, our job is to kind of guide you through your own decision making process, right? Not to really make it for you. And so yes, there is an admissions process. Yes, their arm. It's weightless, denies there's those realities but

once you have gone to that process and you're giving it your all, I think there's a lot of excitement there. And so I love. I love that, and I love the Swanee Swanee way of approaching that and trying to be really student centric.

Well, I see your question I.

I don't I'm gonna leave it. Sort of in our question Qi don't, I'm that seems very feasible to me that that did happen. I think it is a little more formalized now. As far as like housing.

On campus like you you there are professors. I'll just send the question out so it was we have a student who is dad. Sounds like an alarm. Went to Swanee, stayed in someone's house. The House might have been on campus. I would say when you think of residential life at Swanee, we threw a lot of you today. Really just think of your first year experience in that will typically be in a residence Hall again unless you have like a particular situation that's improved through.

You know student life in residential life as far as as housing you'll be on campus in a residence Hall with a roommate that you've been intentionally paired with. And so we pair roommates. There's like a 67 question questionnaire. It is Super. It's a really neat process of how we try to pair you with someone who's your compatible with and can coexist with, but will also still push you and won't be totally, you know, this person from your hometown or your best friend so, but will ensure to answer your question.

Likely no. Uhm there are. Typically sometimes upperclassmen might rent a like a house or a cottage like from a professor, maybe, but it would still typically be on campus, so I hope that makes sense.

You know that that everything like you saw, if you were on the session last week and that kind of aerial shot of Swanee. There are residential homes on Central Campus and on the domain, and so there might be a community member or like again faculty or staff member here. It's Juanita has kind of that guest house or their renting that out to again, typically a junior or senior. But again now it's 98% of our students are on campus in University housing, so residence Hall.

Greenhouse or one of those language houses.

Is very long winded but will do our due diligence.

But thank you guys so much. Again, contact information. It's been up here and we really hope to see you for the virtual case study program. So it is going to be through zoom. You'll register under format very similar to these swanee sessions, but the way that we actually going to interact with you, it will be more of a two way conversation so that we can talk with applications and will be hosted through zoom.

So we hope to see you then. This will mark the end of Tiger tips, money sessions, but will be rolling out some more this fall. So just watch your email and we look forward to working with you guys.