About FYE
To institutionalize, initiate, inspire, and ensure the successful completion retention of first year students at Loyola Marymount University. Upon the completion of the first year, students will have a positive sense of self, with the confidence and tools necessary to achieve both academic and life goals.
The mission of First Year Experience is rooted in the University's mission; the encouragement of learning, the service of faith, the education of the whole person, and the promotion of justice. The FYE office provides first year students with strategic and academic skills. Through FYE, students are provided with; opportunities to explore and set personal and professional goals; learn the connection between academic excellence and career development; understand their personal value system; explore the richness of the diverse LMU community; establish a connection with campus life; become prepared for life after the University.
To affect LMU freshmen retention rates. The goal is to establish a 95% retention rate of freshmen students into their sophomore year at LMU. In addition, First Year Experience seeks to change the culture of the LMU freshmen experience as a holistic approach to preparedness, engagement, and success.
- Encourage the focus of one of LMU's institutional commitments of the First Year Experience.
- Consolidate cross-campus first year initiatives, while strategically developing the First Year Experience Office as a central component of the LMU First Year Experience
- Provide clear and useful resource tools to freshmen transition.
- Support the social and academic preparedness and readiness of freshmen students.
- Support the intellectual engagement and academic success of freshmen students.
- Provide early opportunities for social interaction and campus engagement for freshmen students.
- Increased faculty/student curricular and co-curricular interactions.
- Design, implement, and maintain regular assessment tools.
- Create technologically innovative models for supporting the first year experience.
By the end of your first year here at LMU you will,
Value...
The pursuit of higher education and begin to develop a genuine appreciation for lifelong learning.
The opportunities for growth and exploration created by participating in LMU's diverse community.
Know...
LMU's mission and traditions and how you play a vital part in the global community.
About the university's resources and how to access them to enhance your college-life experience.
Act...
As engaged members of the university community with a developed sense of personal
accountability, good judgment and independent thinking that leads towards a balanced life.