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Welcome
to Howard University! The New
Graduate Student Orientation Program is designed to welcome you as a
new graduate student to the Howard University community.
This orientation will acclimate you to the registration process,
familiarize you with available resources, facilitate your transition
into Graduate School, and equip you with the necessary tools to ensure
successful matriculation.
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Friday,
August 15, 2003
Orientation Information Day, 8:30 am - 4:00 pm
(Gallery Lounge of the Blackburn University Center)
H.U.G.S. Peer Mentoring Program, 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
(Gallery
Lounge of the Blackburn University Center)
Saturday, August 16, 2003
History of Howard Seminar, 9:00 am
-1:00 pm
(Graduate
School’s Smart Conference Room 205)
Sunday, August 17, 2003
Meditation/Worship,
9:00 a.m.–10:30 am (Rankin
Chapel)
Mandatory
Orientation for International Students, 11:00 am- 2:00 pm
(Blackburn University Center Auditorium)
Monday, August 18, 2003
Department Academic Advisement/Registration,
8:30 am – 12:30 pm
(Check
With Your Department)
Overview of Graduate Student Resources and Tour of Resource
Facilities, 1:00 pm -5:00 pm
(Gallery Lounge of the Blackburn University Center)
Tuesday, August 19, 2003 Exploration of Self: What
Matters Most, Time Management and
Myers Briggs Seminars,
9:00 am -5:00pm
(Gallery
Lounge of the Blackburn University Center)
Wednesday, August 20, 2003 Teaching
and Graduate Assistants Workshop, 8:30 am– 5:00 pm
(School of Social Work Auditorium)
Thursday, August 21, 2003 Teaching and Graduate Assistants Workshop, 8:30
am– 5:00 pm
(School of Social Work Auditorium)
Friday, August 22, 2003 Strategies for Success Day, 8:30 am – 5:00 pm
(Gallery Lounge of the Blackburn University Center)
Dean’s
Reception and Evening of Jazz: Faculty, New and
Returning Students’ Mixer, 5:00 pm- 7:30pm
(Gallery Lounge of the Blackburn University Center)
Day One
Friday, August 15, 2003
Orientation Information Day
Time
Activity Presenter
Location
8:30
– 9:00 am
Registration & Continental
Dr. Pat Cole Holliday
Gallery Lounge
Breakfast
Facilitator Blackburn University Center
9:00
– 9:45 am
Welcome to Howard Dr.
Emmanuel K. Glakpe
Dr. Marlene W. Sherrill
Dr.
Andrea H. Jackson
Ms. LaTanya Reese
Interim President,
Graduate Student Council
Ms. Marnell Niles
NBGSA Representative
9:45
– 10:00 am
Educational Affairs Dr. Emmanuel Glakpe
Associate Dean
10:00
– 10:15 am
Office of Retention Dr.
Marlene Sherrill
Mentoring and Support
Programs Overview (ORMSP)
10:15-
10:45 am
Responsible Conduct of Dr. Marlene Sherrill
Research (RCR) Overview Dr. Eric Walters
10:45
– 11:00 am
Break and Prize Drawing
11:00
– 12:30 pm
H.U.G.S. Skit Peer Mentors
Registration Tips Ms. Constance Minor
Ms. Stephanie Johnson
Financial Aid Tips Ms. Gloria Lloyd
Mr. John Butler
Health Center
Ms. Cornelia Harris
Mental Health
Dr. Diane Reynolds
Parking/Transportation Ms. Denise Eanes
Campus Safety
Chief Reginald Smith
Counseling Center Mr. Howard Hope
The Consortium Ms. Wanda Jones
Adjusting to Washington Ms. Roberta McLeod
12:30
– 1:30 pm
Lunch On Your Own
1:30
– 2:30 pm
Create Your Own All New Students and
Graduate School (CYOGS) Graduate Faculty
(Facilitators, Directors of Graduate Study)
2:30
– 4:30 pm
CYOGS Presentations Selected New Graduate Students
Day Two
Saturday, August 16, 2003
HU In Retrospect Day
9:00 am – 1:00 pm
The History of Howard Dr. Thomas Battle
Graduate School
and
Historical Tour
Conference Room 205
Day Three Sunday, August 17,
2003
Meditation
and Worship Day
Time
Activity Presenter
Location
9:00 – 10: 30 am
Worship Service
Rev. Bernard Richardson
Rankin Chapel
11:00 – 2:00
pm
International Students Office of
International
Blackburn University
Student Services Center
Auditorium
Day Four, Monday, August 18, 2003
Advisement, Registration, Resource Day,
Tour of Resource Facilities
Time
Activity Presenter
Location
8:00 am – 12 noon Advisement and Registration
Individual Departments
12:00
– 1:00 pm
Lunch On Your Own
1:00 –
1:05 pm
Introductions
Dr. Cole Holliday
Gallery Lounge
Blackburn
1:05
– 1:30 pm
Founders Library
Ms. Francis Zeigler
1:30
– 2:00 pm
Moorland Spingarn
Ms. Leida I. Torres
2:00
– 2:30 pm
Health Sciences
Mr. Don Monroe
2:30:
– 3:00 pm
The I-Lab
Mr. Clint Walker
3:00
– 3:15 pm
Q & A, Break and Prize Drawing
3:30
– 4:00 pm
Tour of Moorland Spingarn Ms. Leida I. Torres
4:00
– 4:30 pm
Tour of Founders Ms. Francis Zeigler
4:30
– 5:00 pm
Tour of Health Sciences Mr. Don Monroe
5:00
– 5:30 pm
Tour of The i-Lab Mr. Clint Walker
Day Five, Tuesday, August 19, 2003
Exploration of Self
Time
Activity Presenter
Location
8:30
– 9:00 am
Registration
9:00
– 9:15 am
Introduction and Overview
Dr. Pat Cole Holliday
Gallery
Lounge
Blackburn Center
9:15
– 10:45 am
Overview of Services
HU Counseling and
Mental Health Centers
10:45 –11:00 am
Break and Prize Drawing
Dr. Pat Cole Holliday
11:00
– 12 noon
Time and Stress
HU Counseling Center
Management Strategies
Representatives
12:00
– 1:00 pm
Lunch
on your own
1:30
– 3:30 pm
Myers Briggs Workshop
HU Counseling Center
Representatives
3:30
– 3:45 pm
Break and Prize Drawing
3:45
– 5:30 pm
Myers Briggs Workshop Continued
Day
Six, Wednesday, August 20, 2003
Teaching and Graduate Assistants Day
Time
Activity
Presenter Location
9:00 –
5:00 pm
Teaching
and
Dr. John Reilly
School of Social Work
Graduate
Assistants’
Auditorium
Workshop
Note: Please
contact Dr. John Reilly on (202) 806-7453, 806-6971, 806-7879 or
806-6730 or email jreilly@howard.edu
for additional information on this workshop.
Day Seven, Thursday, August 21, 2003
Time
Activity Presenter
Location
8:30 – 9:00 a.m.
Registration
9:00 – 5:00 pm
Teaching
and
Dr. John Reilly
School of Social
Work Graduate Assistants’
Auditorium
Workshop
Day Eight, Friday, August 22, 2003
Strategies for Success Day
Time
Activity
Presenter
Location
8:30
– 9:00 am
Registration & Continental Dr. Marlene Sherrill
Gallery Louge
Breakfast
Facilitator Blackburn Center
9:05
– 9:10 am
Introduction of Speaker
Dean Taylor
9:10
– 9:45 am
Strategies for Success
Dr.
Debyii Thomas
in
Graduate School
9:45 – 10:45 am
The Graduate School
Dean Taylor
Process:
A Town Meeting
Director of Graduate
Study
Create
Your Own
Graduate
School Team Reports
10:45-
11:00 am
Break and Prize Drawing
11:00
– 11:45am The Individualized Program Dr.
Pat Cole Holliday
of Study: A
Model
11:45
– 12 noon
Graduate Faculty and New Graduate Faculty and
Graduate
Student Dialogue New Graduate Students
(Facilitators, Grad
Study Directors)
12:00
– 1:00 pm
Lunch (The Café)
Blackburn
Center
1:00
– 3:30 pm
The Mentoring Process Dr. Cole Holliday, Facilitator
Mentoring
Roles
Academic
Mentor
Dr. Wilhelmina Wright Harp
Peer
Mentor
Ms. Ianessa Humbert
3:30
– 3:45 pm
Break and Prize Drawing
3:45
– 4:15 pm
The Protégé’s Role Peer
Mentors
4:15
– 5:00 pm
Peer Mentor’s and Protégé Mixer
5:00
- 7:30 pm
Dean’s Reception and Evening
Gallery Lounge
of Jazz: Faculty, New and
Blackburn University Center
Returning
Students’ Mixer
Day Eight
Sunday, August 24, 2003
Meditation and Worship Day
Time
Activity Presenter
Location
11:00 am Worship Service Rev.
Bernard Richardson
Rankin Chapel Rankin
Day Nine
Monday, August 25, 2003
Classes Begin
THE GRADUATE EXPOSITORY WRITING PROGRAM - FALL 2003
The
Graduate School – Howard University
SCHEDULE FOR
THE FOLLOWING CATEGORIES OF GRADUATE STUDENTS:
- Continuing
students who have not taken the Graduate School’s English
Proficiency Examination in Expository Writing
- Entering
students whose GRE scores do not include a score for the new GRE
Analytical Writing Assessment GRE-AWA), which was implemented
October 2002
- Entering
students who submitted a GRE-AWA score below four (4)
I.
SEMINAR PREPARATION FOR THE ENGLISH PROFICIENCY EXAMINATION
September
3
Wednesday, 2:00-4:00 p.m.,
Auditorium, School of Social Work
OR
September
4
Thursday, 5:30-7:30 p.m., Auditorium, School of Social Work
II.
THE ENGLISH PROFICIENCY EXAMINATION *
September 6 Saturday,
9:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m., Auditorium, School of Social Work
III.
ALTERNATE EXAMINATION DATES
(Written Requests Required: Emergencies
and Religious Reasons Only)
September
10
Wednesday, 1:30-4:30 p.m., Graduate School (GS) 317-A
(Limited to the First 15 Students Who
Request and Register for This Date)
September 11
Thursday, 5:30-8:30 p.m., GS 317-A
(Limited to the First 15 Students Who Request and Register for This
Date)
IV.
EXAMINATION RESULTS POSTED
September 24
Wednesday, Online Posting of Examination Results
V.
REVIEW OF EXAMINATION PAPERS
(By Appointment Only); REGISTRATION FOR CLASSES/TUTORIAL (Go to
Online Appointment Request Forms and Class Registration Forms.)
September
25
Thursday, 10:00 -5:00 p.m.; GS 313 (Review Examination Paper)
September
26
Friday, 1:00 -5:00 p.m.; GS 313 (Review Examination Paper)
VI.
OTHER IMPORTANT DATES
September
29
Last Day to Register for Classes (Late Registration)
December
5
Thursday, Classes/Tutorials End
*
STUDENTS SHOULD BRING TO THE EXAMINATION A PICTURE ID, A DICTIONARY
/THESAURUS, ONLINE REGISTRATION PRINTOUT (IF APPLICABLE), AND BALL POINT
PEN (S).
ONLINE
REGISTRATION IS AVAILABLE FOR THE EXAMINATION. LATE REGISTRATION FOR THE
CLASSES MUST BE COMPLETED BY SEPTEMBER 29, 2003.
For further information, come to the
Graduate School, Room 315 or 317-A; e-mail eharris@howard.edu
OR fbarnes@howard.edu; or call
202-806-6864.
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