Florida paper highlights student's Coker Connection

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The following is from TC PALM, a local news outlet in Florida and I thought it was sort of cool to read about Coker Connection from another view:

Mazzola attends Coker Connection

Michael Mazzola of Jupiter recently attended Coker Connection, an intense two-day adventure/experiential learning program that provides students the opportunity to connect with fellow freshmen, stay in the residence halls and explore campus before orientation. The program concentrates on goal setting and relationship building in an effort to position students for a successful start to their Coker College career.

Activities included a trip to the U.S. National White Water Center in Charlotte, N.C., where students were challenged mentally and physically to work on team-building and problem-solving skills with classmates.

Early taste of college at Coker Connection

Just happened to stop by Student Affairs this afternoon and Lisa had the Coker Connection as one of her major activities. Coker Connection is a short period in the summer time when new first-year students get a quick preview of the campus and people in their class. As a faculty http://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gifvolunteer I get to lead a short class where we will be discussing the movie The Social Network. Looking forward to meeting some of the members of the new class.

Campus going to get pretty quiet

Summer day school ended this past week and the Term V night classes will be completely over this week. There are final classes, final exams, final papers and all the last-minute items of all terms or semesters with students most anxiously awaiting the grades that come following the work. So, with the holiday this Friday, will come nearly three weeks of no classes and no students. But, I saw a calendar the other day and new students will begin rolling in right after the first week of August as resident assistants begin their preparations, the men and women's soccer teams will begin their practices and we will be in the second semester of the college's centennial year.

As noted earlier, the Coker Connection, where about-to-be first-year students get to meet some of their classmates appeared to be quite a success. One of my colleague's daughter's was not sure she was going to enjoy it and called her mother at 1:30 in the morning telling her what a great time she was having. Team building, conversations, some pre registration and other activities filled in the times not spent by students getting to know one another.

Since this seems to be a potpourri of things, one of the student helps seems to have come up with the idea of extending the Coker late night breakfast to the summer program and we cooked some breakfast food for student dinners last Thursday and this also seemed to add some important Coker camaraderie to students stressed with pending finals.