{"id":36,"date":"2022-05-27T10:43:33","date_gmt":"2022-05-27T14:43:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cavehill.uwi.edu\/newstudents\/orientation-home\/"},"modified":"2026-07-13T11:01:56","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T15:01:56","slug":"orientation-home","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.cavehill.uwi.edu\/newstudents\/orientation\/orientation-home\/","title":{"rendered":"Orientation Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<section id=\"contentpage-div\">\n<div class=\"page-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div id=\"main-content\" class=\"col-md-12 pagecontent bodytext\">\n<div class=\"lc-block\">\n<div editable=\"rich\">\n<h1 class=\"page-header\">Orientation<\/h1>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"lc-block\" editable=\"rich\">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"\/images\/homepage\/orientation-850-x-en\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\tYour orientation to the University plays a major role in preparing you for success as a student.&nbsp; There are several stages of Orientation:\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"lc-block\">\n<div editable=\"rich\">\n<h3>Undergraduate Students<\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"lc-block\">\n<div editable=\"rich\">\n<h5>New Student Orientation<\/h5>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"lc-block\" editable=\"rich\">\n<p>There is a <strong>general<\/strong> <strong>New Student Orientation<\/strong> for all incoming <strong>undergraduate<\/strong> students. &nbsp;This comprises:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>An Online Self-paced Orientation<\/li>\n<li>Parents and Partners Forum&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li>A range of exciting Freshers\u2019 Week social and networking events (<em>Semester 1 only<\/em>)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n<ul>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/ul>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"lc-block\">\n<div editable=\"rich\">\n<h5>Faculty Orientation<\/h5>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"lc-block\" editable=\"rich\">\n<p>There is a <strong>general<\/strong> <strong>New Student Orientation<\/strong> for all incoming <strong>undergraduate<\/strong> students. &nbsp;This comprises:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>An Online Self-paced Orientation&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li>Parents and Partners Forum&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li>A range of exciting Freshers\u2019 Week social and networking events (<em>Semester 1 only<\/em>)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n<ul>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/ul>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"lc-block\">\n<div editable=\"rich\">\n<h3>Graduate Students<\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"lc-block\" editable=\"rich\">\n<p>A general Orientation Forum for all new graduate students will take place in&nbsp; August 2026.&nbsp;This will be preceded by Briefing\/Advising Meetings with Programme Coordinators for students in <strong>Taught Programmes <\/strong>(for some taught programmes, these briefing may come after the general Orientation Forum). For <strong>Research Students <\/strong>a briefing and meeting with the Director of the School for Graduate Studies and Research and Research Supervisors will be held in August 2026.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\tOther Orientation activities planned for graduate students include the following:\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Developmental Information Sessions\/Workshops<\/li>\n<li>An online self-paced orientation site (available from&nbsp;August 1)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\tStudents entering in semester 2 will be advised by their coordinators regarding orientation.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cavehill.uwi.edu\/newstudents\/orientation\/graduate-students\/\">Visit Graduate New Student Orientation \u00bb<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t&nbsp;\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\t\t<br class=\"clear\">\n\t<\/div>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Orientation Your orientation to the University plays a major role in preparing you for success as a student.&nbsp; There are several stages of Orientation: Undergraduate Students New Student Orientation There is a general New Student Orientation for all incoming undergraduate students. &nbsp;This comprises: An Online Self-paced Orientation Parents and Partners Forum&nbsp; A range of exciting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":383,"featured_media":0,"parent":34,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-templates\/new-students-side-menu.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"slim_seo":{"title":"Orientation Home - New Students - The University of the West Indies at Cave Hill","description":"Orientation Your orientation to the University plays a major role in preparing you for success as a student.&nbsp; There are several stages of Orientation: Unde"},"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-36","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cavehill.uwi.edu\/newstudents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/36","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cavehill.uwi.edu\/newstudents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cavehill.uwi.edu\/newstudents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cavehill.uwi.edu\/newstudents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/383"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cavehill.uwi.edu\/newstudents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.cavehill.uwi.edu\/newstudents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/36\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":511,"href":"https:\/\/www.cavehill.uwi.edu\/newstudents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/36\/revisions\/511"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cavehill.uwi.edu\/newstudents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/34"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cavehill.uwi.edu\/newstudents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}