Podcasts about new student orientation

In this fun, heartfelt, and inspiring episode of the Let's Grow, host Meraj Husen welcomes not one, but two amazing guests—Faye Lofgren and Hope Christensen, who are roommates, juniors, and standout students at Springfield College. Faye is a Physical Therapy major with a Business Management minor, and Hope is pursuing a degree in Elementary and Special Education. Both are deeply passionate, outgoing, and full of positive energy. In this episode, you'll hear: - The story of their friendship from meeting as roommates to becoming inseparable. - Honest reflections on college life, from nightly routines and sleep habits to dorm living in the iconic Senior Suites. - Real talk on the differences in friendships between males and females. - Their academic journeys: Why Faye chose PT and why Hope loves teaching and theater. - Adventures abroad: Travel stories from Italy, London, and a wild Taylor Swift concert trip to Canada. - How they've grown since freshman year and what they're involved in now, from New Student Orientation to theater and activism. - Plus, their unfiltered advice for incoming freshmen and lessons learned along the way.

Series:The Radical Life: Embracing the Upside Down Life of the Sermon on the MountScripture Reference:Matthew 5:1-10First Methodist Church of Opelika is an exciting, historic, and growing Methodist church that is inviting our community to find and follow the Spirit-led life in Jesus. Founded in 1837, First Opelika has a rich history of influencing and impacting families in the Opelika/Auburn and surrounding community. The church is currently in a season of revitalization and is laying the foundation for effective ministry in the next season of her life as an independent Methodist church.For more information, check us out at www.firstopelika.org or www.facebook.com/firstopelika

Jasmine Forsberg '21 is an emerging star of Broadway...and she's a Penn Stater! Forsberg is currently performing in the hit Broadway musical "Six" after touring the country for over a year in the First National Tour. Last summer, Jasmine made her Broadway debut in the all-Filipino cast of "Here Lies Love." In addition to her successes on stage, Jasmine starred in the 2021 Hallmark movie "One December Night," which featured her singing her own original music. A talented songwriter, Jasmine's music is also featured in "Results Will Vary," a 45-minute musical sketch comedy show that prepares incoming students for life at Penn State and is performed during each New Student Orientation program at Penn State University Park.Connect with Jasmine on her website or Instagram. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Timestamps for our conversation with Jasmine: 0:00 — Intro2:00 — Becoming a Penn Stater7:00 — Developing a passion for stage acting 9:50 — Jasmine's career journey 14:15 — Being a part of the first all-Filipino cast on Broadway18:45 — Playing Jane Seymour in "Six"27:45 — Starring in a Hallmark movie 32:00 — How Jasmine has left a legacy at Penn State36:30 — Lessons learned in the Penn State Musical Theatre program39:15 — Lightning Round Q&A44:15 — Outro  

Show Notes: In today's episode, we wrap up Fall 2023 with our last episode of this season. Our future episodes will be geared towards Fall 2024 students. While you are always welcome to tune in, they may not be as relevant to you. Resources: Instagram Accounts to Follow: @usuaggielife @ususaevents @usuhurd Academic Resource Finder: https://www.usu.edu/academic-support/ New Student Orientation: https://www.usu.edu/orientation/locations/logan   Orientation Office Contact Information: 435-797-0283; orientation@usu.edu; Instagram @usuateam 

We're going out with a bang in the Season 4 finale! Join us for a lively conversation with Mark Myers, director for New Student & Family Transitions, and Natalie Meredith, assistant director for New Student & Family Transitions. Discover the passion and dedication of Orientation Leaders, and gain valuable insights into the innovative Jags4Jags mentorship program. Join us for an episode that will leave you inspired, informed, and eagerly awaiting the next season! Learn more about the Jags4Jags mentorship program: https://www.augusta.edu/mentoring/

The Decipher Podcast will be taking a short summer break! We'll be back July 17th to talk about New Student Orientation.

Are you an incoming student? WELCOME TO THE HILL! In this episode, Ivan and guest Amber speak on ALL things orientation, from overviews, touring, and advising, this episode is PACKED with information on becoming a Razorback!

Matt Wireman00:00:23 - 00:01:00Welcome to another episode of Off the Wire. This is Matt Wireman and I am so thankful to have with me Dr. Brian Arnold, who is currently serving as the president of Phoenix Seminary. And that is really fun to say. I met Brian while he and I were students at Southern Seminary together. And I believe we had an early church history class on Augustine together, if I'm not mistaken. And I had no idea that guys that I was going to school with were going to be president. So here you go. So I'm really thankful to have you, Brian, on this podcast. And I just wanted to thank you for your time.Brian Arnold00:01:01 - 00:01:03Well, it's great to be with you, Matt. Thanks for asking me on.Matt Wireman00:01:03 - 00:01:24Yeah, so you, we were chatting before we hit the record button and you've been at Phoenix Seminary for five years you say and then just recently have taken the post as present. Can you kind of walk us through what that transition has been like and what you find yourself busying yourself with as opposed to what you found yourself busying yourself with?Brian Arnold00:01:25 - 00:02:55Absolutely. So in 2014, actually, I got a call from a friend of mine, Dr. John Meade, who was also at Southern with us. He was doing his PhD in Old Testament and said, hey, are you looking for a job in academia? And I was pastoring at the time, and I'd love to tell more and more about that if you'd like. And he said, there's a position open to Phoenix. So I applied for it and got the position. We moved across the country in May of 2015, which is not the time to come to Phoenix to get the brunt of the brutal summers. See if you're really committed. That's why you went to Phoenix. Absolutely. And taught in church history and systematic theology for those first couple of years. What I recognized pretty quickly about myself is as much as I love scholarship and I enjoy writing and lecturing, I also noticed, one I've noticed this my entire adult life, even before, is a mentorship and a desire to help make things better. So some of my colleagues are exceptionally gifted scholars, but I always found myself drifting into more meetings and thinking through curricular issues and just noticing, especially at Phoenix Seminary, how much potential I saw here and wanted to maximize that as much as possible. And part of it was I never thought I'd actually get a job even teaching at a seminary. And I wanted to make sure the Phoenix Seminary had every chance it had in this kind of environment to be successful in the long haul. So that's what kind of led me to administration.Matt Wireman00:02:55 - 00:03:10Yeah, so your goal was not to be in higher education. It sounds like you were a pastor when you got that phone call from John. So like, what were you thinking? For one, why did you get the PhD if you knew you were going to be a pastor?Brian Arnold00:03:11 - 00:03:28So I almost had to go all the way back to college when I first got a taste for theology,late high school, early into college and started devouring just different books as I found them. I remember even I was a paramedic major in college and so I was in fire and EMS and.Matt Wireman00:03:28 - 00:03:30Eastern Kentucky, right? Is that where you were at?Brian Arnold00:03:30 - 00:05:43I like to say Harvard of the South, nobody else does. But I had a 500-hour internship program that I had to do over the course of a summer in the back of an ambulance and I was doing for a long time, 24 hours on, 24 hours off. And I wanted something substantive to read and my director for Campus Crusade said, why don't you read this book? It's a big fat systematic theology by a guy named Wayne Grudem. And so I went to Barnes and Noble, bought it. And I remember walking in the parking lot looking and seeing like, wow, Harvard and Westminster and Cambridge. And he teaches at this place called Phoenix Seminary and I've never heard of that before. But I read that that summer and fell in love with even academic theology as well as a couple of my roommates in college. And everyone I knew had gone to Southern Seminary. So that was a no-brainer. I was an hour and a half down the road and went to Southern. And really from my first day there, I remember a guy named Scott Davis was in admissionsat the time. And I said, you know, I'm going to go through the MDiv and get my PhD and I would love to teach someday. And he was like, easy there. He hears that from a lot of people. And he said, you haven't even started the MDiv yet. You don't know how hard that is. And also over that same kind of weekend, the New Student Orientation kind of things, Russ Moore, I was sitting next to him for lunch. And he said, you know, one of the founders of Southern Seminary said, if your greatest desire is not to go into the pastorate, then you probably shouldn't be teaching at a seminary. And I thought, you know, I do have a passion for the local church and I would love to pastor. So I kept those two ideas in my mind of what I kind of wanted to do. And then I was realistic. I knew how many guys go and get a PhD and never get a job in higher education. So I thought the chances of me actually teaching at a seminary are very slim, but I love the study of theology. And I knew that even doing that level of work would improve my communication skills, my ability to read better and to write clearly. And so I was really passionate about getting the PhD and either adjuncting somewhere while I was pastoring or writing or any kind of combination of those things. And there was a school near me where I was pastoring in western Kentucky that actually went out of business the day after I went there to talk to them about teaching, potentially.Matt Wireman00:05:43 - 00:05:46Where were you pastoring at in western Kentucky?Brian Arnold00:05:46 - 00:05:50So it was a little town called Smithland, Kentucky, just outside of Paducah.Matt Wireman00:05:50 - 00:05:51Okay, awesome.Brian Arnold00:05:51 - 00:05:54The school that was down there was called Mid-Continent University.Matt Wireman00:05:54 - 00:05:56Okay, okay. Very familiar with it. Yeah.Brian Arnold00:05:56 - 00:06:24They went out and I had been looking for higher ed jobs the whole time. And I told my wife, if I don't hear anything at this ETS, it was going to be ETS in 2014, I'm not going to pursue higher ed anymore. Well, that's when John Mead reached out and said, hey, are you interested? So I always wanted to go into higher ed. I just, in some ways it was hedging saying, I know that it's unrealistic that I'll actually get a position in higher ed.Matt Wireman00:06:24 - 00:06:27Just because it's such a saturation of PhDs, is that why?Brian Arnold00:06:27 - 00:06:52huge saturation of PhDs, less people are going to seminaries, there's a scaling down.There was just all the confluence of issues that make it that much harder to get into the market. I felt like we're happening. So, I'm a pastor, the Lord is really blessing our work there and it was exciting and I could have done that for an entire career and been really satisfied doing it.Matt Wireman00:06:52 - 00:07:12Mm-hmm. So what was it about Phoenix that you would make a move? I mean, because that's not just, you know, right down the street kind of seminary that like you alluded to.I mean, that's a substantial climate change, but also a substantial cultural change. And so what was it about Phoenix particularly that drew you to even apply?Brian Arnold00:07:13 - 00:07:45Yeah, if I'm just being frank, it was a job. I kept telling my wife, you know, we could be,and I always pick cold places, and we almost went to a school in Montreal, actually.That's a bit of another story, but I was like, it could be Alaska, it could be Maine, it could be Canada, and I never even thought about warmer places, and it ended up being Phoenix, and so it was an opportunity to get my foot in the door and begin teaching. So I knew to find a job in higher education, in seminary education specifically, I was gonna have to be open to moving anywhere.Matt Wireman00:07:45 - 00:07:55Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. So you were teaching systematic theology and church history.Well, your major was systematic theology, was it, or was it church history?Brian Arnold00:07:55 - 00:08:00I'm Church History, so I study under Michael Haken and particularly Church Fathers.Matt Wireman00:08:00 - 00:08:23Okay, and then you moved to Phoenix in 2014, became the president. Can you walk us through that process? Like, I mean, that's a big jump. So you found yourself more in administrative type meetings. But what was it, I mean, to go from that to, you know, to go from just being in meetings to being a president is a pretty significant change. So walk us through.Brian Arnold00:08:23 - 00:08:45When I was dean for about two months. Does that count? Say what? That I was dean for about two months before I became president. So yeah, it's a bit of a convoluted story. Our president, who'd been here for 23 years, had even been one of the founders of it back in 1988.Matt Wireman00:08:45 - 00:08:47Dr. Del Husey, is that right? That's right.Brian Arnold00:08:46 - 00:12:05That's right. You have Dr. Darolda who say he had been pastor of Scottsdale Bible Church, which is probably one of the first big mega church churches in America. And so his background was more in church ministry, but he recognized even back in 1988, Phoenix is growing. Most people would be surprised, but it's the fifth largest city in the United States. And so here you have a city that's booming and there's no place to get a seminary education. So all of our best and brightest, most talented pastor candidates are leaving to go to seminary and they don't come back. So we need something here. And we were actually a branch campus of Western Seminary in our founding and they were independent from them around 1994 or so. So I was following a pretty long presidency of Dr. Del Jose, which is already a challenge in and of itself for somebody who's that deeply ingrained here. Now he serves as the chancellor and we've got a great relationship, really thankful for him. But he even recognized that they needed somebody who had more of an academic background to take it to the next level. And hesaid, I'm just waiting for somebody to come in and say they want my job. This is my first six months at Phoenix Seminary. And I walked down to his office, I said, I love your job. And I was just kidding. And I said, I'm kidding about that. I just, I know myself, I see myself more gifted and bent towards administration and leadership. So I would love to be mentored by you and really get to understand what higher education looks like from a leadership position. And so early on in my tenure here, I was really getting involved in the leadership aspects. I helped lead us through a major curriculum change. We had a bunch of two hour classes, we moved to three hour class system. So that gave me a lot of understanding in our workings. And through all that, I was coming up under Bing Hunter, our previous provost and dean, and was kind of gearing up for that position. Well, at the same time, the presidency was coming open. And I wanted to throw my hat in the ring because I see so much potential here. I'm very thankful for where Dr. Del Jose brought us. But I also recognize we really can get to the next level here and establish ourselves as one of the major theological institutions in the West, especially the Southwest. And when you think about where Phoenix is located, we're pretty good distance away from a lot of other seminaries. We're back east, they kind of seem to pile up on top of each other. So there's a lot of even geographically speaking, room here to grow. And to really, I tell all of our team all the time, I'm asking people just to grab some basket and pick the low hanging fruit. I mean, we're here with Arizona State University, which is the largest undergrad, GCU, which is now the largest Christian undergrad,we've got a great relationship with Arizona Christian University. So I saw all these things, I kept thinking, how can we grow this potential? And as the inside guy, I knew where our challenges were, I knew where our threats and our opportunities were. And so I just wanted to make a case to the board and say, as the inside guy, I know how to tweak some dials right now, they can get us moving in the right direction. And I think it was a long shot. I was a long shot, I think, from the very beginning of the whole process. And from what I understand, just kept kind of making it through to the next level to the next level to the next level until especially I got to be able to presentMatt Wireman00:12:05 - 00:12:08Survive in advance, right?Brian Arnold00:12:08 - 00:13:53It really is exactly what it felt like. But we used Carter Baldwin, which is an executive search firm. When the rep, you get to the round of eight or nine or so, he flies around the country to meet with you wherever you're at. So we flew back out to Phoenix and we sat down to meet for our interview. His very first question, at the time I was 35, he said, you're 35, you don't have much higher education experience. Why now? You're coming into Dean's role. Why not just learn that and climb the ranks that way? I said to him, honestly, for me, it's an issue of gifting. The gifting and skill set, you need to be a really accomplished dean. A lot of times, it's a very different skill set to be a successful president. Deans are a lot of times, they're the ones that are keeping the trains moving and they're really keeping you within the lanes of accreditation and assessment and all those different pieces with the DOE and ATS and ensuring that the institution is healthy from that vantage point. I see myself more as the big picture visionary. I want to be out there preaching. I want to be casting vision. I want to be meeting with donors. Because for me, donor relationships are not only a great opportunity for pastoral ministry, but it's also a chance to just explain what my heart is and vision is for the seminary, and see if they want to partner with us. When I just look at skill set wise, I saw myself having a better skill set for the presidency. I said, that may come across arrogant, I don't mean it to. It really is just about finding the right seat on the bus for each person. I think I could sit in the presidency and do okay. Here we are.Matt Wireman00:13:53 - 00:14:46So here we are. Yeah, well, I know it's very exciting, very exciting. I'm really thankful that you're in that presidency. Because one of the things that I love about your story is that you said you could be totally content serving at a local church. You know, and a lot of times, even within higher education, Christian higher education, even, that there can be this sense of climbing the corporate ladder, you know, paying your dues and then being entitled to being a successor and all these things. But I love that you framed it and saying, I would have been content and happy and would have lived a fruitful life being a pastor in a town that people hadn't heard of, because that's valuable. Because one of the things that's unique about Phoenix Seminary, what's the tagline or the mission statement for Phoenix? This is a quiz. This is a quiz.Brian Arnold00:14:45 - 00:14:48No problem. Scholarship at the Shepherd's Heart.Matt Wireman00:14:48 - 00:15:36Yeah, so I would love for you to reflect on, not only as the president, but as a formerpastor, as someone who has a pastor's heart, a shepherd's heart, what is that relationship that you view, and you could view it in both sides, because you've had both hats on, of what that relationship is between a seminary and the church. So much of the theological fighting that took place in many of the seminaries took place because there was a divorcing of, or a assuming of, roles as opposed to a tight relationship between the seminary and the church. So I'd love for you to just reflect on why the seminary is valuable to the local church, and why then the local church is valuable to a seminary.Brian Arnold00:15:36 - 00:18:31Absolutely. I think we have to begin with what is God's plan for humanity? And a big part of that is the church. Jesus died for his bride. It is the church. That's his plan for the world. That's his mission for the world. And so I think it's important for people in my position now to always remember that we are really the quartermasters. We're the ones behind, we're off the front lines. We're equipping, we're preparing, we're training, we're sending out. But really the battlefield's out there in the mission field of the church. And so I'm very happy to be recognizing my backseat role as a parachurch ministry, helping undergird God's plan for the world. And what helped me with that is that I've been in both worlds. So I realized very quickly in my pastorate that had I not had a seminary education, I would have been in a tough spot. So why is that? Like, yeah. Yeah. So we moved to Smithland in June of 2012. And we already had a vacation that was going to be planned. So we went on that and I'm on the beach on the East Coast. And I get this phone call from one of my deacons and he was a deacon and his dad was a deacon. And he said, Hey, I just want you to know, my father's kidneys are failing. And we don't know what that's going to mean for him. My wife was just diagnosed with breast cancer and my daughter's best friend just committed suicide. And I remember sitting there on the beach thinking, okay, that was the shortest ministry honeymoon in the history of humanity. I haven't even like really landed there yet. And this is already, I'm already recognizing how messy ministry is and you're really entering into broken lives of people. Well, I was going to be preaching through Philippians first off. And here I am at a local small Southern Baptist church in Western Kentucky preaching three times a week, Sunday morning, Sunday night, Wednesday night. And I'd probably preached 10 times total before I took that position. So in my first month, I'm going to be preaching more than I've preached my entire life. And I'm going through Philippians, all of a sudden you get to Philippians two pretty quickly and you get this issue of kenosis. What does it mean that Jesus emptied himself? If I had a seminary training, the background, understanding my Christology, you can get to a text like that. It's going to take you forever to walk through the challenges that present you in that text. But I was so thankful because the seminary education put me that much further ahead, even to my own preparation and study that I was used to exegeting the text when I came totheological challenges. It wasn't the first time I'd seen them or thought through them before. So that actually freed me up to do more ministry in the church because I had a deeper understanding of the text already. Does that make sense? So, yeah.Matt Wireman00:18:29 - 00:19:32Yeah, yeah. I mean, yeah, you're not having to try to figure out like so many times I talk to guys who, you know, are in the middle of seminary training or haven't had seminary training and then they, yeah, great, great example, Philippians 2, and they're like, I didn'tknow this was an issue. And then they read one guy and they're like, I think I agree with that. And then they read another guy and they're like, I think I agree with that too. And they're like diametrically opposed to each other. And you're like, well, that will make a dramatic effect on how you for one read all of Philippians and then the entire New Testament and those kinds of things. So yeah, I hear you. And along with that, just a little side note, a lot of times people ask, well, how long does it take you to prepare a sermon? It's like, well, you know, each sermon has got, you know, 20 years of teaching behind it, you know, 20 years of education behind it. It's not something that I just kind of whip up over, you know, in a week. It's something that there is a lot of training that's going behind every single sermon. So it's kind of a misnomer to say, well, how long is your sermon prep? It's like, well, it's a couple decades. That's right.Brian Arnold00:19:31 - 00:20:06That's right. Exactly. David Allen Black says the pastor should be like an iceberg. People see the top 10% above the water, but they know that there's 90% below it as well. But I don't know that we've really helped people in the church see just how important that is or they're not connecting those dots. You know, this is not a knock on where I was coming from and I pastor it. But a lot of the pastors in Western Kentucky did not have a theological education. And I knew some of them who'd show up to church on Sunday morning, do like a flip open method of sermon prep, wherever they open the Bible. It's like, Hey, that's.Matt Wireman00:20:05 - 00:20:12like, Hey, that's, you're not, you're not exaggerating. Right? I mean, this is like, cause people joke about that, but there were people actually doing it.Brian Arnold00:20:12 - 00:20:54who did that down the road from where I was a pastor. And just to show you this, this is not to pat myself on the back, it's to pat seminary education on the back. That's right, that's right, that's right. Is I had a guy who my very first Sunday was my sermon I was preaching to get hired at the church. He's about 75, he graduated by the army. And this guy could have taken me. He's a strong, tough guy. And he pulls me to the side and he goes, we don't need a preacher. Those are a dime a dozen. We need a pastor. Do you understand what I'm telling you? And I was like, yes, sir, I know exactly what you mean. And he wanted to know that as I was coming into my late 20s, that I was going to love people, be there with them, to walk through suffering. Absolutely. I mean, that's my heart. I want to do that.Matt Wireman00:20:22 - 00:20:23That's right, that's right, that's right.Brian Arnold00:20:54 - 00:22:52Same guy, we have a great relationship, but he's not much of a talker over the next three years while I'm pastoring. My very last Sunday, he grabs me again and pulls me to the side. I doubt he even remembered that initial conversation. And he said to me, I've been in the church for 50 years, and I've never learned as much or gone deeper in my walk with Christ or understood the Bible as much as I have these last three years. I only tell that story to say, and I'll tell this to my students, is don't underestimate the power of opening God's Word and preaching through it in an expository way. God will change lives doing that. But it was my seminary education that helped me do that. And even if my church couldn't articulate it, it's like, why is our church... We were growing in a really healthy way. Other churches, you could tell people were like, okay, these people at Smith and First are really getting fed. And I wasn't sitting there drawing the lines all the time for them. But when I left, I tried to help encourage the deacon saying, think about what you said about the preaching ministry here is because I was seminary trained. So go back to that pond and fish again. Because I knew quite literally, there's a couple thousand people just down the road who love the Lord, are committed to the gospel, and have the right type of training to do it. So now on my side of things, that makes me even more passionate, having been a pastor for a couple years, knowing what I needed in the pastorate. And now I can help deliver and train that for other people who are now... You're starting to see students come back and say, oh my goodness, you're right.This is having a significant impact on my ministry. I see guys here, Matt, who have been in ministry for 20 years who are now coming back and getting seminary education, who are lamenting that. And they're saying, I put the cart before the horse. I really wish I had known 20 years ago what I know now. My ministry would have been different.Matt Wireman00:22:52 - 00:24:16Yeah. Well, I'd like to revisit this relationship between the church and the seminary and just your diagnosis of why there is, in some ways, you know, a dumbing down of the pastorate in some ways of where people are like, we don't need all that education. It's like, well, I don't know why the person has to have a Southern accent. You know, Southerners, we get beat up on sometimes. But, you know, you want to say you can preach, period. Like there's a beauty in saying, you know, if God has called you to preach, preach. And yet at the same time, we want to bridle that horse up and be able to say there's a lot of good here. But I just have found like a lot of times people are very quick, and I'm sure medical doctors get this too and lawyers get this too, where people are like, I know you studied for like 20 years, but I read this. I've got a webMD. Yeah, exactly. And a lot of times that happens at the church too, but in some ways, we havebeen the cause of that problem by saying education is not important. So I'd love for you to just kind of tease out a little bit more like how you see the seminary serving the local church.Brian Arnold00:24:16 - 00:27:36Absolutely. And this argument is trotted out quite a bit, but I think it's important. Andyou kind of said it there, people expect their doctors and lawyers to have a certain levelof training because what they're doing is of great importance. How much more the careof souls, the shepherding of people's eternity, and for people to know and understand things. Yeah, there's been a historic challenge here, at least in the last couple of hundred years between the seminary and the church. And when you think back over time, a lot of the people who were most theologically trained were week in and week out pastors. If you think about the Reformation, you think about people like Martin Luther and John Calvin, these guys were pastors who were also leaders in theology. It's really not almost until the Enlightenment where you begin to see a wedge put between the seminary and the church as higher education because of its own kind of thing, where you might have seminary professors who have not been pastors before. And so I think that even then leads further to people seeing a greater divide between them. I think it's everybody kind of knowing those places. So as I mentioned before, recognizing, yes, the church is God's purpose for the world, but there's substantial training that a pastor must have in order to faithfully execute that office. It's a high office that God has called upon. When you think about somebody like Paul man, right, he's converted. He's already well-trained and yet he secludes himself kind of more training. Even think about the apostles before they're sent off in Matthew 28. Jesus is with them for three years. I mean, that's a pretty solid seminary education that they're receiving. And Christian history for the last 2,000 years has been deeply invested in education and recognizing that we are touching sacred things and people need to know those. And so if seminaries recognize their parachurch status more and the recognition that local churches simply cannot do what seminaries can do. I know very few churches, maybe if any, where you have somebody you could teach Greek, Hebrew, systematics, church history, evangelism and discipleship, world missions, all the different things that you kind of get from a seminary education, local church can do this. So the idea is, right, there's a hub of education that many churches can pour into and get trained from and then they get sent back out to their churches. Working together in tandem like that with the recognition that a seminary should be chosen by a student if that seminary is deeply invested in the work of the local church. I mean, if they're not and they're just actually a think tank or an ivory tower, then don't go there. But if a seminary is actually saying, look, our heartbeat is for the local church, that is what God has given us. All we want to do is give you those tools that you can't get from the local church and let us equip you in those ways and then we'll send you right back. Hopefully, we're on fire for God. Hopefully, deeper in their ability to handle the text, more aware of how to do actual practical ministry, all these different pieces so that they don't get this divided. I mean, the saddest stories are oh, Johnny was a great preacher before he went to seminary or, you know, Bill was so in love with the Lord and then he went to seminary.Matt Wireman00:27:36 - 00:27:44What happens to those guys? Why is that sometimes part of the narrative, you think?Brian Arnold00:27:45 - 00:28:43It's a great question. Partly, I often wonder if it's a straw man kind of argument. I mean, you and I were at Southern Together. When I think back, whenever I'd hear people talk bad about seminary, and I'm thinking, I'm with these guys who love the Lord and are bringing their education to the pew week in and week out. I never understood that. I never understood why people say those things. And chances are, a lot of times it was going to be a person who was going to be a bad fit for ministry anyway. Seminary can't, if I can say this, maybe you'll have to edit this part out later, I don't know. But seminary cannot take a weirdo and make them not a weirdo. Right? Seminary can't take somebody who has no actual gifting from the Lord in pastoral ministry and somehow do that. I mean, there's spiritual gifts involved in this as well. Sometimes I think seminaries unfairly bear the brunt of criticism that we're not responsible for.Matt Wireman00:28:43 - 00:29:53Yeah, and in some ways, like people, you know, one of the things at Southern, and I don't know if Phoenix does this or not, I'd like to know, but you know, you have to get a reference from your church that you're a member at. And I think, and I'm afraid that many churches are not doing the hard work of saying, hey, brother, you probably need to get some humility before you go to seminary because there'll be some classes and I know you were in these classes too, not you, you weren't doing this, but there were guys in classes, I was like, I would never be a congregant in that man's church because he is abrasive, he is proud and everyone sees it. And then the seminary is supposed to miraculously just say, hey, you shouldn't be a pastor. It's like, that's not the seminary's job. It's just really frustrating that, you know, the talking heads or the, you know, the heads on a stick as it were, that gets to be the misnomer for seminaries when in fact, it's taking, you know, what Paul said, a fan in the flame, the gift that was given to you and how you do that, well, you put more fodder on the fire and how you do that, you get more training, you get more education to be able to do that.Brian Arnold00:29:54 - 00:31:24Absolutely. Yeah, they should be people that the church is already saying, we see the call of God on your life. And, you know, one of the ways this does go sideways sometimes, Matt, and this is a sad situation is where people are deeply involved and invested in their local church. People do recognize the gift that God has given them. They want them to fan it into flame. They recognize their need for education. They go to seminary and they stop being that involved in their local church. That happens, I think that's a record for disaster, right? So, one of the things that I'm passionate about as a president here is even mentoring. So, one of the things that I did love about Phoenix Seminary as soon as I came here is that every student has a mentor. And I've not really seen that in other seminaries before. And that's one of the areas we're going to be investing in a lot more in the next year or two. But I think about even these books on pastoral calling. The one that always sticks out to me is Paul David Tripp's, Dangerous Calling. And on the original cover, there's five endorsements on the back. Three of them aren't in ministry anymore. On a book on how dangerous pastoral ministry is. So, why are we seeing all these ministries implode? And everybody looks to me as though we're the sole solution. Now, we're going to do everything we can to help bridge that, to remind people that as deep as they go, or maybe as high as they go in academic theology, they need to go deeper into the roots of their spirituality.Matt Wireman00:31:24 - 00:32:01Trust me, just seminaries are not giving people passes. They're not rubber stamping people. They're trying to do their due diligence, teaching students humility by giving them accommodating grades. So, this is actually average or below average, go do work.So, the seminaries are...the ones who are, like you said, embedded within and see theirmission as a parachurch ministry are hugely...are very successful in what they do, but people can't start imputing upon the seminary what they ought to be doing, which is not part of their charter, right? Absolutely.Brian Arnold00:32:01 - 00:33:08That's right. But this is a big fight out there right now and debate between some theologians of what's the seminary's role in these things. And I just see a vicious cycle of churches that are not doing a good job of discipleship because a lot of their pastors were never personally discipled. I was and it changed my life. A lot of people have never had that. And then they go to seminary and they don't really learn that because the seminary says, well, it's not my job. And then we wonder why the local church isn't doing it. And they're producing people who've never seen it. And we're in this pattern.And so I want to just say, what can we do at Phoenix Seminary to just help break someof this pattern to say, look at how powerful and impactful personal mentoring can be.Now, in your church, now that you have this theological education, you've been mentored, how do you start almost like a master's plan of evangelism? I'm going to disciple my elders and deacons. And now they're going to take two or three people and they're going to disciple them. Where would our churches be? That was true. And then even thinking, you know, some people want to use the seminary like it's a Sundayschool class or something, right? Like I want to know more about theology, so I'm going to go to the seminary.Matt Wireman00:32:02 - 00:32:03That's right. That's right. But this is a big.Brian Arnold00:33:09 - 00:33:34I'm fine to train those people. That's great. Come, we'll give you a great education. But what I'm hoping is I'm putting out pastors who can take that to their church and equip the saints for the work of the ministry. So we just have this, you know, I think you used this term earlier, this dumbing down all over the place of where pastors think that what people need is something other than doctrine and theology.Matt Wireman00:33:34 - 00:35:33And other than a good kick in the pants. Yeah, at times. In that, you know, no, you did not exegete this passage appropriately. No, that word does not mean that. And no, you cannot do that. You know, like being able to help push people to say, no, no, no, we are, like you said, I thought so well put that we are shepherding souls. And there is a lot at stake. Most of the people that I have heard of and have met that have been hurt by people are by those who have not gone through the rigors of some kind of training ground. Now, it doesn't necessarily have to be a seminary. It could be a church-based training ground, but some kind of training ground as opposed to like, hey, you know, this is, you know, Johnny Preacher that feels called. And I think in so many ways, people, there are many wounded Christians because they haven't, folks haven't done the hard work of being challenged and having to come up with a biblical explanation of why they believe exe regarding this practice that they believe. That's right. You know, and I do wonder too, if in some ways the seminary is inundated with Christians who love Jesus, but who are not called to ministry because the particularly evangelical church, since that's our context, has not done a good job of heralding vocation. And what I mean by that is, you know, being able to say, hey, what are you passionate about? Did you know that you can serve Jesus faithfully as an electrician, faithfully as a plumber, faithfully as a doctor and a lawyer? Because I remember when I was in college, if you were really sold out for Jesus, you went into full-time ministry. So, you know, I've interfaced with several folks who are like, I don't know if you're called to preaching. Well, I don't think you're called to preaching ministry, but I think you're called to ministry, but your bread and butter may be from somewhere else.Brian Arnold00:35:34 - 00:37:35Absolutely. Yeah. And there's been a lot of confusion. There's been some good work recently, I think, that's overcoming some of those kind of stereotypical type of pieces that we felt when we were coming up through the ranks. It was one of the issues, though, the Phoenix Seminary, I would say, if there was a little bit of mission drift, it was more towards training people who just felt the lack of solid theological teaching in their local churches. One of the things we have in Phoenix is you will have the hour-long worship service, and a lot of times, that's it. There's no Sunday night. Wednesday night, I might have kids and youth kind of ministry things, but nothing for the adults, and then small group ministry. And we've all been helped by small groups. I think those kinds of communities are really great for developing deep relationships with people. But what's missing in the churches now is that educational element where people just don't knowthe basics of the Christian faith anymore. So, even when a person says, I've been really involved in this church, I feel called to ministry, and then they come to seminary, they don't know anything because their churches have never really invested in that. It's one of the interesting trends I think we need to keep an eye on is how many churches are kind of returning to a Sunday school type of model, recognizing the vacuum that's been left when people don't know what the Trinity is and don't know who Jesus is and don't understand salvation. We go down the list, and we have a very illiterate church population today. And this is the wrong time to have that. With the challenges that are happening in society, we need people to know the faith better than ever because there's no cultural assumptions anymore. And in that kind of hostile environment,Christians are gonna have to either know the word deeply or they're gonna be swept away in the time. And that would be really concerned for the kids. And so, yeah, we all know these issues, right?Matt Wireman00:37:34 - 00:38:47Yeah, no, it bears explicating because I think a lot of people know that there's something in the water that's not tasting right, and to be able to call it and say, no, that's arsenic. Or, you know, that will kill you if you drink it because that's...I mean, evenpart of my own story when I was serving overseas, I could smell heresy when I was talking to different pastors at different churches, but I couldn't articulate, oh, that's a heresy because that is the kenotic theory. You know, I couldn't do that, whereas, you know, seminary helped to do that for me. You know, I'd love to, as a seminary president, you're sitting down with someone who loves Jesus and is in a vocation other than being a pastor or a missionary or going into seminary. And they're like, I just want to grow in my faith. My church doesn't have, you know, Sunday school. My church doesn't...like, what you just articulated. So how would you counsel someone who doesn't feel called to pastoral or missionary work but wants to grow in their faith? Are there any books or are there different avenues that they could go down that you would encourage them to get better trained?Brian Arnold00:38:47 - 00:40:12Dr. Seheult- That's a great question, Matt. We are living in a time of great resources.When you think about what's being put out all the time, either through technology oreven through book medium, there's just a lot of helpful things out there. So I would encourage this person in a number of ways. One, if they're looking at any kind of leadership in the church, from deacon to elder, any kind of position like that, I would say seminary education would be really beneficial. You might not need the full MDiv, but getting in and getting kind of a Master of Arts in Ministry that gives you a lot of the groundwork would be really helpful. But again, for the person who just says, I'm an electrician, but I'm passionate about the Lord, I want to know more. I would encourage them to start with one of my colleagues' books, actually, and that's Systematic Theology by Wayne Grudem. He's got the second edition coming out in December. And so lots more content. And I think that's where I cut my teeth theologically. And I know there's places that people disagree with Wayne on some things. I do too. But it's still, I think, the most readable, helpful entree into theology. So I think starting there to get the kind of the whole picture of theology through the Bible is helpful. And then I would even encourage some intro kind of books to the New Testament and to the Old Testament, things like Carson and Moo on the New Testament to give them those kinds of pieces.Matt Wireman00:40:12 - 00:40:22You're talking about their introduction to the New Testament, right? Absolutely. Google it, Amazon or introduction to the Old Testament. Those are just surveys of those different books.Brian Arnold00:40:22 - 00:41:05Yep, yep. The Faith of Israel by Dumbrell might be a great place to start with the Old Testament. But as a Dominion of Dynasty by Dempster would be another great place to start with the Old Testament. So there's all these resources. And then whoever you want to teach you today, you can find it on YouTube. You can go there and get a lot of great content from some of the best teachers in the world a click away. And so take advantage of yourself those resources. What we can't say is there's not enough resources. Like there's plenty of those. We might say there's not enough time and then I'd ask about your Netflix, binging, you know, we can certainly binge some other things as well that would be more helpful and beneficial to the soul.Matt Wireman00:41:05 - 00:41:34And so some of it too is along with those resources, I've found that there are a lot of folks that feel like they're swimming in a sea of resources and they don't know which are the good ones to be able to find a someone that you trust. And I'm going to avail myself to anybody who's listening to this and I know you would too, Brian, but like, you know, if you need help and direction, just send me a message and happy to happy to direct you because there are tons of resources and there's tons of really bad resources to run.Brian Arnold00:41:34 - 00:41:47That's exactly right. One of the things, I'm happy you said that, Matt. One of the things that, when I got the bug for theology in college, my roommates and I, we'd always get the CBD catalog. Maybe that dates me a little bit.Matt Wireman00:41:46 - 00:41:51Yeah, no, it's still going strong. I still need to get up on there.Brian Arnold00:41:51 - 00:41:57Catalog, why I still use CBD for four. And then, by the way, let's just tell the listeners that's not the oil.Matt Wireman00:41:57 - 00:42:04Yeah, that's not the oil. That's Christian Book Distributors. CVD. That's right. Not O-R-D or something.Brian Arnold00:42:05 - 00:42:51Absolutely. When my wife said, you know what CBD is? I'm like, I've been shopping there for years. Let's clarify that. But that's a great place to get resources. But I can remember getting that and seeing some Old Testament books, especially Gerhard von Raad's Old Testament Theology. It was like six bucks. And I'm thinking, I don't know much about the Old Testament. I really would love a book to help with that. But I knew enough about that name to say, I need to be suspicious. That might not be the best resource. But I don't know what is. When there's almost too many resources, you go to LifeWay, and if I can say this without getting in trouble, a lot of the resources that are fronted there are the last things I would encourage people to read. You got to go back into the back into a small corner section to find the real gems there.Matt Wireman00:42:51 - 00:43:21Well, you know what's been interesting even in the resources that you mentioned is not10 ways to be a better husband or 10 steps to be a more biblical wife. It's actually learn the Bible. That's the dearth of information that we're having a problem with is that people don't know where Malachi is in the Bible. And they don't know that he was a prophet. And they don't know all these things. It's like, get to know the Bible. That's the first place you should start.Brian Arnold00:43:20 - 00:44:21Absolutely. Absolutely. And then, you know, so one of the things that was great for mewith seminary education was I'm learning to even know what the resources are. Like, that was a big part of it for me is now I feel like I can pick things up, know where theywent to school, know when they went to school there, and get a pretty good picture already of where they may stand. And then you get the grid, right, for being able to filtersome things out. But also, I hope you're at a church, and this is another plug for seminary education, where the pastor has a seminary education, who can help provide those resources, who knows those things. So I hope you're at a place where your staff is able to do that. In the meantime, if not, find somebody who is that you trust, and they would be happy. Any time that people come to me and they say, can I get a resource on X, whatever that is, that is one of the things that give me the greatest joy in answering, because that tells me there's another Christian out there who really wants to go deeper with the Lord, and I'm always happy to help resource.Matt Wireman00:44:21 - 00:44:41Yeah, yeah, no, that's great. Now, so for the person who is at a church and they feel like they want to go into full-time ministry, can you just kind of walk through how does someone come to that decision to where they're like, I think I should be a pastor or a missionary?Brian Arnold00:44:41 - 00:44:47Absolutely. I mean, step one, ps.edu, you apply online.Matt Wireman00:44:47 - 00:44:52And he will waive your admission fee.Brian Arnold00:44:52 - 00:44:57Just mention Matt Wireman in the comments or something. No, it's a great...Matt Wireman00:44:56 - 00:44:58No, it's a great. Yeah.Brian Arnold00:44:58 - 00:47:11I wrestled with that as well. I mean, here I was in fire EMS. My dad had been a fire chief.That's the world I knew. And I didn't even think I could have been satisfied in a career doing that. I know CH Spurgeon is often used, if you could do anything else besides ministry, do it. I don't really agree with Spurgeon on that one. Because of why? Well, because I think that a lot of people who do well in ministry are people of deep curiosity and they love a lot of different things and they themselves given 10 lives doing 10 different things. Well put. Right. So I would say that God calls people to ministry and it's not unique to me. It's kind of the historic answer in two ways, the internal call and the external call. The internal call is when you start to say, Lord, is that you calling me to ministry? Like, I feel a passion for this. I want to teach the Bible. When I was in seminary, or I'm sorry, my undergrad, one of the biggest kind of moments in my early life was sitting at a Bible study in Campus Crusade and my campus director is there and he's leading us through Colossians. And I remember thinking, you get paid to teach people the Bible. That's amazing. Like, I would love to do that. That's what I'm so interested and passionate about. So I had that internal call. And then I started going to other people and saying, do you see this gift in me? Could we give me some teaching opportunities where we can actually see, is this there? And could God use me in this way? And I had three or four people in my life who are still in my life to this day that all affirmed that. And so I know that question's more for, should I go into ministry? But even for me with PhD work, I remember Dr. Russ Fuller sitting me down in his office and saying, I think you should consider doing PhD work. And that was a great confirmation to me that I should move on. So I, when weighting these things, more often weigh the external call higher than the internal call because I can be deceived. But chances are, if I'm asking four or five other mature believers, do you see this call of God in my life? And they're being honest, you're going to get some really good answers to that.Matt Wireman00:47:12 - 00:48:38And I think for that person to start with a posture of, I don't see clearly, and God has given other people to me in my life to help me see clearly. Because a lot of times, you know, folks will ask me like, I think I'm called the ministry. And I'm like, well, that's awesome. Celebrate, first of all. And I don't want to stiff arm anybody in that. No, that's right. We need more laborers. But then secondly, listen to somebody that cares for you and actually is in the work of that ministry to say, hey, maybe instead of going to seminary right now, maybe you could just be here for a couple years and get some relational tools in your belt, you know, so that you can learn like, what is it you're getting into? Because maybe in two years of volunteering at a church, you know, and it's not just to get free labor for people, it's actually in a service to them to be able to say, hey, why don't you just serve here as a volunteer, because if you don't want to do it as a volunteer, then you're probably not, it's going to be even more tainted when you get paid for it. I promise you that. If you're not willing to not be paid for this, then it's going to get tainted really fast. I've seen tons of people in full time ministry who depend upon full time ministry for their salaries, and their lives become a shipwreck, because they start to treat God and divine matters as a slot machine, you know, andBrian Arnold00:48:38 - 00:49:00Absolutely. And there's not much in that slot machine. Let's just say that as well. I mean,ministry, it was really hard. I mean, I had breakfast with my wife this morning and we were just kind of going over some different pieces and remembering back to my years in pastoral ministry when things were exceptionally brutally tight. And it was a challenge.Matt Wireman00:49:00 - 00:49:07As you're getting a call about a man who just, you know, has all of those things going on in his life, right? Yeah, yeah.Brian Arnold00:49:07 - 00:50:06Yeah, exactly. And recognizing that there were times that I just needed to keep going back to 1st Corinthians 9. Woe to me if I don't preach the gospel. Like, it has to be so deep-seated in you. And this is where I will tip the hat to Spurgeon a little bit and say I get why he's saying that. Because there has to be that fire in the belly. Even if I'm not getting paid for it, even if I'm booted out of two or three churches, God has put such a call in my life, I must preach the gospel. I want to see the harvest field full of those kinds of laborers who just say, I'm here because God has called me here. And even if I don't get converts, and even if I run into wall after wall and obstacle after obstacle, God has called me to preach and I'm going to do it. And I think back about people like the Puritans as they were getting kicked out of their ministries and then you have the Five Mile Act. They couldn't be within five miles of their old parishes. And yet they're still preachers of the gospel. We need more of that in our day.Matt Wireman00:50:07 - 00:50:20Yeah, that's great. I'd love to ask what you see as a president of a seminary, what you see are some of the challenges to higher education right now, particularly as it relates to seminary education?Brian Arnold00:50:20 - 00:53:22Sure. I think there's multiple, and there are internal threats and there's external threats as well. The internal threats are a lot of what you and I have been talking about today, Matt, and that is back 20 or 30 years ago, if you were gonna go into pastoral ministry, you would not find a position without having a degree. A master of divinity degreewould have been the bare requirement expected of somebody to go in. Well, now, churches don't really seem to care about that or, you know, an undergrad degree will suffice if it's in Bible. But let's be honest, a lot of pastors don't even have that. They were in banking and felt a call on their life. And so that's part of it from where I'm sittingis how many people in churches I see who don't even care about that minimal level of expertise in the field. So that's one of those kinds of threats, I think. Another one, and these go more to external than, is there's a higher ed bubble out there anyway. And everybody kind of sees this out there as the next one that could burst. And if it bursts, that's gonna be catastrophic on undergraduate institutions. Well, I'm downstream of undergraduate institutions. So if there's fewer and fewer people going to undergrad institutions, then there's gonna be fewer people going to graduate school as well. And so I think that could be a place where we begin to take a bit of pressure and a bit of a hit with enrollment that way. I think part of it is gonna be the cultural piece. It's not getting any easier out there. I think Christian institutions in particular that are going to stay faithful on issues of gender and sexuality are going to have a very difficult road ahead of them. And this is where I hope that the Lord gives us the fulfillment of this. And that is, I hope there's always a Phoenix Seminary. If we had to lose our accreditation because of our stances on some of those issues, then so be it. If we lose a lot of donor money because of our stances, then so be it. If it's just us without walls, we're going into a church basement somewhere and teaching theology, I hope there's always something like that. I think about a guy like Dietrich Bonhoeffer with Fingermann. He's, what do you do in the midst of Nazi Germany oppression? You start a seminary, right? It's amazing. The thing that people would think, well, that needs to go. It's like, no, no, no, we need this now more than ever. So all the threats that I see, those being some of the major ones, I still believe that what we are called to do at a seminary is vital for the health and vitality of the church. And as long as the church is here, we're going to need places of theological higher ed to help prepare those people in the word. So I don't worry about the threats too much. I mean, we got to be wise and anticipate some of those things that are coming and get ready. But at the same time, I think our call is always going to be there.Matt Wireman00:53:23 - 00:53:39That's great. I'd love to hear, I got two more questions for you. Just as you explain some of the challenges to higher ed, particularly Christian higher ed and seminaries, what do you see as some of the greater challenges to the church, to the local church now?Brian Arnold00:53:41 - 00:55:19Yeah, a lot of those would be the same kind of ones, right? Is the pressure right now to conform to the world has probably not been greater in American society since our founding, right? I mean, this is a very new shift in Western civilization. And so I can't imagine being a 12-year-old right now about ready to go to junior high and high school, facing the kind of pressures that these kids are facing from a worldview standpoint. And I think churches have not been well equipped to speak into those. And so they're getting a lot of it from culture, not from the church. Well, pretty soon the churches are going to be far emptier than they are now because of just attrition to the culture. So I think that's a real serious, not existential threat because Jesus has promised that the church will not be overcome by the gates of hell. And I believe that promise and I'm not worried about the church from that aspect, but I do think the harder times are coming for the church. But a lot of that to me goes back and maybe I sound like a one-trick pony on this, but I think the deeper that a pastor is able to go and root people in, then it doesn't matter how hard the winds blow, those people will stay rooted. My fear is that we are seeing in the church these trends coming. And so instead of raising the bar, we keep lowering the bar and wondering why people don't hit it and wondering why peopleare leaving, but we're not giving them a beautiful counter narrative to it at all.Matt Wireman00:55:19 - 00:55:22Lowering the bar in what sense?Brian Arnold00:55:21 - 00:55:55Well, even kind of what we're talking about, right? Why is it that the saints of God know so little about the Bible? Why do they know so little about theology? Why is it when Ligonier comes out with these surveys that they do, they had one question in there, it was a couple of years ago now, maybe just a year or two, it was something about Jesus's humanity was Jesus, like, you know, basically was denying the divinity of Christ,almost like an Aryan kind of response. And I don't know if it was the way the question was worded or something, but it was like 75% of people who took it look like they were Aryans. That should never be.Matt Wireman00:55:55 - 00:56:21And if you don't know what an Aryan is, that's A-R-I-A-N, go look it up. That's one way to look it up. If you don't know what something is, there are tons of resources to be able to just look it up. So if you're hearing this and you're like, Aryan? No, we're not talking about a nation or anything like that. We're talking about the Aryanism. So look up Aryanism and you'll find something. Even if it's on Wikipedia, that's better than nothing.Brian Arnold00:56:21 - 00:56:24That's right. That's right. Just don't become one.Matt Wireman00:56:23 - 00:56:25Yeah, exactly, exactly.Brian Arnold00:56:25 - 00:57:34So they're just not ready. And so we have this view in the church that these concepts are so hard, so big, so difficult. We don't want it to feel like school to people. So we would rather give them 10 steps, like you said before, of healthy parenting and marriage. And everybody wants these practical pieces without understanding the substance of the Christian faith, which is the greatest place for the practical piece of Christian ministry. Like the deeper I know God, the better my marriage is gonna be. The better I know the word, the better my parenting's gonna be. I don't need these offshoots. I need people to take me deeper into the things of God through his word so that I'm prepared to handle anything that comes at us. But instead, we keep moving that lower. And I'm always amazed when you have like an astrophysicist in your church who's like, oh, I just don't really understand the Bible. Look, one of the things that we believe is in the perspicuity of scriptures. Now that's like one of the worst named doctrines ever. It just means the Bible is clear and it should be able to be understood by anyone who calls himself a Christian. So I think oftentimes it's not for intellectual ability,it's lack of trying.Matt Wireman00:57:37 - 00:58:09This has been awesome. I'd love to have our time closed by just a final exhortation that you might give to those who are listening as it relates to knowing the Bible. I think you already have done that and I'm thankful for that, but I'd love to hear, like if you were to sit down with someone who's listening to this podcast and you were to exhort them towards greater love for Jesus, a greater love for the Bible, what would you say to them over a cup of coffee?Brian Arnold00:58:09 - 00:59:55Yeah, I think I would reiterate what I have just the last thing I said is, if you really want to grow as a disciple of Christ, it's by knowing Him. It's by loving His word. And so don't think that I need something else outside, you know, the 10 lessons on this or that to actually grow in the walk with the Lord. Get deeper into those things. When I was in college, my life changed when I got deeper into theology. When I got deeper into theology, my walk got deeper. When suffering came in my life, it was the deep rootedness of my knowledge of who God is that got me through, not little trinkets on the side. And so as a theological educator and as one who is pastored, be a person who seeks those deeper things of God. Be a person who, if you're a pastor listening, take your people deeper. If you're somebody who's at a church that they just simply are not going to do that, find a new church. Life is short. You've got to be at a place that is going to take these things to the utmost seriousness. And I think by doing that, Christianity itself will be able to present that beautiful counter narrative to what's happening out there. As the saints of God, know Him better, cherish His word, and recognize that true human flourishing comes through loving God with all heart, mind, soul, and strength, and loving neighbor as yourself.Matt Wireman00:59:56 - 01:00:10Amen. Great. Thank you so much, Brian. This has been really refreshing and encouraging to be able to have this time with you. I'd love to ask you if you could just end our time by praying and thanking God for our time together and, and yeah, and then we'll close.Brian Arnold 01:00:10 - 01:01:11I'd be happy to. Matt, thanks for having me. This is great. You bet. God, I do thank you for moments like this when we get to take an hour or so and just dwell on you and think about you. And I thank you for Matt and this podcast that he's doing to help try to equip these saints out there for anybody who's listening to know you and your word better.And Lord, I do pray that there will be an awakening in your church. An awakening begins with people who are so full of the Spirit because they're so full of the Word of God. And I pray for pastors in this labor field who will really get the tools that they need and recognize that those are not some additional thing. But these are actually the tools of our trade to get people into this place where they can really love you, heart, mind, soul, body, strength, and begin to love their neighbor. And that people in this culture that is decaying will see that the gospel is full of life and full of fruit. Praise in Christ's name. Amen. Amen.Matt Wireman01:01:11 - 01:01:13Amen. Thank you, brother.Brian Arnold01:01:13 - 01:01:14Thanks again. I appreciate it.

In today's episode, I discuss the upcoming Virtual Job Fair facilitated by the Career Design Center. I chat with two staff members in the center about what on-campus employment is, and the benefits it holds. If you have an incoming student who is interested in attending the Virtual Job Fair to secure on-campus employment early, please register at the link below.   Register for Virtual Job Fair: https://usu.joinhandshake.com/stu/career_fairs/39820?ref=events-search  New Student Orientation: https://www.usu.edu/orientation/locations/logan    Orientation Office Contact Information: 435-797-0283; orientation@usu.edu; Instagram@usuateam   USU First Semester Registration Guide: https://www.usu.edu/orientation/guides/   Registration Vocabulary: https://www.usu.edu/orientation/lingo     Guest(s):  Brianne Midgley – Student Employment Coordinator at USU Career Design Center  Kevin Schwemmin - Executive Director at USU Career Design Center 

In today's episode, I talk about our upcoming Summer and Fall 2023 registration. I share tips to help prepare over the next few weeks, including how to reach out to our office during registration week to get questions answered and make this a smooth process. New Student Orientation: https://www.usu.edu/orientation/locations/logan Orientation Office Contact Information: 435-797-0283; orientation@usu.edu Instagram @usuateam USU First Semester Registration Guide: https://www.usu.edu/orientation/guides/ Registration Vocabulary: https://www.usu.edu/orientation/lingo Guests: Garrett Hendrickson – Orientation Program Coordinator Courtney Condie – A-Team Member - Senior studying Kinesiology 

In today's episode I talk about the USU 1010 Connections course. We cover the big ideas of the class, the different formats that it is offered (pre-semester or semester 7-week), and tips for registering for the course in College Scheduler.    New Student Orientation: https://www.usu.edu/orientation/locations/logan    Orientation Office Contact Information: 435-797-0283; orientation@usu.edu; Instagram @usuateam   Register for USU 1010 Connections Tutorial: https://www.usu.edu/connections/logan/register 

In today's episode I talk about the different course delivery methods offered at USU and give some tips for planning your schedule. Fall 2023 registration starts April 10-14, 2023 so now is the time to plan ahead! New Student Orientation: https://www.usu.edu/orientation/locations/logan   Orientation Office Contact Information: 435-797-0283; orientation@usu.edu; Instagram @usuateam  USU Course Delivery Methods: https://www.usu.edu/registrar/scheduling/deliverymethods  

In today's episode I talk about our upcoming Summer and Fall 2023 registration. I share tips to help prepare over the next few weeks, including how to reach out to our office during registration week to get questions answered and how to make this a smooth process.    New Student Orientation: https://www.usu.edu/orientation/locations/logan    Orientation Office Contact Information: 435-797-0283; orientation@usu.edu; Instagram @usuateam   USU First Semester Registration Guide: https://www.usu.edu/orientation/guides/   Registration Vocabulary: https://www.usu.edu/orientation/lingo    

In today's bonus episode we sit down with Craig Whyte, Executive Director of Student Financial Support here at USU to talk about the extreme importance for incoming students to complete a FAFSA.   New Student Orientation: https://www.usu.edu/orientation/locations/logan   Orientation Office Contact Information: 435-797-0283; orientation@usu.edu; Instagram @usuateam   Complete the FAFSA: https://studentaid.gov/h/apply-for-aid/fafsa      Guest  Craig Whyte – Executive Director, Student Financial Support, Utah State University 

In today's episode I sit down Addie Kelly, Student Coordinator for Orientation, to talk about Module 2 of the online orientation. We dive into what that registration process is like for the first time, what is covered in module 2 (all about registration), and what support our office offers for incoming students through the registration process.    New Student Orientation: https://www.usu.edu/orientation/locations/logan    Orientation Office Contact Information: 435-797-0283; orientation@usu.edu; Instagram @usuateam   USU First Semester Registration Guide: https://www.usu.edu/orientation/guides/   Registration Vocabulary: https://www.usu.edu/orientation/lingo     Guest  Addie Kelly - Student Coordinator; Student Orientation and Transition Services   

In today's episode we sit down with Sierra Law, Transition and Parent Program Coordinator here at USU to talk about the deferment process for those students who are not going to be attending summer or fall 2023, but have been admitted for those terms. We go through information about how long students can defer, what it means to do so, and how to contact Isaiah for those who have questions during the process.  USU What's Next Steps: https://www.usu.edu/admissions/whatsnext/   New Student Orientation: https://www.usu.edu/orientation/locations/logan   Orientation Office Contact Information: 435-797-0283; orientation@usu.edu; Instagram @usuateam   Deferment Website: https://www.usu.edu/admissions/deferment/   Apply Now Portal: https://www.usu.edu/apply/   Admissions Office Contact Information: 435-797-3708; admit@usu.edu    Sierra Law, Transition and Parent Program Coordinator Contact Information: https://www.usu.edu/parents/contact      Guest  Sierra Law - Transition and Parent Program Coordinator, Utah State University 

In today's episode I sit down on with Halle to talk all about what the A-Team is and how admitted students can interact with this group of undergraduate student orientation leaders. We talk about engaging on social media, opportunities to reach out for help, and engaging with the A-Team at in-person Aggie Orientation.    New Student Orientation: https://www.usu.edu/orientation/locations/logan    Orientation Office Contact Information: 435-797-0283; orientation@usu.edu; Instagram @usuateam  Meet the 2023 A-Team: https://www.usu.edu/orientation/ateam/    Guests  Halle Hart – Recreation Administration; Sophomore; Liberty, UT 

Today's episode is the first podcast episode for students starting summer or fall 2023 semesters. We talk a little bit about what orientation at Utah State looks like, module 1 of the online orientation, and how students can connect with our office.    What's Next Website: https://www.usu.edu/admissions/whatsnext/   New Student Orientation: https://www.usu.edu/orientation/locations/logan Orientation Office Contact Information: 435-797-0283; orientation@usu.edu; Instagram @usuateam  

As we wrap up the first quarter of the school year, we take a look back at the start of every Stanford student's college experience: New Student Orientation. With stories from a transfer student, the voice behind Stanfordbiosclassof2026, and a freshman we explore the complexity of this turbulent time. Welcome to part one of New Student Disorientation. For more podcasts by The Stanford Daily, visit stanforddaily.com/category/podcasts. Producer: Helena Getahun-Hawkins Managing Editor: Chloe Mendoza

In today's episode we talk about wrapping up finals week, the 8 dimensions of wellness, the importance of taking care of ourselves, and finishing up the semester strong. New Student Orientation: https://www.usu.edu/orientation/locations/logan   Orientation Office Contact Information: 435-797-0283; orientation@usu.edu; Instagram @usuateam  Campus Recreation - Wellness Programs: https://www.usu.edu/campusrec/services/wellness  Mental Health Resources: https://www.usu.edu/aggiewellness/mental-health  Student Health and Wellness Center: https://www.usu.edu/aggiewellness/shwc/index   

In today's episode I sit down on Zoom with Alexis, Garland, and Karla to talk about their first finals week, tips they have for students managing stress, and what they wish they would have known this time during their first semester.     New Student Orientation: https://www.usu.edu/orientation/locations/logan    Orientation Office Contact Information: 435-797-0283; orientation@usu.edu; Instagram @usuateam  Counseling and Psychological Services: https://www.usu.edu/aggiewellness/mental-health   Student Health & Wellness Center: https://www.usu.edu/aggiewellness/shwc/   Aggie Safe App: https://www.usu.edu/dps/safeapp     Guests  Alexis Bennett – Dietetics; Senior; Big Piney, WY  Garland Ledbetter – Landscape Architecture; Junior; Salt Lake City, UT  Karla Sandoval-Rodriguez – Biological Science Composite Teaching; Senior; Pleasant Grove, UT

In today's episode I sit down on Zoom with Sierra Law, Orientation Program Coordinator, to talk about the Notification of Leave process and what students need to know if they are not planning on attending Spring 2023 semester.    New Student Orientation: https://www.usu.edu/orientation/locations/logan    Orientation Office Contact Information: 435-797-0283; orientation@usu.edu; Instagram @usuateam  Submit a Notification of Leave - https://www.usu.edu/retention/nol/   Missionary Leave - https://www.usu.edu/missionary/index    Set Up a Delegate at MyID - https://myid.usu.edu/     Guests  Sierra Law – Program Coordinator; Student Orientation and Transition Services; Utah State University

In today's episode I revisit when I sat down on Zoom with CJ, Regan, Jarod, and Halle as they share some of their favorite tips to share with students. We are ¾ of the way through the semester and it can be tricky if you don't quite feel like you've got it figured out. These A-Team members have great tips/advice for students who are still trying to find their groove here at USU.  New Student Orientation: https://www.usu.edu/orientation/locations/logan    Orientation Office Contact Information: 435-797-0283; orientation@usu.edu; Instagram @usuateam    Guests  CJ Peragallo – Human Experience Design and Interaction; Junior; Draper, UT  Regan Luke – Environmental Studies; Senior; Middleton, ID  Jarod Bressler – Physics; Sophomore; Magna, UT  Halle Hart – Recreation Administration; Sophomore; Liberty, UT 

In today's episode, I talk about spring 2023 registration. We chat tips and tricks with college scheduler, building a plan ahead of time, and what to do if you are not planning to attend the spring semester.   New Student Orientation: usu.edu/orientation/locations/logan  Orientation Office Contact Information: 435-797-0283; orientation@usu.edu; Instagram @usuateam Notification of Leave: usu.edu/retention/nol/ 

In today's episode I talk about spring 2023 registration. We chat tips and tricks with college scheduler, building a plan ahead of time, and what do to if you are not planning to attend spring semester.   New Student Orientation:https://www.usu.edu/orientation/locations/logan  Orientation Office Contact Information: 435-797-0283; orientation@usu.edu; Instagram @usuateam Notification of Leave: https://www.usu.edu/retention/nol/ 

In today's episode we talk about completing a FAFSA for the 2023-2024 academic year as well as other ways to pay for college moving forward. USU's Scholarship portal is now open for students to access and allows students to apply for college, departmental, and major scholarships as well as vetted third-party scholarships. We also remind students about the resources found in the Student Financial Support department here at USU.    New Student Orientation: https://www.usu.edu/orientation/locations/logan     Orientation Office Contact Information: 435-797-0283; orientation@usu.edu; Instagram @usuateam  Why You Should Complete a FAFSA in Under 5 Minutes Previous Podcast Episode: https://www.podbean.com/ew/pb-wpuw9-11d53da  Student Financial Support Previous Podcast Episode: https://www.podbean.com/ew/pb-p7h5a-1284edf 

Have you ever invested in technology, only to find yourself frustrated when trying to learn how to use it? Tom Studdert and his team at ZoomInfo have created a new customer experience that ensures their success. Tom shares lots of nuggets you can apply to the onboarding of new clients and employees.Tom Studdert is the Vice President of Customer Onboarding & Education at ZoomInfo where he oversees the comprehensive onboarding program with a focus on early adoption of the ZoomInfo suite of products. Before joining ZoomInfo, Tom spent 20 years in Higher Education serving as an Assistant Dean of Student Development at Texas Christian University and a Director of New Student Orientation at the University of Southern California.You'll discover: The strengths Tom brought from his experiences in higher education to his role at ZoomInfoHow Tom and his team build scaffolding into all customer education programsHow Customer Education differs from Customer Training and Customer ServiceWhat Tom and his team do to provide extraordinary experiences when onboarding new customersThe values that the CEO models and advocates for everyone in the companyCheck out all the episodesLeave a review on Apple PodcastsConnect with Meredith on LinkedInFollow Meredith on TwitterDownload the free ebook Listen Like a Pro...

In today's episode, we chat over Zoom with Jana Haws from the Exploratory Advising office, Kevin Schwemmin from the Career Design Center, as well as A-Team member Mason Ralphs about what it means to be “exploratory” here at USU. We get to dive into what picking a major might look like for students and why it is okay if you change your mind when it comes to what it is you would like to study.   New Student Orientation: https://www.usu.edu/orientation/locations/logan    Orientation Office Contact Information: 435-797-0283; orientation@usu.edu; Instagram @usuateam   Exploratory Advising: https://advising.usu.edu/exploratory/index   Exploratory Advising Office Contact Information: 435-797-3373; exploratoryadvising@usu.edu; TSC 302   Major Quest Canvas:  https://usu.instructure.com/enroll/EK84LL  Focus Area Website:  https://advising.usu.edu/exploratory/focusareas/  Career Design Center: https://www.usu.edu/career-design-center/   Aggie Network: https://aggienetwork.usu.edu/     Guests  Jana Haws – Exploratory Academic Advisor at Utah State University   Kevin Schwemmin – Executive Director of the Career Design Center at Utah State University  Mason Ralphs –  Exploratory; Sophomore; Pocatello, Idaho 

Join Dean McQueen-Ruark as she talks New Student Orientation, Student Involvement, and Dolly Parton with the Director of Student Involvement and Orientation, Michael McComas.

Lamar University is gearing up to welcome the class of 2026 to campus for New Student Orientation. This week on the LU Moment, Brandie VanZanden, director of New Student and Leadership Programs, and Assistant director of NSLP Morgan Pulliam talk about their excitement in hosting NSO and how future Cardinals can prepare.

The summer months present a significant opportunity to connect incoming Baylor students to the Baylor Family. In this Baylor Connections, Dr. Sharra Hynes, Associate Vice President and Dean of Students in the Division of Student Life, shares how. From Line Camp to New Student Orientation, discover how distinct programs give incoming students a head start on friendships, campus traditions and more.

This week Patrick and Jalin are joined by Tammy from the Office of New Student Orientation! Hear all about Tammy's time with orientation, plus we get to know more about Tammy with the PodCats Questionnaire. We're also joined this week by Alexander and Christine, two of our Orientation Counselors, for our summer Great Debate and our “Paws and Reflect” segment. Thank you for taking the time to join us and

This week Patrick and Jalin are joined by Tammy from the Office of New Student Orientation! Hear all about Tammy's time with orientation, plus we get to know more about Tammy with the PodCats Questionnaire. We're also joined this week by Alexander and Christine, two of our Orientation Counselors, for our summer Great Debate and our “Paws and Reflect” segment. Thank you for taking the time to join us and

In today's episode we chat over Zoom with A-Team members, Erin and Xander about Module 3 of the online orientation, in-person Aggie Orientation, and what to expect this summer as they prepare to attend Utah State.   New Student Orientation: https://www.usu.edu/orientation/locations/logan   Sign-up for an in-person Aggie Orientation Session (or change your date): https://secure1.vzorientation.com/usu/   Orientation Office Contact Information: 435-797-0283; orientation@usu.edu; Instagram @usuateam     Guests  Erin Nielsen – Social Work; Senior; Hyde Park, UT  Xander Heath – Marketing with Tech Sales Minor, Senior; West Valley City, UT

We welcome YOU back to America's leading higher education podcast, The EdUp Experience! It's YOUR time to #EdUp In this episode, Dr. Daniel Villanueva, Jr., Vice President of Enrollment Management at the University of Houston-Downtown, YOUR guest cohost is Dr. Michelle Cantu-Wilson, YOUR host is Dr. Joe Sallustio, & YOUR sponsor is Commencement: The Beginning of a New Era In Higher Education, coming fall 2022. What are the 5 keys to grow enrollment according to Daniel? Listen in to find out! Dr. Villanueva serves as the Vice-President of Enrollment Management & oversees the following areas: Admissions, Financial Aid, Registrar's Office, Transfer Relations, Student Transitions, New Student Orientation, & Enrollment Marketing & Communications. He participates in the planning, development & implementation of marketing programs for recruitment & enrollment of new undergraduate & graduate students, as well as leading the retention & enrollment of all students. Dr. Villanueva also leads all institutional-wide enrollment, retention, & graduation services. He is responsible for community college relationships & outreach initiatives. In addition, he oversees the coordination & linkage between university transitions programs while ensuring coordination of services for prospective & current students. Thank YOU so much for tuning in. Join us on the next episode for YOUR time to EdUp! Connect with YOUR EdUp Team - Elvin Freytes & Dr. Joe Sallustio ● Join YOUR EdUp community at The EdUp Experience! We make education YOUR business! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/edup/message

In today's episode I sit down with Philosophy professor and Associate Vice Provost, Harrison Kleiner, to talk about two different academic opportunities for incoming students to take. We discuss the USU 1010 Connections course and the Habits of Mind courses that are designed to help students be successful in their academic pursuits.      New Student Orientation: https://www.usu.edu/orientation/locations/logan     Orientation Office Contact Information: 435-797-0283; orientation@usu.edu; Instagram @usuateam   USU 1010 Connections: https://www.usu.edu/connections/logan/index   Register for USU 1010 Connections: https://www.usu.edu/connections/logan/register   USU Habits of Mind Courses: https://www.usu.edu/academic-support/courses     Guest  Dr. Harrison Kleiner – Philosophy Professor and Associate Vice Provost, Utah State University 

Welcome to Draft Class! in the debut episode, host Kris Pursiainen tells you a little bit about what this new show will entail before welcome on Prez from The Strickland to discuss the 2021-22 Knicks youngsters, the team's biggest needs going into draft night, a few players on their radar and much more! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

After being admitted to UT Austin, one of the next steps in a prospective student's journey is participating in New Student Orientation, where they will get academic resources campus resources and register for classes. It's all at orientation! In this episode, learn about New Student Orientation from Kyle St. Nicholas, Associate Director of New Student Services, and Jordan Mitchell, Orientation Ambassador.

In today's episode, Senior Program Coordinator Kylee Hopkin talks about registration and what first-semester students need to know about their academic advisor and preparation for Spring 2022 course registration.      New Student Orientation: https://www.usu.edu/orientation/locations/logan    Orientation Office Contact Information: 435-797-0283; orientation@usu.edu; Instagram @usuateam   Find Your Advisor: www.advising.usu.edu  

In today's episode, Kylee Hopkin sits down on Zoom with Brook Peacock from the Financial Aid office to talk all about their services and the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) that opens Oct. 1 for the 2022-2023 academic school year. We go over what it is, how to fill it out and the benefits of submitting the FAFSA application.  New Student Orientation: https://www.usu.edu/orientation/locations/logan    Orientation Office Contact Information: 435-797-0283; orientation@usu.edu; Instagram @usuateam   Financial Aid Office Contact Information: 435-797-0173; financialaid@usu.edu; Taggart Student Center 106  Financial Aid Office: https://www.usu.edu/financialaid/   Financial Aid Counselor Appointments: https://www.usu.edu/financialaid/contact   FAFSA: https://studentaid.gov/h/apply-for-aid/fafsa     Guests  Brook Peacock – USU Financial Aid Office; Associate Director of Systems and Data 

In today's episode USU Senior Orientation Program Coordinator, Kylee Hopkin, sits down with Isaiah Jones from the Student Orientation office to talk all about the upcoming Parent & Family Weekend. We go over what it is, what events are going on, and why students, their parents, and families should attend.    New Student Orientation: https://www.usu.edu/orientation/locations/logan    Orientation Office Contact Information: 435-797-0283; orientation@usu.edu; Instagram @usuateam   Parents: https://www.usu.edu/parents/   Parent & Family Weekend: https://www.usu.edu/parents/weekend   Parent & Family Network: https://usu.campusesp.com/users/sign_in  USU Homecoming 2021 Schedule: https://www.usu.edu/homecoming/schedule/index   Isaiah Jones – Parent and Transition Coordinator: isaiah.jones@usu.edu; Set up a meeting with him at https://isaiah-jones.youcanbook.me/    Hosts  Isaiah Jones | USU Student Orientation Program Coordinator - Transition & Parent Programs  Kylee Hopkin | USU Senior Orientation Program Coordinator | Student Orientation & Transitions Services

Episode 3! Join us today in our lively conversation with special guest, Holly Kasperbauer as she divulges all of the Bush School's secrets! Can we get a vote on Holly bringing all of her puppers over to the PCC? Doggie daycare anyone? SARAH, TJ, & HOLLY CHAT ABOUT Who is Holly & what does she do at Texas A&M & The Bush School New Student Orientation Week Planning Planning an in person New Student Orientation last year with many COVID protocols in place Student feedback RESOURCES AND LINKS MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE: Meet Holly: https://bush.tamu.edu/pslp/contact/#hkasperbauer The Bush School of Government & Public Service: https://bush.tamu.edu/ Starting with Service: New Bush School Students Paint Eight Bryan Habitat for Humanity Homes https://bush.tamu.edu/news/starting-with-service-new-bush-school-students-paint-eight-bryan-habitat-for-humanity-homes/ Public Service Leadership Program https://bush.tamu.edu/pslp/ CONNECT WITH US Website Facebook Twitter Instagram LinkedIn Spotify Apple Podcast Youtube

Fr. Dave and Bob talk about New Student Orientation at Franciscan, catch up on emails, share what they love about several of this week's saints, and reflect on the University's scriptural theme for the year.

On this episode of Flameside, Lauren is joined by Admission Marketing Intern, McKenna Hulette '22, to chat with Amanda Pearce, Director of Greek Life and New Student Orientation. This special episode is for entering first year students in the Centre College Class of 2025 to learn more about what to expect during New Student Orientation coming up later this month. You'll also hear advice for your first year at Centre and some helpful information regarding your first semester. If you'd like to learn more about Centre College check out our website at www.centre.edu. Follow us @admissioncentre on Instagram, Facebook, and Tik Tok! See you next time!

In today's episode, I sat down on Zoom with Dr. Harrison Kleiner, Dr. Rose Judd-Murray and A-Team members Erin and Reagan, to talk about the USU 1010 Connections course, the power of a faculty mentor, and why students should intentionally engage in the course.  New Student Orientation: https://www.usu.edu/orientation/locations/logan    Orientation Office Contact Information: 435-797-0283; orientation@usu.edu; Instagram @usuateam  About USU 1010 Connections: https://www.usu.edu/connections/logan/index   How to Register for USU 1010 Connections: https://www.usu.edu/connections/logan/register    Guests   Dr. Harrison Kleiner – Associate Vice Provost and Philosophy professor at USU  Dr. Rose Judd-Murray – Assistant Professor in the College of Agriculture and Applied Sciences at USU  Erin Nielsen – Social Work; Senior; Hyde Park, UT  Reagan Jensen – Psychology; Junior; South Weber, UT 

Enrollment leaders are charged, first and foremost, with bringing in the new incoming student class. Many also add retention services to their responsibility. But few are given the task of managing the student journey from prospect to alumni like our two guests, Mr. Joe Montgomery and Dr. Juan Alexander. In this two-part series we will discuss the challenges and the advantages of enrollment carrying the responsibility for the student experience from the moment a student inquires into the college, through the student years, and into the ongoing relationship an alum has with their alma mater. In part one of this series, Jay talks with Joe and Juan about the inception years with a prospective student, and what can be learned about building a strong and intentional relationship with these young incoming students.About Dr. Juan AlexanderDr. Juan Alexander is the currently serves as the Associate Vice-President of Enrollment Management at Norfolk State University. In this role he oversees all of the university's enrollment management offices to include: Undergraduate Admissions and Recruitment, Transfer Admission and Services, Financial Aid, Registrar, New Student Orientation and Graduate Recruitment. Prior to coming to NSU, Dr. Alexander has had the pleasure of overseeing admissions and recruitment at Savannah State University, Kentucky State University, Wilberforce University and Alabama A&M University. Also, at Old Dominion University he served as a Site Director for the university's distance education program. His more than 15 years of higher education experience includes enrollment management, distance education, academic advising, and alumni affairs. He has also worked in K12. As an enrollment management leader, he has spent his career applying his expertise and innovation to streamline admissions processing, increasing enrollment, creating marketing strategies, and implementing technology to support and enhance admissions and recruitment initiatives.He earned his doctorate from Creighton University in Educational Leadership and holds two degrees from Norfolk State University: a Bachelor's in Mass Communications, with a concentration in Public Relations, and a Masters of Arts in Teaching.About Mr. Joseph MontgomeryFor over 20-years, Mr. Joseph Montgomery has been a noteworthy leader in the college admissions/enrollment space. He has experience with admission work at HBCUs and Private Selective Colleges throughout the United States' southeastern region. Before joining Tuskegee University, he spent 6-years at the College Board as Director, Higher Education Services advising chief enrollment officers at universities throughout the south on matters relating to admissions, financial aid, registration, and student success indicators. Beyond servicing as the Vice President of Enrollment Management and Student Success at Tuskegee University, he serves on the Education Finance Institute Advisory Board that focuses on strengthen mission-focused colleges and universities that primarily serve low-income, first-generation, and minority students. Lastly, he was selected to serve on the National Association College Admissions Counseling – Commission on Redesigning the College Admission and Financial Aid Through a Racial Equity Lens. The panel will examine the college entrance pipeline, postsecondary financial aid requirements, and the role of racial equity in postsecondary enrollment. He holds Bachelor's Degree from Voorhees College (HBCU) and a Master's Degree from North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University (HBCU) and currently resides in Blacksburg, VA and Tuskegee, AL.   

Enrollment leaders are charged, first and foremost, with bringing in the new incoming student class. Many also add retention services to their responsibility. But few are given the task of managing the student journey from prospect to alumni like our two guests, Mr. Joe Montgomery and Dr. Juan Alexander. In this two-part series we will discuss the challenges and the advantages of enrollment carrying the responsibility for the student experience from the moment a student inquires into the college, through the student years, and into the ongoing relationship an alum has with their alma mater. About Dr. Juan AlexanderDr. Juan Alexander is the currently serves as the Associate Vice-President of Enrollment Management at Norfolk State University. In this role he oversees all of the university's enrollment management offices to include: Undergraduate Admissions and Recruitment, Transfer Admission and Services, Financial Aid, Registrar, New Student Orientation and Graduate Recruitment. Prior to coming to NSU, Dr. Alexander has had the pleasure of overseeing admissions and recruitment at Savannah State University, Kentucky State University, Wilberforce University and Alabama A&M University. Also, at Old Dominion University he served as a Site Director for the university's distance education program. His more than 15 years of higher education experience includes enrollment management, distance education, academic advising, and alumni affairs. He has also worked in K12. As an enrollment management leader, he has spent his career applying his expertise and innovation to streamline admissions processing, increasing enrollment, creating marketing strategies, and implementing technology to support and enhance admissions and recruitment initiatives.He earned his doctorate from Creighton University in Educational Leadership and holds two degrees from Norfolk State University: a Bachelor's in Mass Communications, with a concentration in Public Relations, and a Masters of Arts in Teaching.About Mr. Joseph MontgomeryFor over 20-years, Mr. Joseph Montgomery has been a noteworthy leader in the college admissions/enrollment space. He has experience with admission work at HBCUs and Private Selective Colleges throughout the United States' southeastern region. Before joining Tuskegee University, he spent 6-years at the College Board as Director, Higher Education Services advising chief enrollment officers at universities throughout the south on matters relating to admissions, financial aid, registration, and student success indicators. Beyond servicing as the Vice President of Enrollment Management and Student Success at Tuskegee University, he serves on the Education Finance Institute Advisory Board that focuses on strengthen mission-focused colleges and universities that primarily serve low-income, first-generation, and minority students. Lastly, he was selected to serve on the National Association College Admissions Counseling – Commission on Redesigning the College Admission and Financial Aid Through a Racial Equity Lens. The panel will examine the college entrance pipeline, postsecondary financial aid requirements, and the role of racial equity in postsecondary enrollment. He holds Bachelor's Degree from Voorhees College (HBCU) and a Master's Degree from North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University (HBCU) and currently resides in Blacksburg, VA and Tuskegee, AL.   

On today's ParentPod we are happy to have Rebecca Ratti, Associate Director of Student Life and Campus Engagement and Andrea Specht, Graduate Assistant for Student Life on the pod to discuss the ins and outs of New Student Orientation. Topics include student registration, Orientation Leaders, Topic areas, and how we continue to onboard students throughout their entire first year! Music by Lobo Loco "woke up this morning"

A new school year brings a sense of excitement, promise and anticipation. As a result, this special time also brings added anxiety for students, parents, and teachers. Fortunately, schools use the “new student orientation” as a tool to help clear up confusion and avoid any unnecessary panic. In today's post we are recommending some helpful “Tips for Preparing for a New Student Orientation.” Like what you hear? Take a moment to support the show! SUPPORT HERE Show Notes

In today's episode we chat over Zoom with A-Team member, Karla, and Dr. Matthew Sanders about Dr. Sanders' book Becoming a Learner and the impact it continues to have on students at Utah State. All incoming students will receive a copy of Becoming a Learner as a part of their orientation materials. New Student Orientation: https://www.usu.edu/orientation/locations/logan Orientation Office Contact Information: 435-797-0283; orientation@usu.edu; Instagram @usuateam Becoming a Learner Video: https://youtu.be/7x2IUXFGlHg   Guests Karla Sandoval Rodriguez– Biological Science Composite Teaching major, Chemistry and Spanish minors; Junior; Pleasant Grove, UT Dr. Matthew Sanders – Associate Dean of the College of Humanities and Social Sciences, Professor in the Communication Studies department, and author of the book Becoming a Learner.

In today's episode we chat over Zoom with Jacob Van den Akker and Lisa Simmons from the Student Orientation office, as well as A-Team member Reagan Jensen about fall registration and what students should do if they have not yet registered for classes.    New Student Orientation: https://www.usu.edu/orientation/locations/logan   Orientation Office Contact Information: 435-797-0283; orientation@usu.edu; Instagram @usuateam  Defer Your Admission: https://www.usu.edu/sots/loa/ (*note the difference between deferment and leave)  New USU Student Email: https://it.usu.edu/studentemail   USU 1010 Connections: https://www.usu.edu/connections/logan/index     Guests  Lisa Simmons – Director of Student Orientation and Transition Services at Utah State University  Jacob Van den Akker – Assistant Director of Student Orientation and Transition Services at Utah State University  Reagan Jensen – Psychology major, Human and Family Development minor; Junior; South Weber, UT 

In today's episode we chat over Zoom with Jacob Van den Akker and Lisa Simmons from the Student Orientation office, as well as A-Team member Reagan Jensen about fall registration and what students should do if they have not yet registered for classes.    New Student Orientation: https://www.usu.edu/orientation/locations/logan   Orientation Office Contact Information: 435-797-0283; orientation@usu.edu; Instagram @usuateam  Defer Your Admission: https://www.usu.edu/sots/loa/ (*note the difference between deferment and leave)  New USU Student Email: https://it.usu.edu/studentemail   USU 1010 Connections: https://www.usu.edu/connections/logan/index     Guests  Lisa Simmons – Director of Student Orientation and Transition Services at Utah State University  Jacob Van den Akker – Assistant Director of Student Orientation and Transition Services at Utah State University  Reagan Jensen – Psychology major, Human and Family Development minor; Junior; South Weber, UT 

In today's episode we chat over Zoom with A-Team members, Ryker, Clara, and Abe about Module 3 of the online orientation and other supplemental ways for incoming students to engage with the A-Team this summer as they prepare to attend Utah State.   New Student Orientation: https://www.usu.edu/orientation/locations/logan   Sign-up for an in-person Aggie Info Session (or change your date): https://secure1.vzorientation.com/usu/   Sign-up for a virtual Aggie Chat with the A-Team: https://usu.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_55eibdHfMjy0QZM   Orientation Office Contact Information: 435-797-0283; orientation@usu.edu; Instagram @usuateam     Guests  Ryker Howard – Dual major in Marketing & Business Management with HR emphasis; Junior; Hooper, UT  Clara Alder – Dual major in Psychology & Sociology; Junior; Millcreek, UT  Abe Rodriguez – Dual major in Journalism & Marketing; Junior; Hyrum, UT 

Future Cardinals are starting to fly in for New Student Orientation and Brandie VanZanden, Director of New Student and Leadership Programs, says our future Cards have a lot to look forward to.

In this episode, Dr. Jones and Etinosa Ogbevoen (new co-host) reflect on the 2020-2021 academic year, discuss summer plans (including New Student Orientation), and how to prepare for the fall semester.

This week, we sit down with Bethany and Timothy at New Student Orientation! Join us to hear about orientation, the exciting summer ahead, and a few must-see spots!To learn more about New Student Orientation, click this link!

What happens after you make your final enrollment decision? Join the Admit It! Team as we sit down and talk with Dr. Mallory Wishard to discuss how New Student Orientation offers students their first official glimpse of life around the Mount! The Admit It! Team goes behind the scenes to see what it takes to plan a summer orientation, and how Dr. Wishard and a team of current student leaders provide a welcoming experience to families before their official move-in day. Tune in to learn more about what our Orientation team has in store for you! Covering Summer Orientation, you'll have to admit that this episode is a must-listen!Learn more about New Student Orientation Ready to join the Mount Community? Pay your enrollment deposit here!Learn more about the Mount by requesting more information!Have questions for the Admit It! team? Email us at admitit@msmary.edu

Benjamin Williams (he/his) serves as the Assistant Director of New Student Orientation, where he leads Orientation, Parent & Family Programs, and Off Campus Housing across all Georgia State University Campuses. He received his bachelor’s degree from Georgia State Universality, his master’s degree in higher education and student affairs from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, and is pursuing his Ph.D. in Education Policy Studies at Georgia State University. He has worked in higher education for over 6 years and has enjoyed working in various functional areas to contribute to student success! When not working, he enjoys volunteering in his community and spending time at Georgia State Athletic events.  Connect with Benjamin on LinkedIn.

In today's episode, we chat over Zoom with USU Senior Program Coordinator | New Student Orientation, Kylee Hopkin, and A-Team members Jason Haywood and Reagan Jensen about what to expect from USU New Student Orientation w/ Kylee Hopkin and the A-Team. usu.edu/orientation/locations/logan usu.edu/parents/orientation usu.edu/orientation/ateam/

Kass Fruin is a recent grad of Central Connecticut State University. Where she served was a student leader in the facets of New Student Orientation, Student Government, and a number of other areas of involvement. Having experienced grief and loss as a college student, Kass discusses giving back to her community and the gains she received by investing in others.

David Fox is a Lecturer at the University of Pennsylvania in Theatre Arts, and Director of the Penn Reading Project and New Student Orientation. His areas of expertise and teaching include modern American theatre, musical theatre and opera; arts criticism; and directing.In addition to his work at Penn, David is an active arts journalist. His writing has appeared in the New York Times, Opera Quarterly, The Kurt Weill Quarterly, and others. For 15 years, he was theater critic for Philadelphia City Paper, followed by five years at Philadelphia Magazine. He now writes regularly for Parterre Box, and—along with frequent writing partner, Cameron Kelsall—maintains the arts blog, Reclining Standards. Twenty-six of his essays appear in the current edition of the International Dictionary of Opera (St. James Press).David also lectures nationally for arts groups including the Philadelphia Orchestra, Opera Philadelphia, the Los Angeles Opera, and others. He is a frequent guest on NPR’s Radio Times. In addition, he has designed music and sound for a number of regional theatres throughout the country, including the Williamstown Theatre Festival, the Long Wharf Theatre in New Haven, Connecticut, and Room for Theatre in Los Angeles.David holds degrees from UCLA School of Theatre, Film and Television, and has taught and developed educational programs in the arts and humanities at Penn, UCLA, and The University of Southern California. A native Los Angelino, he was part of the staff that opened the first ever Tower Classical Records store (on Sunset Boulevard). The vast LP (and later, CD) collection he built while working there still takes up half of his living room, and much of his time.Cameron Kelsall is a freelance journalist and critic based in Collingswood, New Jersey. Cameron specializes in writing about theater, classical music, opera, and the arts at large. His byline appears in the Philadelphia Inquirer, Philadelphia Gay News, American Theatre magazine, Broad Street Review, Opera News, Parterre Box, Bachtrack, Exeunt NYC, and many other publications. He maintains the arts and culture blog Reclining Standards with his colleague David Fox. Cameron serves on the Executive Committee of the American Theatre Critics Association, and is a member of the Outer Critics Circle and the Music Critics Association of North America. Born and raised in Beach Haven, New Jersey, Cameron received a BA from Marymount Manhattan College and an MA from Ohio University. He has taught extensively at the college level and has lectured frequently on topics related to the arts.

With move-in right around the corner, New Student Orientation wants to make sure we prepare you all for that important do. So we sat down with University Housing representative, Jessica Keever to talk through what move-in day will look like, discuss some things to do before you arrive to move-in, and some of the other new housing policies. We also chat with our Thriving 13, Jaquarius Raglin, and reflect on his move-in experience and debate what are the most important things to bring to your residence hall. So make sure you check out this episode to be ready for move-in!

Host Andrea McCarren explores how parents can help college students succeed beyond just shelling out for tuition.  Guests include Kristin Austin, Ed.D., Senior Director of New Student Programs at West Chester University of Pennsylvania and Ben Williams, Assistant Director of New Student Orientation at Georgia State University. Also includes College Ready: Money Moments segment with Jamie Gayton, Executive Vice President of the Pentagon Federal Credit Union and the author of Guide to Personal Financial Planning for the Armed Forces. College Ready 2020 is produced in collaboration with the Association of Higher Education Parent/Family Program Professionals and with the support of the Pentagon Federal Credit Union  Executive Producer by Dan Solomon of the Wise Action Company Produced, Edited & Mixed by Brad Stratton for Audiation College Ready 2020 is a production of Wise Action.

We're finishing off our New Student Orientation series with two College of Media grads-- Kyle Monroe, an engineer at Game Creek Video and Isaac Ferebee, a digital content associate for ESPN's Fantasy Focus Live and the college football show.

We're breaking down the University of Georgia's virtual new student orientation. For most UGA students, attending orientation is their first step on campus as a college student. A night of summer camp away from home. It's their first taste of dining hall food, their first chance to take part in UGA's traditions. It's where orientees get to jump in the iconic North Campus fountain, where they learn how to “Call the Dawgs” and where they make some of their first lasting memories in Athens. But due to COVID-19, this program had to move entirely online. We talked to an orientation leader and an incoming freshman about their online orientation experience.

We're breaking down the University of Georgia's virtual new student orientation. For most UGA students, attending orientation is their first step on campus as a college student. A night of summer camp away from home. It's their first taste of dining hall food, their first chance to take part in UGA's traditions. It's where orientees get to jump in the iconic North Campus fountain, where they learn how to “Call the Dawgs” and where they make some of their first lasting memories in Athens. But due to COVID-19, this program had to move entirely online. We talked to an orientation leader and an incoming freshman about their online orientation experience.

Tammy is probably the most involved person I know at CSUN. She is one of the Senators for College of Health & Human Development, intern at Asian American Studies Pathways Project, Historian Chair for Vietnamese Student Association & mentor for New Student Orientation- and not to mention she is taking 15 units this semester (much wow. such amaze). You're all probably wondering how Tammy is able to be part of these organizations while doing well in her classes. In this episode she breaks down her love for school, reasons for getting involved on campus & suggestions on studying, time management and more! *Real proud of Tammy because I was her peer mentor in Allan's AAS 100 a few semesters ago.Von Aizen Subscribe:iTunes: itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-voncast-show/id1281106545?mt=2Website: https://www.vonaizen.com/Soundcloud: : https://soundcloud.com/vonaizenSpotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/10pEGJ2z3eMydtDz1iq9lf?si=d4MmbsNoRgqIlNXd2F9_-AYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0dhy8DaPbSqYFaVqLJuUKAFiveSe7en: Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/fivese7encollectiveWebsite: https://fivese7encollective.com/

The people make the place and on this episode we chat with Feisty 15 Suz Kebanli and discuss the people at UGA that work to make our campus feel like home for students. We are also joined by Tori Tanner, Assistant Director of New Student Orientation to chat about her journey into her career and what advice she has for incoming students to transition to UGA.

Originally from Buffalo, NY, Lindsay earned her baccalaureate degree from the University at Buffalo in 2003, double majoring in Psychology and Communication. As an undergrad, she worked on campus in the Office of New Student Programs and served as an RA in the University Residence Halls. Lindsay moved to NYC in 2004 to pursue a master’s degree in Higher Education Administration at NYU, during which time she had the opportunity to serve as an RA in the 26th Street Residence Hall (2005/2006) and work in the Office of Admissions at the NYU College of Dentistry (2004-2006). These experiences served as a catalyst for Lindsay to pursue a professional career in recruitment, admissions, and student services. Upon graduating with a Master’s in Higher Education Administration in 2006, Lindsay accepted a position as Scholarship and Recruitment Officer, and was eventually promoted to Assistant Director for Admissions and Student Affairs, at the NYU College of Nursing. As Assistant Director, Lindsay advised applicants on admission requirements, contributed to the development of strategic marketing plans, predicted enrollment trends, advised incoming students, and planned and implemented New Student Orientation. In 2012, after nearly eight years in NYC, Lindsay accepted a position as Associate Director of Admissions at the University at Buffalo School of Law. In January 2017, she was promoted to Vice Dean for Admissions. She is responsible for the management and oversight of the Office of Admissions, all of its programs, operations and staff. Lindsay lives on Buffalo’s West Side with her husband, Brent. She enjoys running (she ran the NYC Marathon in 2011), traveling, reading, gardening, and true crime. Lindsay was a Division I cheerleader during her undergraduate years and a member of the Liberty Torch Patrol (New York Liberty-WNBA) from 2007 – 2011.

Hosted by Mark Largent, Associate Provost for Undergraduate Education & Jeff Grabill, Associate Provost for Teaching, Learning and Technology. Featuring special guest Portia Watkins, Director of New Student Orientation.

Hosted by Mark Largent, Associate Provost for Undergraduate Education & Jeff Grabill, Associate Provost for Teaching, Learning and Technology. Featuring special guest Portia Watkins, Director of New Student Orientation.

UNC graduate student workers have created a list of demands they would like University leaders to meet in response to COVID-19 conditions. Entitled “Demands for the Immediate Relief of Graduate Workers at UNC-CH,” the statement outlines a variety of graduate student worker concerns, including a 75 percent cost of living adjustment and additional time and funding to complete degrees. Host Evely Forte talks to DTH University staff writer Rachel Crumpler to break down these demands and to better understand how they will impact the UNC campus community. Episode produced by Allie Kelly. For more information on today's episode, visit https://www.dailytarheel.com/article/2020/04/grad-student-demands-0416. Other DTH stories mentioned in this episode: "New Student Orientation to be held online due to novel coronavirus pandemic," https://www.dailytarheel.com/article/2020/04/orientation-online-0414, by Preston Fore “Coronavirus extends uncertainty of study abroad programs into the fall semester,” https://www.dailytarheel.com/article/2020/04/fall-study-abroad-covid-0416 , by Anthony Howard “Meet the students and volunteers making face shields to donate during COVID-19," https://www.dailytarheel.com/article/2020/04/students-making-masks-0414, by Claire Tynan “UNC researchers collaborate on a potential pill to help treat COVID-19," https://www.dailytarheel.com/article/2020/04/antiviral-drug-0415, by Isabella Sherk “Here's a rundown of Wednesday's Zoom campus safety meeting,” by Sasha Schroeder If you enjoyed this episode, please consider leaving an honest rating and review. Have questions you'd like us to answer or have a suggestion for a story? Email us at: university@dailytarheel.com  

UNC graduate student workers have created a list of demands they would like University leaders to meet in response to COVID-19 conditions. Entitled “Demands for the Immediate Relief of Graduate Workers at UNC-CH,” the statement outlines a variety of graduate student worker concerns, including a 75 percent cost of living adjustment and additional time and funding to complete degrees. Host Evely Forte talks to DTH University staff writer Rachel Crumpler to break down these demands and to better understand how they will impact the UNC campus community. Episode produced by Allie Kelly. For more information on today's episode, visit https://www.dailytarheel.com/article/2020/04/grad-student-demands-0416. Other DTH stories mentioned in this episode: "New Student Orientation to be held online due to novel coronavirus pandemic," https://www.dailytarheel.com/article/2020/04/orientation-online-0414, by Preston Fore “Coronavirus extends uncertainty of study abroad programs into the fall semester,” https://www.dailytarheel.com/article/2020/04/fall-study-abroad-covid-0416 , by Anthony Howard “Meet the students and volunteers making face shields to donate during COVID-19," https://www.dailytarheel.com/article/2020/04/students-making-masks-0414, by Claire Tynan “UNC researchers collaborate on a potential pill to help treat COVID-19," https://www.dailytarheel.com/article/2020/04/antiviral-drug-0415, by Isabella Sherk “Here's a rundown of Wednesday's Zoom campus safety meeting,” by Sasha Schroeder If you enjoyed this episode, please consider leaving an honest rating and review. Have questions you’d like us to answer or have a suggestion for a story? Email us at: university@dailytarheel.com  

Chrystal McDowell, Assistant Director of Student Affairs, talks about the upcoming Fall 2019 New Student Orientation and Welcome Week events

New Student Orientation is your chance to get settled in, register for classes and learn about allthe OilerNation resources you’ll be using. But most of all, it’s time to meet other new Oilers!Listen to Kobe and Ashley talk with Orientation Leader Emily Remark – they’ll give you all thedetails on what to expect there.2019 Orientation Schedule: http://epub.findlay.edu/OilerExperience2019(also available on the OilerMobile App)

Get the scoop on how to make the most of your time at new student orientation this summer. Join Katy and guest, Marisa Lacey, as they share what to expect from most college orientations, the 411 on things to take care of before you go, and their favorite strategies for getting the most value from the orientation experience. (originally aired June 10, 2018) Visit Our Free Resource Library: bit.ly/collegehoodstarterkit

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Orientation is more than just a time to register for classes and check out your dorm room. It's an opportunity to start connecting to your campus's community. In this episode, college success coach, Katy Oliveira shares three things she'd like you to accomplish at your new student orientation.  Figure out your life and use college to make it happen in the Life Lab. bit.ly/collegehoodlifelab

Dr. Marcella Runell Hall serves as the Vice President for Student Life and Dean of Students and Lecturer in Religion at Mount Holyoke College. Her roots at NYU began as a graduate student working with residential leadership. Marcella is the co-editor of a new book entitled UnCommon Bonds: Women Reflect on Race & Friendship with Kersha Smith; more resources can be foundL www.uncommonbondsbook.com. In the Division of Student Life, Marcella oversees Athletics, Residential Life, Health, Counseling, Religious & Spiritual Life, Community & Inclusion and Student Programs. She has co-created programs and initiatives such as the MoZone Diversity Peer Education program, Be Well Mount Holyoke, worked with her team to revamp New Student Orientation. Recently she developed and taught a first year seminar course on The Meaning of Friendship. Prior to coming to Mount Holyoke Marcella was the founding Co-director for the Of Many Institute for Multifaith Leadership at New York University with Yael Shy. She was also the recipient of the NYU 2013–2014 Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Faculty Award. The prestigious award recognizes faculty members who exemplify the spirit of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. through their excellent teaching, leadership, social justice work, and community building. Marcella served as the program advisor/founder for the minor in multifaith and spiritual leadership. Marcella has edited three books which focus on social justice curriculum, The Hip-Hop Education Guidebook: Volume 1 (2007) with Martha Diaz,

In this episode, Matt and Abbie interview a few incoming freshmen on new student orientation day.  Also, Matt and Victoria reflect on their orientation day, their expectations and anticipations as incoming students, and their experiences now as second year (Matt) and third year (Victoria) students.

Freshman year is many people’s first taste of independence, making it both an exciting and terrifying experience. There have always been new students at Oklahoma State University who have felt this way as they try to navigate campus for the first time. Trying to make new friends and not stick out too much on campus are and always will be a little bit difficult. However, some experiences and traditions for freshmen have changed over the years, like the freshman beanie and Howdy Week, which really shaped the first year OSU experience for many people. This month on Amplified Oklahoma, we’re headed back to freshman year and looking at the good, the bad, the shared, and the unique experiences of freshmen at OSU. We’ll hear interview excerpts from the Oklahoma Oral History Research Program’s archives about the various realities of freshman year for many OSU alumni. Then, we’ll talk with Palvih Bhana, the assistant director of the office of New Student Orientation and Enrollment, about the office’s role in helping incoming freshmen prepare for their first year experiences. Amplified Oklahoma is a production of the Oklahoma Oral History Research Program at the Oklahoma State University Library. Show notes: https://library.okstate.edu/news/podcast/episode-28-freshman-year

Jake, Carson, and Joseph discuss the 'extreme sport' of summer homework procrastination, and the last few days of relaxation before the start of school. They are then joined by LHS senior (9:00), Gracie Mefford, to talk about goals for their upcoming senior year and their remaining to-do's for the college application and selection process. They also talk about New Student Orientation and the mentoring program at Leavenworth High School.

Get the scoop on how to make the most of your time at new student orientation this summer. Join Katy and guest, Marisa Lacey, as they share what to expect from most college orientations, the 411 on things to take care of before you go, and their favorite strategies for getting the most value from the orientation experience. To get even more help with college visit www.collegehoodadvice.com.

Do you have the call of God on your life? Are you looking for a Bible College that is full of the Presence of God? Are you looking for a place where the Holy Spirit is given full control to move as He sees fit? Tonight I am going to be speaking about three awesome Colleges: The River Bible Inistitute. The River School of Worship and The River School Of Governement. This is not just a school for those who are called to the Five Fold Ministry it is also for those who want a closer walk with God and a deeper understanding of the Holy Bible. New Student Orientation begins Tuesday January 3rd, 2017 at 9:00s.m. It is NOT too late to register. Call 813-971-9999 and ask for RBI or log onto one of the below websites.  River Bible Espaniol also available.  http://www.riverbibleinstitute.com  http://www.riverschoolofworship.com  http://www.riverschoolofgovernment.com http://www.revival.com If you have any prayer requests, testimonies, comments, or questions feel free to email us at firetalkradio2@yahoo.com   Please Follow us on our Home Page at http://www.blogtalkradio.com/firetalkradio2   Check out and Like our Facebook page at  https://www.facebook.com/FireTalkRadio2 Thanks for joinning me on Fire Talk Radio  :)  ALL music played with permission from Artist.  ALL RIGHTS RESERVED DISCLAIMER: THE COMMENTS AND OPINIONS EXPRESSED DURING COMMERCIALS DO NOT NECESSARILY REFLECT THAT OF MYSELF OR MY CHRISTIAN BELIEFS. ESPECIALLY THE NEW ADS PROMOTING CONSUMPTION OF ALCOHOL. 

Trent is one of RDC's living legends. He is also a mastermind behind Open House, New Student Orientation, & Convocation - 3 big events that touch many students lives. Contact: Trent.Rix@rdc.ab.ca www.toby4ward.com #GetInvolvedHero

When students at IU Bloomington head back to campus, Melanie Payne and her team are there to help them. Payne is the senior associate director of First Year Experience and the director of New Student Orientation, and she joins Through the Gates this week to share exactly how she makes the move-in experience a good one for all of the new Hoosiers heading to school for the first time. #chroniclesofiu

Welcome to the first episode of CS Radio, the official podcast of The University of Pennsylvania Career Services office. Each Monday, your hosts A. Mylene Kerschner and J. Michael DeAngelis will discuss a new topic from the world of Career Services, highlight important and interesting upcoming programing and bring special guests into the studio to discuss their own career paths. This week’s episode, “Discovery,” looks at the broad topic of career exploration. Special guest David Fox, Director of New Student Orientation and Academic Initiatives, tells us about this year’s academic theme, The Year of Discovery, and about his own varied career as academic administrator, lecturer and performing arts critic. We’re also joined by Barbara Hewitt, Senior Associate Director of Career Services to talk about self-assessments and career inventories. One note, due to some technical difficulties, we’re a little late in posting the episode, so some of the events highlighted in this week’s episode have already passed. We apologize for any confusion

Alexander Nemerov, the Carl and Marilynn Thoma Provostial Professor in the Arts and Humanities, offers the New Student Orientation first lecture on the purpose of a liberal education and how students will become more than their major.

Welcome to another episode of LIFE WORK BALANCES! Today I sit down with Brian McDonald, Director of New Student Orientation and Parent Programs as Rutgers University. Brian and I met up at San Diego Comic Con, where he was presenting a panel with past guest Alfred Day, and he was really excited about doing an […]

The importance of the Word of God is always to challenge our way of thinking so that our minds might be transformed.

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